Stephen Mann
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The only bulwark against the massive compression in AVCHD is sheer bone
crushing-processor power and blazing fast disk throughput.Your processor is not the main problem here, your use of a single hard drive, however, is a performance-killer.
Laptop or desktop?
Steve Mann
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Define “Lag”.
Is the audio and video out of sync? Is the preview sluggish?
Do you only have the one hard-drive? This can be a real problem for previewing AVCHD as the disk head is constantly in motion servicing the editing program and the operating system requests at the same time.
Memory.
I am repeating myself, but here’s my canned reply 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
Hope this helps.
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?? Windows Script File ??
My only experience with “walk-on” video is a flash file (FLV) and a player that supports wmode=transparent.
Steve Mann
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I recommend running Driver Detective from https://www.drivershq.com/ (Actually a good plan is to run Driver Detective periodically. I doesn’t do anything to your installed drivers unless you tell it to.)
Steve Mann
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I bought a graphics card with a gig of ram on it
Makes no difference to Vegas.
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freezes on “Initializing Video Services.”
My webcam stopped working (turned on, but the screen was always black) about the same time Vegas did, but my webcam works again after simply restarting my computer.
If this doesn’t say that your video device driver is suspect, I don’t know what would.
(Just because you can see an image doesn’t mean that your video device driver is working.)
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If you are looking for this information in the manual or help files, all media on the timeline are “events”, not “clips”.
Steve Mann
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I am running three Dell 21-inchers. I would hate to go back to two, let alone one. The first two are run from a dual-head GPU and the third from a USB Display dongle. Since the USB display is processor-intensive, I put the mostly static windows there, like the Project Media and the Mixer windows.
I’ll probably add a fourth monitor when I upgrade to an i7 later this year.
Steve Mann
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MSE has been so reliable here for the past few months that it’s hard to believe that it’s from Microsoft.
It’s fast, it’s small and it’s no resource hog like Norton.
That’s two things that Microsoft has done well (MSE and Win 7).
Steve Mann
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that we all pay several hundred dollars for every time an update comes out
You must have missed the memo. I’ve never paid more than $150 for a Vegas Pro upgrade since Version 3.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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