Another VMS8 bug

Eugenia wrote on 7/18/2007, 1:46 PM
I upgraded my RAM last weekend to 3 GB specifically so I can better use VMS, and *then* I installed my purchased VMS8-plat copy. Here's what I get now: Windows can use and utilize 3 GB of RAM, but VMS8 can only see 2 GB. Here's proof:
http://gnomefiles.org/files/ram.jpg

This can have a bad influence in the way the application deals with heavy HDV projects because it might think that it ran out of memory while it hasn't, and bail out. I don't think that 2 GB RAM is a limitation of VMS compared to Vegas either, because simply, some HDV amateur projects are so heavy that putting a cap on 2 GBs would be criminal.

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 7/18/2007, 1:54 PM
ok, ignore the above. Apparently all windows 32bit apps can't use more than 2 gb anyway, so we are ok. What vegas does is correct. Thankfully, the extra GB of ram can be used by Windows itself, so we are all good, giving 2 GB free to Vegas.

But clearly at this point 64-bit Windows will really start to be a must-have.... at least for HD video editing.
Chienworks wrote on 7/18/2007, 2:46 PM
Actually, Vegas makes very little use of RAM when adding video or audio events. The only time the RAM usage is heavy is when using large still images. I've created projects using several hours of video files and still had editing and rendering running perfectly fine with only 256MB of RAM.
Eugenia wrote on 7/18/2007, 2:55 PM
It is not the same here. Each time I add HDV clips to the bin (without adding most of them to the timeline yet), the RAM gets high up, at around 1.3 GB of overall RAM usage. Windows XP loads clean at around 350 MBs of RAM here, so the rest 1 GB is used by Vegas with HDV. I have observed that it is using about 25-30 MBs of RAM per HDV clip added to the media bin (not to the timeline). Things have gone a bit better on VMS8 regarding this compared to VMS7, though, just not incredibly better. On iMovie you don't lose so much RAM by adding new clips to the media placeholder (no more than 1 MB per clip I think, just enough for the thumbnail and reference files).

Not sure if it's not the case with DV video instead on Vegas though.