Stephen Mann
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Overkill rarely fixes anything and sometimes makes things worse. Microsoft doesn’t recommend increasing the pagefile to more than 3 x RAM, and the maximum allowed size for any one instance of pagefile.sys on a machine is limited to 4GB.
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.
Are you running Norton, by any chance?
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How big is your page file?
Windows since XP (and Unix/Linux for that matter) always wants to have page space. Always. Programs 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. Sometimes, programs leave parts of themselves in allocated memory just in case you are going to run that program again.
System/virtual memory and RAM are NOT the same thing. RAM is your physical chip-based memory. Total System Memory is the blending of real RAM and disk based page space. The kernel takes care of swapping memory pages between RAM and page space as fast as possible and with some adaptive intelligence so that programs are executing from real RAM and are not stuck waiting for their memory pages to be brought in from page space.
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Predicting the bitrate to fit the DVD before encoding is not possible. You can guess but you can’t tell how much the encoder will need to compress the video without… encoding.
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Also, if you are going to use the DVDA Architect templates, be sure to encode the audio in .ac3 format.
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Is your PC fast enough to play the preview? If I recall, V10 automatically degrades the preview resolution to let the processor keep up.
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Everything after “access violation” is of value only to the original programmer, and then only in controlled conditions.
We have all seen access violations occur since we took ownership of our first x86 PC’s. The infamous “Bluescreen”, application crashes, it doesn’t really matter, access violations are all over the place. For any of you that remember the good old Windows 9x days, a General Protection Fault and Invalid Page Fault are basically the same thing (and a segmentation fault too). To many people, the phrase ‘access violation’ is synonymous with “crash”. But what exactly is an access violation?
To put it simply, an access violation occurs any time an area of memory is accessed that the program doesn’t have permission to access. This can be due to bad code, faulty RAM or even a bad device driver. It really doesn’t matter who the culprit is, the root issue is the same.
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You have provided so little information to go on. What kind of tapes? what kind of camcorder? And the big question, what capture hardware?
You say that you connected the composite video and left-channel audio to your, PC? I am unaware of any PC with capture hardware built-in. The yellow-red-white plugs on your PC are analog video and stereo audio outputs.
Last, the capture program is looking for a Firewire connection to a camera.
So, if you provide more information, we may be able to help you.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“Why can’t I get the Video track over Vegas?”
Because you don’t have the right codec installed.
What happens when you drag the mov file to the timeline?
Steve Mann
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Most of the “stuff” is marketing BS. Just because HP doesn’t bother to list the same “stuff” in their specs doesn’t mean they don’t have it also.
Most of the “stuff” you will never use or miss if it’s not there.
Follow rule number one – get the fastest processor that you can afford.
You can add larger hard drives any time.
You can add RAM any time.
You can upgrade your Power Supply (PSU) any time.If I had a $1450 budget, I would be getting an i7-950 processor, a solid-state HDD for my system drive (usually drive C), and a 2GB drive for my documents. 8GB or RAM, a dual-head nVidia GPU and two 24-inch displays. I would want the motherboard to have at least two empty PCI-Express x1 slots and no less than one IDE slot for legacy hardware (though IDE slots are getting rare). Most MB’s come with USB2.0 and a couple of 3.0 ports. Some also have eSATA ports on the back. Nice to have but not essential. Firewire would be good. On-board Gigabit networking is nice but most home and small office networks are 100Mbit. On-board RAID is one of those nice fluff stuffs that I would never use. All pre-built PCs come with Norton Antivirus installed. (As well as a lot of other software that has earned the title “crapware”. Look for a free utility called “decrapify” to remove most of it before it can pollute your PC.) Never use Norton on an editing PC. Norton is a recess hog and degrades your PC performance. Microsoft Security Essentials is a far superior solution.
I would likely start with this:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.591995By the time I add a case, power supply, disk drives and a Blu-Ray/DVD burner the total would probably be around $1200.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com