Under preferences, go to the Video tab.

Under RAM Preview Max, you'll see a max thread count.

Matt,

Should this be set to "one" for single, non-HT processors?

Threads mean nothing, if you've got just a single non-HT proc. EG - i don't think the number you set it too will make any diff.

Dave

Unless -- God forbid -- Vegas is trying to launch those threads. It's also possible that setting it to 1 disables the multi-thread logic. I'm definitely going to try that idea out tonight.

just thought I'd get this back up for a bit for anyone that may not have read it.

Dave

Funny how Sony never comes to us with these 'Hot Fixes'. It's like they really don't test the software or something. They need to hire editors and fire programmers.

I know, I know... that's what Beta Testers are for. Does Sony not listen? Can they not keep up?

If a company was to just LISTEN, ABSORB, & REACT. The customer will always tell you what will make your product become #1. These forums are riddled with the answers to what Sony should be looking at. Then every now and again you get a Sony moderator that will step in and give a one line statement that is rarely a problem solver. (not a shot at anyone)

It's frustrating sometimes. But all in all... I'm not bitchin... I'm pretty happy w/ V6. Definitely hope to see it get the respect it deserves. If Sony would listen, absorb, & react... it would get its due respect in the industry. --Admit it or not... Vegas is still a consumer product.

Man Quit your bitchin. Hmmmm lets see about a year ago Vegas 5 came out, and immediatly people were bitchin about "we need nested projects" "what about a media manager", "what about dual processor supprt" HMMMM lets see Check,Check, Check. I have never seen a major software project listen to there customers as much as the guys in madsion do. Hell the programers are often discussing on this forum, Last time i checked, ive never had that from Avid,or Premerir or FCP. The only other software company that remotly interacts as well as sony is discreet. Just like V5 wait a few weeks and you have your bugs fixed. Or they could hire on a slew of testers, and have a 2 or 3 year develpment cycle. "dont think that will make many here happy.

well skibumm101 read the rest of the forums here and you will see that, though Sony has tried to provide these features you mention - everyone of them has serious problems - sending many of us back to previous versions until these probs are fixed - hopefully before we have to dole out more buckos for V7 - either we spend the bucks or they spend it and take more time to get it right upon release - take your (our) pick...

david

Main thing that i wanted to get out in the last post was that sony listens.

Dont you think sony is watching these forums like a hawk.

I am sure they have a big board with repeatable bugs listed and are working out those bugs out, and will have a bug update fairly quick. Just like they did in vegas 5.

Youd think by now that peoiple would understand how the boys in madison work. Create a new version of Vegas by NAB, with many new features that we have wanted, crying,begging demanding for, release it, then use us as "charlie testers", and put out new release shortly after.

We editors demand a lot and i think there cycle is working fairly well (not perfect), but give it a month, and many problems will be solved.

And within a couple of days, im sure there is going to be a "vegas 7 request thread"
and the visious cycle starts again

I thought it would be more useful if the Sony rep could state whether this "fix" is really necessary and in what circumstances, rather than just advising on how to change the number of threads.

Regarding the issue of "whining", I am sad to say that it is necessary to complain right away when you you find a problem with a new Sony software release. It seems that there is a possibility of them fixing bugs that they are made aware of in the early stages of release, however anything that shows up later gets left until the next paid-for upgrade. It's best to shout now while their development team is still around and able to spend some time on it.

Richard Hunter

There is a huge difference between whinning and providing helpfull information to recrate the "problem" that one is having. Go through the forums through the last day, and you will see the difference.

More info here.

The answer here is that performance of Vegas 6 on HT processors is generally very close to that of Vegas 5. Sometimes it is better, and sometimes it is worse. In most cases, the difference is marginal. In the cases where it is not marginal, we'd like to know what users are seeing.

As stated in the above post, we cannot test for all available configurations and projects. What we can do is take great pains to eliminate any glaring inefficiencies and provide optimizations that can yield very impressive gains on multi-processor systems. In many cases, optimizations in Vegas 6 lead to better performance, even on single-processor machines.

If you want a definitive answer, please refer to the link above.

I just tried this on 15 sec video that had 22 tracks lots of effects, most tracks set to a smaller size.

Vegas 6 set to 4 threads render time 4:52
Vegas 6 set to 1 thread render time 3:17

Lamont - I actually got that "hot fix" through a sony member - I was told to try it, I just found that it seemed to help and decided to send you all my findings. Just so you know - it's not like madison / Sony are just leaving you high and dry etc....

Dave

Thank for the reply SonyChaboud. I looked through the thread in the link, but could not see any obvious reference to why or when we should try changing the number of threads.

I understand your point about the number of possible combinations, and I'm not complaining that there is a chance certain systems might get slower with the new software. I just thought that it would be useful for Sony to provide some clear guidance on this matter.

Richard

skibumm -- you're alright in my book :D

- jim