14 Years of Vegas and Dynamic Ram Preview

Teetime wrote on 11/12/2020, 11:45 AM

I have been using Vegas Pro since version 7. My video editing over the past 5 or so years has been pretty sporadic so I stayed with version 12. I recently upgraded from 12 to 18 and I'm impressed with the many additions to the product. But one thing really puzzles me... as far as I can remember Dynamic Ram Preview has been a frequent topic of discussion throughout the past 14 or so years. I bring this up because I am editing a complex animation that uses track motion on 45 tracks. I first created this in Vegas 12 on an old Dell i7 processor. I'm now Vegas 18 with a much faster processor and gpu, yet when I attempted to render this 14 second clip it would never complete... until I changed Dynamic Ram Preview from the default 200 MB to 0. I recall people having to do that many years ago, perhaps all the way back to version 7. My questions are:

1. Why is Vegas so sensitive to this setting?
2. If, as it seems, the advice is frequently to set it to 0, why isn't that the default setting?

While I'm at it, I believe there used to be a setting to tell Vegas to release files when Vegas loses focus, making it possible to use Vegas and Photoshop side by side for update (PS) and preview (VP). I can't seem to find that setting anywhere - is it still around?

Thanks for your insights!

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j-v wrote on 11/12/2020, 12:11 PM

1. Why is Vegas so sensitive to this setting?

Probably there are a lot of users at who the refreshment of their memory goes too slow and therefore it should be better not to use a certain amount of reserved memory during rendering when Dyn Ram Preview cannot being used.

2. If, as it seems, the advice is frequently to set it to 0, why isn't that the default setting?

Because it is an extra step to reserve memory when that option in previewing is being used.
When someone never use it, like many users, you can now set it yourself to 0 and afterwards stays on that amount.

While I'm at it, I believe there used to be a setting to tell Vegas to release files when Vegas loses focus, making it possible to use Vegas and Photoshop side by side for update (PS) and preview (VP). I can't seem to find that setting anywhere - is it still around?

Maybe this one?

john_dennis wrote on 11/12/2020, 12:45 PM

@Teetime

I like your new moniker.

Teetime wrote on 11/12/2020, 3:13 PM

Maybe this one?

Well, duh... right in front of my eyes. But to my defense, I was looking for a setting that is NOT checked. It IS checked in my preferences but Vegas is NOT releasing the files when it loses focus. I have to close the project before Photoshop can save a PSD that is in my Vegas project. It is very annoying.

Teetime wrote on 11/12/2020, 3:17 PM

@john_dennis Thanks, I was never successful bringing over my old Sony threads which were under "Teetime" so since I am from NC I thought this was the best I could do for continuity. Is that what you are referring to?

vkmast wrote on 11/12/2020, 3:28 PM

@Teetime you might like to know that the posting history ( all 1500+ of them) of your previous "moniker" is still available on the forum.

Teetime wrote on 11/13/2020, 2:39 PM

@vkmast is there a way for me to merge my "monikers" under one?

Teetime wrote on 11/13/2020, 2:41 PM

Maybe this one?

Well, duh... right in front of my eyes. But to my defense, I was looking for a setting that is NOT checked. It IS checked in my preferences but Vegas is NOT releasing the files when it loses focus. I have to close the project before Photoshop can save a PSD that is in my Vegas project. It is very annoying.

Actually, I can't just close the project - I have to close down Vegas before PS will save the PSD in my Vegas project.

vkmast wrote on 11/13/2020, 2:53 PM

Mergings have been done AFAIK.

@BuzzDee or a(nother) "Magix person", please see the merging request above in case you could still help @Teetime

Teetime wrote on 11/16/2020, 7:11 AM

@BuzzDee, if you are able to do this I would prefer to have my original forum name of Teetime on all my posts. Thanks!

BuzzDee wrote on 11/17/2020, 2:22 AM

Mergings arent available anymore. I swapped the Names, so you can use your desired Name "Teetime" now. Your old Postings show up with Name "TeetimeNC". For obvious reasons two accounts cant have the same Name.