3 hours and 30 minutes to render 4 minutes of MPG video with an MP3 soundtrack? That's true in Vegas 4d and 5.0b.
OK, more detail. My wife and I have used Vegas 4 for a year and a half, for business and for fun. (She's one of very few court reporters that can put a client's legal deposition video on DVD, if they want.) Vegas 4 has always performed wonderfully, and we have a lot of experience with it. We've used it with consistent success to edit and render video from digital captures, downloads and backups from DVDs that we own.
My office recently bought two copies of Vegas 5, on my recommendation, as we want to start including video on our web site. At home, I installed it to a different drive, and updated it to 5.0b. The first thing I tried was a downloaded .wmv music video, with a 128 bit .mp3 of the same tune. V5 took 1.5 hours to render a 3 1/2 minute MPEG out of that. I thought that that was odd, but hey, V4 couldn't even deal with that same .wmv.
Last evening, I decided to run some simple tests, to quantify whether or not there was a difference in rendering speed between V4 and V5. My system is a P4 1.8 GHz CPU, 512 megs RAMBUS RAM, and plenty of hard drive space. The temp folder is set to a directory on the biggest drive. V4 and V5 are installed on separate, physical drives. No "power saving" features are active, and I run Windows XP Professional, SP1, not 2.
For my "rendering race," I rebooted the machine, and ran no software but Zone Alarm and Norton Antivirus, letting Vegas 4 have first crack at all the resources. (Remember, I've been using it this way for 18 months.) I selected 4 minutes of a 5-minute MPEG, and mixed an MP3 tune with the soundtrack. From a lot of experience doing similar rendering for home movie sorts of applications, I expected that rendering would take about 8 to 10 minutes. Rendering was not completed by the time I went to bed, two hours later. During the night, rendering completed, having taken 3 hours and 30 minutes. That's a whopping difference. The only configuration change to the machine was the installation of Vegas 5.
This morning before work, and after a fresh reboot, I opened the V4 project in Vegas 5, saved it to a different project file name, and started rendering it. Checking with my wife at home, the same 4-minutes of video and sound had been rendering for 2 hours, 43 minutes, with 43 minutes remaining. It's heading for an almost identical finish time.
What the heck is going on? V4 used to work wonderfully, and I confidently talked my supervisor into plowing $1600 into V5. Installing V5 *breaks* V4? Do they not coexist well on the same box, even if in different directories?
Hypothesis: V4 and V5 share some element used for rendering, and it's not working very well. Where does that Sony Mainstream MPEG plugin live? Can I replace it with the V4 one? Is there an updated version of it, somewhere?
Variables and available testing resources:
There is a remote chance that the MPEG video I've been messing with is somehow "goofy." I should work with a strip of video that I've already rendered in the past, with no hassles. Even better, so that my results can be reproduced, would be a video that everyone has access to. Another thread mentioned an .avi called Tsunami. Where can I get that?
My older machine at home is 1.8 GHz, 512 megs of RAM, Windows XP Pro SP1, and has Vegas 4 and 5.
Our newer machine at home, the one that my wife uses for legal video work, is 3.0 GHz HT, 1 GB DDR RAM, and we store our video on a 320 GB SATA array. It has only Vegas 4d on it, and I will avoid doing anything to mess that machine up.
My computer in the office has a 1.9GHz CPU, only 256 megs of RAM (more on the way) and has only Vegas 5.0b on it. All CPUs are Intel.
Suggestions?
If I uninstall Vegas 5 on the older machine at home, that will still leave the shared MPEG plugin sitting somewhere. Where would I look to wipeout all Vegas files and registry settings, to reinstall V4 cleanly? I'd rather have V5 working properly, of course, but if I could get back to where I was, that would be OK.
Eagerly awaiting bright ideas from other users,
Peyton
OK, more detail. My wife and I have used Vegas 4 for a year and a half, for business and for fun. (She's one of very few court reporters that can put a client's legal deposition video on DVD, if they want.) Vegas 4 has always performed wonderfully, and we have a lot of experience with it. We've used it with consistent success to edit and render video from digital captures, downloads and backups from DVDs that we own.
My office recently bought two copies of Vegas 5, on my recommendation, as we want to start including video on our web site. At home, I installed it to a different drive, and updated it to 5.0b. The first thing I tried was a downloaded .wmv music video, with a 128 bit .mp3 of the same tune. V5 took 1.5 hours to render a 3 1/2 minute MPEG out of that. I thought that that was odd, but hey, V4 couldn't even deal with that same .wmv.
Last evening, I decided to run some simple tests, to quantify whether or not there was a difference in rendering speed between V4 and V5. My system is a P4 1.8 GHz CPU, 512 megs RAMBUS RAM, and plenty of hard drive space. The temp folder is set to a directory on the biggest drive. V4 and V5 are installed on separate, physical drives. No "power saving" features are active, and I run Windows XP Professional, SP1, not 2.
For my "rendering race," I rebooted the machine, and ran no software but Zone Alarm and Norton Antivirus, letting Vegas 4 have first crack at all the resources. (Remember, I've been using it this way for 18 months.) I selected 4 minutes of a 5-minute MPEG, and mixed an MP3 tune with the soundtrack. From a lot of experience doing similar rendering for home movie sorts of applications, I expected that rendering would take about 8 to 10 minutes. Rendering was not completed by the time I went to bed, two hours later. During the night, rendering completed, having taken 3 hours and 30 minutes. That's a whopping difference. The only configuration change to the machine was the installation of Vegas 5.
This morning before work, and after a fresh reboot, I opened the V4 project in Vegas 5, saved it to a different project file name, and started rendering it. Checking with my wife at home, the same 4-minutes of video and sound had been rendering for 2 hours, 43 minutes, with 43 minutes remaining. It's heading for an almost identical finish time.
What the heck is going on? V4 used to work wonderfully, and I confidently talked my supervisor into plowing $1600 into V5. Installing V5 *breaks* V4? Do they not coexist well on the same box, even if in different directories?
Hypothesis: V4 and V5 share some element used for rendering, and it's not working very well. Where does that Sony Mainstream MPEG plugin live? Can I replace it with the V4 one? Is there an updated version of it, somewhere?
Variables and available testing resources:
There is a remote chance that the MPEG video I've been messing with is somehow "goofy." I should work with a strip of video that I've already rendered in the past, with no hassles. Even better, so that my results can be reproduced, would be a video that everyone has access to. Another thread mentioned an .avi called Tsunami. Where can I get that?
My older machine at home is 1.8 GHz, 512 megs of RAM, Windows XP Pro SP1, and has Vegas 4 and 5.
Our newer machine at home, the one that my wife uses for legal video work, is 3.0 GHz HT, 1 GB DDR RAM, and we store our video on a 320 GB SATA array. It has only Vegas 4d on it, and I will avoid doing anything to mess that machine up.
My computer in the office has a 1.9GHz CPU, only 256 megs of RAM (more on the way) and has only Vegas 5.0b on it. All CPUs are Intel.
Suggestions?
If I uninstall Vegas 5 on the older machine at home, that will still leave the shared MPEG plugin sitting somewhere. Where would I look to wipeout all Vegas files and registry settings, to reinstall V4 cleanly? I'd rather have V5 working properly, of course, but if I could get back to where I was, that would be OK.
Eagerly awaiting bright ideas from other users,
Peyton