can videos cause my other programs to crash??

jeremyhockey wrote on 3/10/2004, 2:32 PM

I've been using Vegas 4.0e for about a week now and saved alot of footage from my camcorder onto a second hard drive. Things were fine until I put them in Vegas and started to render the .veg projects as .avi and .mpeg files. Now, for some reason, my computer is VERY slow and the most mundane of tasks now take a long time and everything seems to freeze on me (not responding). It's very annoying and I'm wondering if all the videos are causing this. I've only used up about half the size of both of my hard drives. What's up??!
-Jeremy

Comments

Videomonster wrote on 3/10/2004, 2:54 PM

The only thing that I could think of that might help your slow computer get faster, is defraging both hard drives. You should defrag about once a month if your doing regular video editing on your computer....you probably already know that though...

-Videomonster

TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/10/2004, 3:42 PM

Also sounds like lots of temp files not being deleted. Check the temp folders.

AlanC wrote on 3/11/2004, 3:52 AM

Do you re-boot daily or is your pc on 24/7 ?

Some apps don't clean up after themselves so you need a re-boot to free up the memory.

riredale wrote on 3/11/2004, 4:02 PM

Rendering is just about the most intensive PC-hogging application there is. I've found that if I start a couple of instances of Vegas and then start them rendering, everything moves as slow as molasses unless I change the priority of the Vegas programs. In XP it's very simple to do. In Windows 9x you need a program to get into the settings.

Do you have XP?