Fps Dropping?

PunkDrummer wrote on 8/9/2004, 6:29 PM

Hey, i have a scene where one one side of the screen i have me spinning a drumstick and on the other side of the screen i am watching and nodding my head. I used just the rectangular cookie cutter (because it was same background) and when i play it it goes from 29.97 to like 10 or 9. How do i fix this? Thanks

-William

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busterkeaton wrote on 8/9/2004, 6:40 PM

William, Vegas adjusts the preview framerate according to how much computer power you have. When you start piling on effects and multiple tracks, if you computer can't keep up, your framerate drops. With previous-generation NLEs, you wouldn't be able to preview anything. You would just get black or big X on your screen. Vegas introduced what it called "graceful degradation" of preview. If the computer can keep up at 20 fps, it will, if can only keep up at 8 fps, it will do that. So you still get some previewing and it is often enough to show you what the effect will look like. This allows you to keep working and not have to render each effect.

When you render the project, you will get the proper framerate.

If you need to see what the final render will look like and your computer has a lot of RAM, you can hit Shift+B and Vegas will do a "RAM render" where it renders the image to RAM and you can preview it at full frame-rate

PunkDrummer wrote on 8/9/2004, 6:49 PM

Hey, thanks for the useful info. I didn't remember vegas does all this. It's quite a powerful program. Well, Later

-William