Momentary non-response

cspvideo wrote on 5/5/2005, 7:02 PM

Has anyone had Vegas go unresponsive when using something external -- like an art program. When I use Photoshop or even adjust system volume mine stops responding for a minute or so. It comes back without issue. It happened in 5 and is happening in 6 as well. The only difference I can see is I get a message on the video timeline thumbnails that the media is offline.

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jeff_12_7 wrote on 5/5/2005, 7:29 PM

Yes, it is probably a memory issue. I have a little icon that shows my memory levels and once in a while it shows that all my memory is being used and I have to wait it out, like you. Photoshop can be a memory hog too...you can lower the amount of UNDO levels in PS preferences and this helps. I have 1GB DDR memory.

cspvideo wrote on 5/5/2005, 7:37 PM

Thanks. I'll look at that. I have 2 gig on one machine and 4 on the other. I've read the thread on how much of that actually gets used.

cspvideo wrote on 5/5/2005, 7:41 PM

I don't think it's memory. I just put the graph up and monitored cpu and memory. CPU spikes when I adjust audio but stays under max. Memory always has about a gig available.

jetdv wrote on 5/5/2005, 7:56 PM

By default, Vegas releases all resources it has open when you switch to another program. When you switch back to Vegas, it has to reopen all of them. There is an option you can change in Options - Preferences to prevent it from doing so. However, you won't be able to edit a photo that is on the timeline anymore (for example).

cspvideo wrote on 5/6/2005, 10:18 AM

Thanks. That's got to be what it is then. I'm at my "day" job so I'll play with that when I get home.

cspvideo wrote on 5/6/2005, 8:21 PM

It's using the secondary display that is causing the problem in Vegas 6 on one of the machines. On the other it works fine. The newer machine has a dual monitor capable AGP card. The older machine has two cards in it. One is an AGP and one is PCI. It hangs up on the latter one if I enable the secondary display. If I leave it off the program behaves normally.