If I hadn't seen it for myself...

Cliff Etzel wrote on 9/30/2005, 8:54 AM

Now, my machine isn't cutting edge, actually quite conservative by current hardware specs, but it is rock solid and haven't found a reason to upgrade yet.
Intel 845WN MoBo, 1GB Ram, Nvidia 128MB vid card, 40GB boot drive, 80GB vid drive

I do own both VV5 and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0.

Had done an identicle 5 minute video piece with music in each application.

While previewing in PPro 1.0, I watched my system resources go thru the roof! By the time the preview was finished, I watched my memory usage climb from 103mb at the beginning to almost 500 mb used by the end! In addition, my CPU was up to almost 75%.

In contrast, VV5 barely used 30% of my CPU and maxed out at 75mb memory usage.

I am absolutely stumped by this - same piece, same transitions, same music file. And yet VV5 is way more efficient on system resources than PPro.

Question - is VV6 as efficient as VV5??? Not shooting HD yet, but what else am I missing in practicle terms by staying with VV5?

TIA,

Cliff Etzel
Blue Digital Media

Comments

MH_Stevens wrote on 9/30/2005, 9:19 AM

If you have no HD interest as of yet you might wait for Vegas7. Expected it next early summer. V5 was is still a good program.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/30/2005, 10:07 AM

the preview settings may have had something to do with it too???

Don't have much of any exp. with PP1.0 or otherwise.

Dave

CTJ wrote on 9/30/2005, 10:13 AM

MH Stevens,

Question: I have access to V5 & V6...I do not shoot HD, but, with a Mini DV cam, rendering AVI's...is and/or will Vegas 6 offer me anything over V5...albeit, in V6 I do like the scrubber, etc.

MH_Stevens wrote on 9/30/2005, 10:40 AM

Every newer version is of course, better than the one before. The thing with V6 is that the major changes from V5 were just the HD stuff. If CTJ has V6 then no reason to use V5 in my book.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/30/2005, 10:44 AM

please - the Major changes (for me) are NESTABLE TIMELINES!!!! @/\@

Dave

winrockpost wrote on 9/30/2005, 2:04 PM

..............Every newer version is of course, better than the one before

We would hope so, but thats not always the case .IMHO

busterkeaton wrote on 10/1/2005, 2:15 AM

I would say V6 is not as efficient as V5. I'm seeing more pagefile usage. A lot of people have turned on media manager because it uses MS SQL which is a hog.

seeker wrote on 10/1/2005, 9:11 AM

Busterkeaton,

"A lot of people have turned on media manager..."

You probably meant turned off media manager?

-- seeker --

DrLumen wrote on 10/1/2005, 1:00 PM

That is the first thing I turned off...

vicmilt wrote on 10/2/2005, 11:32 AM

where IS the "off" button for media manager?

I used it recently to great advantage.
But now I don't need it.

v

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/2/2005, 11:44 AM

In Options/Prefs, look to almost the bottom, you'll see a check box for it there. Uncheck it and restart Vegas.