Stephen Mann
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1GB? I am amazed that you can even run Windows.
Your PC is seriously underpowered for video editing. What’s your second drive, 10Gb? That’s almost nothing.
That’s like crossing the ocean in a rowboat. You can do it but it will be slow and painful.
Steve Mann
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Generally, your best plan is to encode the edited video to the same specs as the source file.
(BTW – everything on the timeline in Vegas is an event – not a clip.)
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Just received my new copy of V10 in the mail and uninstalled the 10 demo”[/i]Oops – that was your mistake. The only difference from the demo version is the serial number. Just apply the serial number and you’re finished.
Now you have a mess in the registry. Can you go to a restore point before installing the demo? That may clean it up.
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“I have 1536 pagin file.”
I don’t understand. Is this the size of your pagefile in Mb? It seems small.
How much RAM do you have, and is drive-C the only hard disk in your PC?Steve Mann
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Does no one search the forum archives?
I am repeating myself, again, but here’s my explanation on memory:
Low Memory or Out of Memory does not mean “Not enough RAM”, though adding RAM can sometimes fix a “Low Memory” waning. A “Low Memory” warning usually means that you have exceeded your commit limit. You need either a bigger page file, more physical memory, or both.
One of the biggest sources of confusion over Windows memory usage is the whole concept of virtual memory compared to physical memory. Windows organizes memory, physical and virtual, into pages. Each page is a fixed size (typically 4 KB). To make things more confusing, there’s also a page file (sometimes referred to as a paging file and dynamic RAM). Many Windows users still think of this as a swap file, a bit of disk storage that is only called into play when you absolutely run out of physical RAM. In versions of Windows starting with Vista, that is no longer the case. The most important thing to realize is that physical memory and the page file added together equal the commit limit, which is the total amount of virtual memory that all processes can reserve and commit.
All Windows since XP (and Unix/Linux for that matter) always wants to have page space. Always. Programs (including drivers and codecs) like to and are allowed to pre-allocate as much memory as they want. Even if they are never ever going to actually use it. Sometimes those programs properly deallocate memory, sometimes they don’t (resulting in “memory leak”). Sometimes, programs leave parts of themselves in allocated memory just in case you are going to run that program again. (MS Word, Excel and other Office programs are particularly adept at this). If you have no page file and a program wants to commit some for itself, your PC will crash (AKA, BSOD, or Blue Screen of Death).
Paging file configuration is in the System properties, which you can get to by typing “sysdm.cpl” into the Run dialog, clicking on the Advanced tab, clicking on the Performance Options button, clicking on the Advanced tab (this is really advanced), and then clicking on the Change button. I would suggest a value of 1.5X the currently allocated value. The old advice of 2X or 3X your RAM is, well, old advice when a few MB of RAM was normal. The largest paging file that you can select in Windows is 4,095 megabytes (MB).
Also, Windows supports up to 16 paging files, but each must be on a separate volume, so if you have more than one internal disk drive you could try enabling a Paging File on your second hard-disk. DO NOT put a paging file on an external drive because if it’s not present when Windows boots, then Windows will crash.
For more information, see https://support.microsoft.com/kb/237740 and https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2267427
Steve Mann
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As I’ve said before, unless you can provide step-by-step instructions for someone else to independently reproduce your issue, then the problem is more likely a problem in your PC, not in Vegas.
If Tech Support cannot reproduce your issue, they can’t fix it. And they aren’t there to fix your PC.
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“I can most definitely reproduce this bug. ”
But, can anyone else?
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I’ve got one of those – it’s for copying A/V to the iPod, not for video capture.
The AVDC-300 is the pinnacle (pun intended) of the analog to firewire capture devices. It’s expensive but the TBC is worth the extra $$.
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“Totally reproduceable”
I edit in Vegas multicam every day – mostly with two HDV cameras and sometimes with a DV camera for B roll. (The most I’ve done is 6-cameras, all HDV). I can count on one hand the number of times that I have crashed Vegas in the past five years, and they were all operator-induced.
If your problem is truly reproducible, then tell us the steps needed to make it happen. If others can reproduce the same problem, then you have found a bug. And Sony can fix it. Otherwise, it’s your PC or the media that has the problem.
“. Boom. Crash and start again.”
The last time I had a computer go “boom” was about ten years ago when someone had set the PSU line to 220-Volts. (Well we did have some Hayworth cubicle walls that would randomly burn out their AC power connection, and take out every PC plugged into it). So other than “boom”, how does the crash present? Any error messages? Any ‘low memory’ warnings? Does the program close, or does the PC shut-down? Does it only happen with a specific media event (everything on the Vegas timeline is an event – not a clip) or file type?
Just trying to help…
Steve Mann
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I am not familiar with the “Pinnacle Black Box”. Is it the DV-500? I can’t imagine why it couldn’t work with Vegas as long as you have the latest drivers.
What are you capturing from?
Also, as John said, the AVDC series is still the best.Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com