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Chienworks wrote on 3/7/2008, 9:23 PM
If they're too big to use in Vegas, how are you editing them?

Assuming that's not an issue, in Vegas you have to render to a new file in order to shorten the file. Then you can delete the original if you're sure you don't need it any more.
ally84 wrote on 3/7/2008, 11:12 PM
Thanks Chien... well good question! I have been working on this for months and months... movie studio kept on crashing after about 1 minute of use so I conversed with the movie studio support in my state back and forth for months and they were no help at all so I took it into IT at work and he figured out the reason it was crashing was that everytime i was playing back the footage, MS was using each original file individually but only playing what i had edited it to(sometimes like 64MB what I had visually reduced to 2 seconds).... So now I have started a new project and I want to edit each file and save it as I have edited but I am not sure how??
Chienworks wrote on 3/8/2008, 5:57 AM
"MS was using each original file individually but only playing what i had edited it to"

That's what is supposed to happen. All non-destructive editing software works this way. This isn't what is causing your problems. Lots of my projects will end up using little bits and pieces of dozens or hundreds files that can be up to about 64GB in size, so what you're working with is rather tiny in comparison.

You have some other issues with your computer somewhere that are causing the crashing. Can you fill in your system specs in your profile? That will help us diagnose what's going on.

Also, do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to task manager and click on the "processes" tab. Give us a rough count of how many items are listed there. If you've got more than, oh, say 25 then you've got too much stuff running on your computer. Under View / Columns check both Mem Usage and Virtual Memory Size. Are any of the programs either using most of the amount of RAM you have or using a much larger amount of Virtual Memory than the others?

Are you running anti-virus or spyware checker software? If so, what programs?

We'll get this sorted out for you and get you on your way editing happily.
MSmart wrote on 3/8/2008, 5:59 PM
I want to edit each file and save it as I have edited but I am not sure how??

Could Make Movie > Save to Hard Drive > Render loop region only - be what you're looking for?
ally84 wrote on 3/20/2008, 8:12 PM
Hi Chien,

Sorry for the delay I work 2 jobs and this project has taken a back seat....

Yeah thats what I thought it was meant to do!

What do you mean system specs? I am editing on my lap top, but accessing this site on my PC.

Looking at my processes there are like 50 something programs running!! I barely use the notebook for anything else! Only the Movie Studio is using aournd 100,000K - the rest are like 2,000K. Can I end these do you think? 99% are .exe files....

I am using a program called Trend Micro for security....

Thank you!!!!
ally84 wrote on 4/3/2008, 1:56 AM
Hi Chienworks,

Please dont forget me - I need you!

.....
dfred wrote on 4/7/2008, 1:49 PM
This post caught my attention because you asked how many processes are running on another user's computer. She said 50 or so. I have 63.

How many are supposed to be running and how can one determine what is ok to delete/turn off or which ones are necessary?
Chienworks wrote on 4/7/2008, 2:47 PM
When i'm idle i'll have a process list something like this:

avgamsvr.exe
avgcc.exe
avgemc.exe
avgupsvc.exe (these four are AVG antivirus)
crss.exe
explorer.exe
lsass.exe
services.exe
smss.exe
spoolsv.exe
svchost.exe (around 6 to 8 of these)
System
System Idle Process (should be eating up 95+% when idle)
taskmgr.exe
winlogin.exe

Note that this is for Windows XP. I don't know what's usual for 2K or Vista as i don't have either one installed anywhere nor have any plans to in the forseeable future. And of course, anything else you have running such as Vegas will be in that list too.
Himanshu wrote on 4/7/2008, 6:00 PM
BlackViper is a good site for Windows service configurations. Make modifications at your own risk, and never without understanding the consequences.
GBR wrote on 4/7/2008, 6:06 PM
For what it's worth, there may be some problem related to Trend Micro Security. I have found that it slows VMSP down considerably. Seems that Trend is very aggressive in stopping "threats" and it doesn't recognise VMSP as an "OK" program.
So long as you are doing your editing off line you can close Trend with little or no risk. Right click on the Trend icon on the lower task bar and select "exit". It will then ask you to confirm that you really want to shut Trend down.
After you have finished editing and assuming that you have a Trend icon on the desktop, just double click on that to restart Trend. Alternatively just do a shutdown and restart.
Good luck,
GBR