I bought and installed VMS Platinum 7 on my Windows PC (P4 3.2 GHz HT, 2 GB RAM) based in part on the positive reviews it got; I have no issues w/ the video capture aspect of it (it can capture HDV footage from my Canon HV20 camcorder just fine). The "problems" begin when I attempt to open the saved footage (12 GB m2t file--I captured the entire tape to disk) in VMS--as soon as I single-click on the file in the VMS File Explorer, VMS seems to hang for around 5 minutes or so before it eventually responds to my actions...maybe because it attempts to read the entire 12 GB file in order to obtain its file properties? Then after all this--when I double-click said file so that I can open it, VMS hangs again for another 5 minutes or so before it eventually loads the entire file for me to edit/whatnot. Given all this, my question is...is all this normal? If not, then what would cause VMS to take forever (figuratively speaking) to open such a huge m2t file? I mean, it's one thing if it has to take time to open such a large file...but for VMS to take a long time to respond when all I did was select (i.e., single-click) the file? I don't know of any other program that I've personally used that exhibited similar issues just from my having selected a file...
FWIW--I don't have any other programs of significance running concurrently on my PC, all anti-spyware/virus utilities were disabled prior to running VMS, and AFAICT VMS is running at 95+% CPU utiliization.
And on top of all that, when I playback the as-yet unedited footage in the preview window, it plays back at a mere 9-10 fps...even with preview window sized at 320x240 and set to draft picture quality. In comparison, when I load it in Nero 7 using the Nero Vision utility (which BTW on my computer doesn't take nearly as long as VMS does to open said file, nor does it have the single-click issue I described earlier)--and yes, I know that Nero Vision isn't in the same league as VMS...but that is besides the issue I'm about to point out--Nero doesn't drop nearly as many frames during preview window playback (I would even go as far as to say that it's playing back at near 25 fps). Heck, even Windows Media Player 10 can play back the raw m2t clip more smoothly (in a larger window, I might add) than Vegas does on my PC!
So...do I just need to capture smaller-sized raw (i.e., unedited) m2t clips so that VMS doesn't choke when loading much larger clips? I would find it hard to believe that VMS struggles w/ loading very large (12 GB) captured m2t files...especially when I've read elsewhere that some others claim that they've had no issues loading similarly-sized files in VMS. And before someone suggests that I just need a faster computer (not that I wouldn't consider building one)--I've also read anecdotes from others who've had success running VMS on similar non-Core2Duo CPU setups...and even then, how would one explain why my "slow" PC can play back raw m2t clips at near 25 fps in Nero or Windows Media Player (in all fairness I don't know for a fact that it's doing 25 fps but I can tell that it's definitely NOT doing 9 fps), but yet can only do 9 fps in VMS?
I really want to be able to continue using VMS Platinum, but unless I can get the above issues resolved...there's no way I can put in a good word for it.
FWIW--I don't have any other programs of significance running concurrently on my PC, all anti-spyware/virus utilities were disabled prior to running VMS, and AFAICT VMS is running at 95+% CPU utiliization.
And on top of all that, when I playback the as-yet unedited footage in the preview window, it plays back at a mere 9-10 fps...even with preview window sized at 320x240 and set to draft picture quality. In comparison, when I load it in Nero 7 using the Nero Vision utility (which BTW on my computer doesn't take nearly as long as VMS does to open said file, nor does it have the single-click issue I described earlier)--and yes, I know that Nero Vision isn't in the same league as VMS...but that is besides the issue I'm about to point out--Nero doesn't drop nearly as many frames during preview window playback (I would even go as far as to say that it's playing back at near 25 fps). Heck, even Windows Media Player 10 can play back the raw m2t clip more smoothly (in a larger window, I might add) than Vegas does on my PC!
So...do I just need to capture smaller-sized raw (i.e., unedited) m2t clips so that VMS doesn't choke when loading much larger clips? I would find it hard to believe that VMS struggles w/ loading very large (12 GB) captured m2t files...especially when I've read elsewhere that some others claim that they've had no issues loading similarly-sized files in VMS. And before someone suggests that I just need a faster computer (not that I wouldn't consider building one)--I've also read anecdotes from others who've had success running VMS on similar non-Core2Duo CPU setups...and even then, how would one explain why my "slow" PC can play back raw m2t clips at near 25 fps in Nero or Windows Media Player (in all fairness I don't know for a fact that it's doing 25 fps but I can tell that it's definitely NOT doing 9 fps), but yet can only do 9 fps in VMS?
I really want to be able to continue using VMS Platinum, but unless I can get the above issues resolved...there's no way I can put in a good word for it.