No audio peaks, very slow Playback

Nashrambler2 wrote on 1/6/2015, 11:55 AM

Hello

I'm running Vegas Pro 11.371 on a Vista 64 with 6 Gigs ram. before I upgraded to ver 11.770, it seemed to run decently.

I upgraded to ver 770 and it sucked so I went back to this version from my DVD and it hasn't built the audio peaks since.Even tho i press Shift+F5 the program will not build audio peaks any more.

Also it can run really slowly and I can't really see the sync. I have tried different qualities (Daft, best,etc) but it made no difference.I have run it well on the 6 Gigs of Ram installed, but not recently.

Any help/thoughts are appreciated!

Comments

rs170a wrote on 1/6/2015, 12:56 PM

Vista? Most folks on here disliked Vista a LOT and refused to use it.

Are you sure you don't mean Pro 12? The last build of Pro 11 was 701 while the last build of Pro 12 was 770.

What are your system specs? CPU, graphic card, # of hard drives, etc.

Does this answer from the Knowledge base help at all?

When you import large video or audio files, the peak audio wave forms need to be drawn to the timeline. You can adjust when peak files are built in the General tab of the Preferences dialog box. To do this, go to Options > Preferences > General and find the option labeled "Build peaks for visible events only".
Select this check box if you want to build peak files (.sfk) as needed. Peak files will not be built until a file is visible in the timeline. You can open your projects more quickly, but there may be occasional pauses as peaks are built.
Clear the check box if you want to build all necessary peak files when you open your project. Opening a project can take longer, but after peak files are built, you can scroll through and view your project.

Mike

Nashrambler2 wrote on 1/6/2015, 3:47 PM

Thank you, Mike. unfortunately, there is no "Build Peaks...." option in that tab or anything like it there or eslewhere that I could find.

My CPU is an Intel Core2 Quad CPU @2.66Gz with 6GB of ram
Vista 64. it ran Vegas 8 and 11 previously without too much trouble. Now Vegas 11 runs slow and I cant even see sync. And there are no audio peaks to go by.

Any other ideas?
Much obliged!

OldSmoke wrote on 1/6/2015, 3:49 PM

Hold down CTRL+SHIFT and launch Vegas. This will reset it to it's default settings.

Nashrambler2 wrote on 1/6/2015, 6:47 PM

Old Smoke -- that worked!

Thank you so much!

Nash

OldSmoke wrote on 1/6/2015, 7:13 PM

You're Welcome. I am glad it worked.