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ScottW wrote on 11/2/2004, 5:50 AM
Why do you think you need to do this? Are you having some sort of problem with Vegas? If so, it might be better to describe the problem you are encountering.

My editing machine has quite a bit of hardware and lots of different things installed on it, and I have no problem using Vegas with the default hardware profile. At one time I had 3 instances of Vegas running doing an MPEG render while I was finishing up some editing in a 4th instance; besides being a little sluggish for editing, everything worked fine.

--Scott
propman07 wrote on 11/2/2004, 6:31 AM
Scott-

Thanks for the reply. The reason that I posted my question is because I had several dropped frames in a video capture that I was doing. (VHS tape through ADVC-100 box, ~ 2 hours in length, 11 dropped frames)

Some people have said that the dropped frames may have been from the actual video tape, so I was wondering how Vegas did with other apps/services using CPU cycles.

If you don't mind me asking, what type of a setup do you have?

I have a 3.06 GHz P4, 1 GB RAM, 128 MB Video card PC that I'm using Vegas on. I'm new to using the software, and have started archiving VHS tapes to DVD. I bought the Vegas 5 Editing Handbook that others here recommended, but am looking for any/all advice for a newbie to video editing.

Thanks again.
ScottW wrote on 11/2/2004, 6:57 AM
Sure.. Soyo MB, 800Mhz FSB, Dual chanel DDR (1GB acorss 4 sticks), P4 2.4; Matrox video, M-Audio 10/10, Sata card (not being used). 4 hard drives configured as a Raid 0 set; 5th drive system disk. CPU, Northbridge, Video and hard drives are all water cooled.

I'd have a tendency to blame dropped frames on either disk contention or Vegas capture. I've really gotten to like SceneAlyzer for capture over Vegas capture, since SA can correctly handle multiple 1394 devices connected and seems generally more reliable. While I try to stay away from other tasks during capture I have been known to capture concurrently with network file activity (that is accessing files on this machine from other machines on my network) and haven't encountered any dropped frame issues.
propman07 wrote on 11/2/2004, 9:25 AM
Scott-

Sounds like you have a pretty slick PC...I may have to check into SceneAlyzer for video capture over my ADVC-100 box. Are you capturing into your Matrox video card, and if so, what model is it?

To be honest, I didn't baby-sit my machine while it was doing the 2+ hours of capture. There might have been some scheduled disk defragmentation going on, which I am sure would have had an impact on the dropped frames. I have 5 drives in my machine as well, and am capturing to a drive that is on a separate IDE channel from the system drive.

Thanks for the info
ScottW wrote on 11/2/2004, 9:38 AM
SceneAlyzer has a trial version that you can use. Not using the matrox card for capture - it's thier triple head card, the 750 I think. I had an RT2500 at one point; gave it up for junk and sold it on eBay (at least I got what I paid for it, but talk about a complete waste of time).
propman07 wrote on 11/2/2004, 9:56 AM
That's funny...I thought about getting the RT2500 and the triple head Matrox card, but couldn't justify the $$$. I ended up with an ATI 9800 Pro to drive my two monitors.

I saw the free trial for Scenealyzer and will give it a try.