Editing and Rendering Issues

hummerthug wrote on 12/9/2004, 3:11 PM
I have no idea what the heck is wrong with my computer but I used to be running a 1.6 ghz amd processor with 256mb ddr memory and the only problem I had was that I couldn't view complex transitions or video fx very well, and it took a reallllllly long time to render files. Recently I switched my memory and video cards for 1gb of ddr memory and a 256mb graphics card by nvidia. For the first week or so I could view all the media I was editing at 29.97fps at draft quality without any problems. Also when I rendered the files vegas would use about 800 out of 1000 mb of my memory, so it would pop the files out real fast. Now for some reason, only sometimes can I view the transitions and/or it will all of a sudden try to show them but get jittery and just skip over them. This is causing a serious problem because my transitions are ending up in the wrong place since I can't "see" them. Also, it is back to rendering the files real slow, almost as if the memory didn't exist. And for some reason if I minimize the program and try to maximize it again, vegas freezes up and I have to manually close it and restart in order for it to work...this is a problem because popups from the internet come on all the time and screw me over. My computer's properties dialogue says that my memory and processor speed are fine. When I’m rendering and I check the task manager the program is now usually using less than 60mb of the memory which accounts for the slowed render process. My real problem is that I’m working on a pictorial video that’s due in about a weeks time and these issues are causing some major problems as I find myself having to go back and blindly edit the spots that need correction. What do you think? Any feedback would be GREATLY appreciated!

Comments

DGrob wrote on 12/9/2004, 4:02 PM
Are you saying that this problem cropped up out of nowhere, with absolutely no changes to anything in your system? What's the OS? Darryl
hummerthug wrote on 12/9/2004, 5:41 PM
there have been no changes that I am aware of. It seems like it just went from working properly to not working right at all. My operating system is Windows XP. I uninstalled the program and re-installed it but that seemed to accomplish nothing.
TielBr wrote on 12/9/2004, 6:16 PM
I've noticed this too, and also have an nVida video adapter and 1.0GB RAM...

I just thought possibly I was just trying to create more complex projects lately. But even stills take a while to render as MPEG2, and I have stepped my preview from "Preview" to "Draft" Which sux, and it's still jittery at times.

I know this is not answering your question, but I figured more responces would be warranted if many of us are seeing the same.

My most recent project is also a pictorial, which contains SEVERAL layered video tracks to facilitate a background immage composited at 50%, text oveerlay, and 3 additional images keyed overtop w/ video motion accros the bottom. (I'm not moving them, just staggering them)

My Pics are scanned at 600 DPI to facilitate really tight zooms with pan/crop to boot...

Both of these factors is what I attributed my slowness to, but it never sped back up when I try to do some simple stuff....
Brian
hummerthug wrote on 12/9/2004, 7:00 PM
Well thanks for the response because for the past week I have felt completely alone on this issue...at least I know Im not the only one with these types of problems.
MJhig wrote on 12/9/2004, 7:45 PM
this is a problem because popups from the internet come on all the time and screw me over

First and foremost this tells me you are infested with spyware robbing your resources causing your PC to creep as it all the while sends data about you to the hackers/marketers.

Read thoroughly, carefully, several times here;

THE PARASITE FIGHT

IE-SPYAD

HOST file

Secondly, rendering is much more dependent on CPU speed not RAM.

Thirdly, unless you absolutely have to be on-line while running Vegas, either don't connect or if you have cable, disable the adapter in Device Manager plus shut down all other background processes that are not essential. This takes research/knowledge, don't just start shutting down things in Task Manager you don't know for sure can be terminated.

As a starting point if you have more than... say 7 icons in the systray. Go into those unnecessary program's options and look for the setting to stop them from loading at startup and running in the background.

MJ

Steve Mann wrote on 12/9/2004, 10:15 PM
this is a problem because popups from the internet come on all the time and screw me over

Your video editing PC shouldn't be on the internet. You leave yourself to all kinds of CPU robbing crap, including normal net polling.

You will see a performance increase if your video media is on it's own separate hard disk drive.

Steve
hummerthug wrote on 12/9/2004, 10:26 PM
Yes I agree...Up until a few weeks ago I had NEVER had the internet on this computer, yet it was still slow. Sometime after getting the internet and also installing Norton antivirus did I notice the decreased changes
TielBr wrote on 12/10/2004, 2:23 AM
Get rid of Norton.... It eats CPU time like you wouldn't believe. You just can't afford to spare CPU time to a resource hungry program like that while rendering.

Also, someone posted above that you should disable your network card,... I took that a few steps further with some success. While I can not disable my network card due to networked drives that I have some media on. (which I copy to the local drive before rendering) and created a seccond hardware profile option at the boot prompt that is speciffically for D-A/V rendering, and I've enabled only the hardware that is absolutely necessary. It seems to be helping a great deal.

Thanks for that Heads up... I guess I don't need 4 graphics adapters for editing, 2 will do. ammong other things.