Loving Vegas 5

Ben  wrote on 4/20/2004, 6:48 PM
I've been really putting Vegas 5 through its paces tonight with a big, previously V4, project and I'm loving it more and more by the minute. Couple of bullets:

- Incredibly stable. Hasn't crashed once. Seems a fair bit more responsive than V4 and this is a huge project with a hell of a lot of tracks and Waves plugs.

- The automation just wows me more and more. It's soooo good! Just watch those faders fly... (and doesn't seem to affect playback performance). Pro Fools eat your heart out.

- Hate to say it, but even the new UI look is growing on me a tad, with all the preferences saturation faders turned down. I still think it could do with some tweaking by Sony though - preferably letting the user do a lot of customizing.

That's it. Hat's off again to Peter and the team.

Ben

Comments

ibliss wrote on 4/20/2004, 7:54 PM
re. responsiveness.
You might notice if you look at the task manager (in XP anyway) that Vegas 5 gets set to 'High' Thread Priority. Don't know if really makes a big difference in terms of 'feel'.

Would it cause issues if you were sync V5 to another app?

Anyone know how to get V5 to start up in 'Normal' Thread Prority mode? There must be a registry hack...
Nat wrote on 4/20/2004, 8:04 PM
Mine is set to normal by default,,,
Ben  wrote on 4/20/2004, 8:05 PM
ibliss - where do you find that in the XP task manager? Can't see it...

(edit: found it. Interesting, mine is also set to normal. Never touched these settings - do they have much effect? If a really needed to push Vegas' "power" would changing it to the highest setting 'realtime' help, or would it cause problems elsewhere?).
Nat wrote on 4/20/2004, 8:07 PM
look in the processes, right click vegas50.exe
Ben  wrote on 4/20/2004, 8:08 PM
Thanks Nat - you beat me to it!
ibliss wrote on 4/20/2004, 8:09 PM
Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the task manager,
click on the 'Processes' tab
find 'Vegas50.exe' (under the image name column - click the header to order the processes by name)
Right click on the 'vegas50.exe' entry and go to 'set priority'

the current priority will be checked. You can change it by selecting another option, XP asks if you're sure. Click ok (I've NEVER had any problems doing this, no crashes or anything).
ibliss wrote on 4/20/2004, 8:15 PM
i'm slow today!

you can also add a column that shows the thread prioritys of everything at once - go to the view menu and choose 'select columns'.

Can't say that changing it to high will have too much effect, except that when you multitask you might notice that apps with lower thread priorities respond sluggishly.

Running the Video rendertest.veg file my system is 1 or 2 seconds faster when set to 'above normal' or 'high' thread, so not really anything to worry about. Maybe a good thing to use when burning discs to stop other apps stealing the CPU and making a coaster.