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Eugenia wrote on 7/3/2009, 3:38 PM
How long are the projects and how many clips per project? Also, 1 more GB of RAM might help.
philRmonic wrote on 7/18/2009, 1:47 AM
It seems to be the case that projects with a large amount of small clips take a while to open. For example, I'm working on a couple of projects at the moment; one of them is about 12 minutes long with clips that average about 5 seconds each and about 300 clips in the media bin - this takes about 2 minutes to start up. On the other hand I've another project that is 30 minutes long and is based around 2 long clips - this takes about 20 seconds to load up. It seems that VMS rebuilds its clip cache every start-up. I've got a quad core with 4Gb RAM running XP.

I just start it up and have a coffee!!
Chienworks wrote on 7/18/2009, 4:29 AM
Often i'll never close Vegas until after the project is complete and the renders are all done. This avoids any startup delays at all.

If i need to work on something else i'll open another instance of Vegas rather than closing the project i'm working on.

And yes, this means that sometimes i've had the same instance of Vegas open with the same project on the timeline for months on end.
Eugenia wrote on 7/20/2009, 2:07 PM
Chienworks, I believe you work with DV AVI which requires fewer resources and it's a mature format that Vegas doesn't screw up often. With HD, it's another matter.
ritsmer wrote on 7/20/2009, 2:19 PM
The long startup-time must be a machine/disks etc. issue.
Here a 300+ media project starts in 37 seconds from clicking the project-file and till everything loaded.