Stephen Mann
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I’m not denying that you see a problem, or that it is not endemic to Vegas. Just that I’ve never heard of anyone saying that it’s a problem. What I would like to understand is, why is it a problem? I am quite happy if my preview is color-accurate, plays at full frame rate and is frame accurate for FX and compositing in preview. Beyond that, I couldn’t care less that there’s some compromise of the display IN PREVIEW.
It’s the final product that I would be critical of. I would not be happy if my delivered product was pixellated, but I don’t deliver the preview.
Keep in mind that the problem could be in Windows, not Vegas. Vegas uses the Video for Windows DLLs (Msvfw32.dll and Msvideo.dll) for preview. I don’t think that Premiere uses VFW calls which would explain the difference you see.
Steve Mann
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No. hat would be like expecting a line of cars to move faster because someone in the back is tailgating the car in front of him. The program will use resources as it needs them. And no faster.
CPU usage is a poor metric for measuring program efficiency.
All that a low CPU usage means is that the processor is not the bottleneck in your workflow. A 100% usage means that your processor is too slow for the task at hand.What else are you running. (Don’t say nothing because even when there are no tasks running, there’s dozens or more processes running in the background). Anti-virus programs are a huge resource hog – especially Norton. A browser consumes a lot of RAM and processor time. Any Microsoft Office program stays in Ram even after closing the program.
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I don’t know if I would call it a problem. It’s called a PREview for a reason. It’s probably been there all along but no one I know expects theater-quality output on a preview screen. Most people are happy to get 29.97 FPS preview during transitions and really don’t notice or care that the preview image is slightly pixellated.
How does the final product look?
Steve Mann
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Generally, the default parameters are the best. If you never plan to use RAM preview (Shift B), then you can set the preview RAM to zero. This allows the program to use more. But since you already have 16Gb of RAM, I doubt that you would see any difference by changing from the default.
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Are both these shots from the same monitor screen? If so, then you are simply looking at the resizing of the frame to fit the window dimensions. In other words, you are recompressing already compressed images.
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Reinstalling Vegas is no big deal. All you lose is your Screen Layouts.
Steve Mann
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[Mike Kujbida] “Continue to hold the CTRL & SHIFT keys until the program is fully up and loaded.”
This is not needed because as soon as you double-click the icon with CTRL+SHIFT pressed, you get a dialog box from Vegas asking if you want to reset the program parameters.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com