Hardware for Vegas 6

Philsez wrote on 5/10/2005, 8:43 AM

I am having a hard time getting anything close to real time preview with Vegas 6. When I import media from my Sony HDV camera, the preview screen is blank - but it captures. And a render of a 35 minute clip with 1 Magic Bullet white diffusion filter took 17 hours. What hardware upgrade do I neeed to handle HDV? My current PC has XP Pro SP2, P4 HT 3.02GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 330GB Hard Drive 50% free space, and a Radeon 9200 Video Card.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 5/10/2005, 9:03 AM

You are using only one hard drive? That's the FIRST place you should be upgrading. DV on the same drive as your OS is bad enough, but trying to do HiDef on that same drive is crazy.
MB is slow anyway, read the forums and you'll see a lot of complaint. Adding MB to HDV equals a long, painful render.
Consider a dual proc system, and otherwise, you're in pretty good shape.

GlennChan wrote on 5/10/2005, 11:25 AM

Hard drive: Ideally you would've created a seperate partition for just the video, so it doesn't have fragmentation problems.

If you keep your computer clean, you may not have problems capturing to the same drive as your OS and programs and things like that. During capture, you need to be sure not to do anything to avoid page file activity (which happens when you switch between programs).

2- Your computer is one of the fastest ones you can have for Vegas right now. You could get a pricey dual processor system but they aren't all that much faster. Usually dual processor systems are between -5% to 90% faster than a single processor system (depends highly on program). Not sure how Vegas 6 fares with dual processors, I haven't seen benchmarks lately.

3- Gearshift might help you edit HDV?

4- On my system (a Pentium 2.6C), a 35min clip (DV) with 1MB filter would take roughly as long as yours. The rendering ratio is around 30:1 for me. It's just magic bullet. Try the glow filter in Vegas instead.