First Large project in vegas

Cooldraft wrote on 11/19/2004, 12:52 PM

I am working on my first large project (nearly 1000 events) and Vegas is acting sluggish (even when trying to trim by dragging the side of an event is sloooow). Is this a bad thing, should I try to break it up into several projects?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 11/19/2004, 1:15 PM

You shouldn't be experiencing this unless you are low on resources. Should be fairly snappy. I'm working at this very moment on a 6 hour timeline, well over 1K events. Still pretty snappy, even with lots of generated media.
What is your buffer set to? Check your system resources, see what's happening there. Amount of RAM?

RalphM wrote on 11/19/2004, 1:18 PM

Personally, I find that with very large projects (usually slide shows) I can introduce unwanted changes downstream if I'm not exceedingly careful.

Breaking it up into logical groupings helps both me and my machine.

johnmeyer wrote on 11/19/2004, 4:40 PM

I, too, get a slowdown with long projects. However, the length of the project has nothing to do with it; the real killer is the number of events. At 1,000 events, you are going to notice a slow down. Also, does your project include still photos, and if so, what resolution are they? I ran into this with a fairly short (five minute) project that only had 50-70 events, but it was all photos and I hadn't bothered to reduce the resolution, so they were all 2000x3000. I corresponded with tech support and found out that Vegas opens each of these in RAM, so I was taking up about 20 MB for each photo. I "only" have 512 MB RAM.

So, more RAM, fewer events, and lower res stills all will help your situation, as will the suggestion already made of breaking up your project into smaller chunks. Unfortunately, If you are going to DVD, DVD Architect still have some navigation gotchas if you render each segment to its own MPEG file and then combine these files in DVDA. If instead you render to an intermediate DV AVI file, then line these up in Vegas and render into one MPEG-2 for DVDA, you can get around this problem, but it is an extra step, and you lose a little color information for anything generated by Vegas, or which didn't originate as DV video.

Cooldraft wrote on 11/21/2004, 8:37 PM

No they are all video clips, no stills. I started a new veg, it was going fine and now I am already up to 442 events and noticing a slowdown again. SPOT, sorry, but how do I check the Items that you refer to, are they Windows settings or in Vegas?

Cooldraft wrote on 11/21/2004, 8:41 PM

I have 512 of memory. Anyone else having problems editing messages in the forum?

Spot|DSE wrote on 11/21/2004, 9:55 PM

512 meg of RAM isn't gonna go far with 442 events. Assuming each event is half a meg...plus the Vegas/OS overhead of at least 128K...Stills will kill you without lots of RAM.