I am wondering if this is normal.My meters never really show the meter levels ..

darr wrote on 4/26/2001, 1:51 PM
correctly as I figured they would on the compressor.Also
recording eight trax at a time has the meters very sluggish.
Never noticed this in other programs.
Is this normal?
I am running a dual mobo with 2x 1000 processors,so video
should not be a prob with this program.
Thanx for Help.

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chaboud wrote on 4/27/2001, 9:14 AM
Actually, video drawing (especially 2D) is rarely any
faster with a second processor. You're much more likely to
run up against bus speed problems. Even though an AGP card
uses a different bus with a direct memory window, it shares
IRQs with PCI cards. How efficient a graphics adapter is
at drawing meters can vary widely with different cards and
drivers.

That said(and assuming that you have an AGP card), try
moving your sound card to a differnt PCI slot if this is an
issue for you. Meter drawing is fairly lazy, as to not
step on more important things (your audio), but I am
curious to know what other software responds more quickly.

Thanks,
mc
darr wrote on 4/27/2001, 2:29 PM
Try sawstudio.
Incredible automation as well.
Latency is null.Meters are very acurate.
I happen to pick this up the other day.Vegas is still the
king for video for me!!!But a man needs alot o tools in his
tool box to build that building.;-)
Just seems to be on the compressor and on eight trax at
once when recording.
Moving the audio card is not an issue here.
Been there done that many atime.
Thanx
pwppch wrote on 4/27/2001, 4:47 PM
Yes, this is a known issue with any plugin that has meters.
There is no "standard" way to get the meters in a plugin to
be in sync with what you hear/see.


It will require both an update to Vegas as well as for any
plugin that has a meter for the meters to be in sync with
the playback.

THere are some third party plugs that actually permit you
to enter the latency offset so that the filter know how
much to delay the display.

Peter

chaboud wrote on 4/30/2001, 3:57 PM
Well, if showing the waveforms during recording is less
important to you than metering, go to OPTIONS-
>PREFERENCES. Go to the Audio tab and look for "Waveform
display while recording."

It should be set to "Show all waveforms" by default, but
setting it to "Don't show waveforms" will pick up your
meter speed quite a bit.

Tell me how it works for you.

Thanks,
mc