Stephen Mann
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“Vista crashes”… Why am I not surprised?
What program are you trying to open the file with? I have always used VLC Media player – it plays anything. Well, almost.
Steve Mann
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I wouldn’t know, I have never used the trimmer. I find it *much* faster to just edit on the timeline.
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I use Videotagger Premium to make all of my scrolling credits. I don’t know if they have a trial version, but the program is something like $30. I set up my credits in MS Excel spreadsheet and import them into Videotagger. Videotagger also allows me to place a JPEG between sections.
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Is your laptop running on battery? Mine, a Sony dual-core, slows the processor to 1GHz to “save the battery”. When I plug in the power supply, it goes back to full speed.
Because of the way that Vegas “edits” I really doubt that we will ever see GPU support for preview. This is a non-destructive editor. Everything you do on the timeline is recorded in the veg file. Preview is a frame-by-frame reconstruction of those instructions in the veg file. Very processor intensive. You won’t see any GPU acceleration because there is no frame to process in the GPU until the processor has generated it.
This is speculation on my years of experience in a former life as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. If anyone has any material facts to the contrary, I am all ears.
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If it’s in Project Overview, then it will ask for it when you load the DAR file.
Steve Mann
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You can install both, (32- and 64-bit) on the same PC.
Steve Mann
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I’ve never done a BIOS update. If your hardware worked with Vista, then it should be OK for windows 7.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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It seems that you’re doing everything right, but first, my stock essay on memory:
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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 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 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. If you have no page file and a program wants to commit some for itself, your PC will crash.
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. Windows supports up to 16 paging files, where each must be on a separate volume, so if you have more than one internal disk drive you could also try enabling a Paging File on your second hard-disk.
———–From your description, I would first suspect driver software, particularly the ATI video card driver. I have the ATI FirePro V3700 (FireGL) and the default driver that comes with Windows had problems when I installed Win 7. 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.)
Next, you haven’t installed any driver packs, have you? Driver packs tend to do bad things to the better drivers that Windows or Vegas install.
Hope this helps.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“For an exceptional chroma keyer look at Boris Continuum Complete 7 Chroma Keyer. It can be purchased separately as a continuum unit.”
I’ve never tried BCC because of the huge up-front cost, but I’ve seen something else described as a “BCC Unit”. It that a stand-alone product or is it an add-on to BCC?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Screenshot?
Without seeing it, I suspect that your subject is being lit with green light reflected from your screen.
Vegas Chromakey is not he best – I use the NewBlue FX Chromakey because it has spill control.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com