Stephen Mann
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Make sure that you are running on all CPU cores.
Run Vegas, start the Task Manager, find Vegas, right-click, go to process, right-click, set affinity, make sure “All Processors” is selected.Steve Mann
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As I said before, you can’t force any program to use more memory than it needs. I strongly suspect that this number is simply a set point to trigger an error message if you don’t have enough ram to run Vegas.
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“I know I could run a 1/4″ headphone out to my mic input of my video camera, but I’m afraid of hum since such a skinny cable could produce such.”
The size of the cable has nothing to do with hum, but the impedance mismatch will induce all kinds of noise. The headphone output is low impedance, 8- to 32-ohms, and the input circuitry in the camera is high impedance on the order of 15K ohms or more.
I use a matching transformer like this one:
This is a Radio Shack XLR Jack-to-1/4″ Plug Adapter/Transformer, Part Number: 274-016
For those who equate Radio Shack with cheap parts – these are made by Shure.However, I am usually disappointed with the quality of the sound from the house mixer. The house sound is adjusted for the seated audience, not for the video. I always have at least two sources of audio for any project.
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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 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 pagefile. 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. You can monitor the commit level of any running program in the Memory tab of the Resource Monitor (resmon).
Start the Task Manager, click on the “Processes” tab, then click on “Commit Size” to sort by size. This will show you which processes are memory hogs that you may be able to shut down.
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, 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. 64-bit Windows can having paging files that are up to 16TB in size and supports up to 16 paging files, where each must be on a separate volume.”
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://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx
Steve Mann
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Yes, you can render Vegas useless with the wrong settings in the “internals” menu. I wouldn’t know about reinstalling since I only install Vegas once.
Changing the RAM settings in the internals menu only, I suspect, change the setpoint where Vegas will give an error on startup.
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Actually, I have one, source long forgotten, that sounds like crap with phantom power. OK on battery, but crappy with phantom.
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YouTube likes Sony AVC and Vimeo likes MOV files. I use the free Avid DNxHD codec for Vimeo.
I am pretty sure that anything but HDV will keep the 4:2:2 colorspace.
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I forgot that you mentioned it in one of the earlier posts.
But you went from good to bad in most steps.HDV is 4:2:0 colorspace, so you’re throwing out some data right there. And Windows Media Player is simply crap. I don’t know what they do to the video, but try using the free VLC media player. That’s what most of us use.
As Steve Rhoden said above, what is your final delivery?
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“I’m always amazed at newscasters that do reports in hurricanes and by busy street corners where hardly any ambient noise can be heard.”
They use remarkably un-sensitive microphones. Get more than a couple of inches from their mouth and you can’t hear them. I have some “Singer” mics that are 1) cheap, and 2) unsensitive, but if you have seen singers screaming with the mic half inside their mouth you will understand where they are beneficial.
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You didn’t answer the last question – how are you viewing the output? DVD, PC, Projector?
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