Poor Media Pool Performance and Sticky Preview

zabble wrote on 12/29/2004, 2:18 PM

Been using Vegas 5 for about 3 months now. I'm a former Adobe Premiere Pro user and I just couldn't deal with the lousy Adobe-style user interface anymore. I like Vegas alot, but I'm just getting use to it... this forum has been helpful... thanks you guys. so... all that said... two issues...

1) Some projects I work on incorporate large-ish images (3025x2225), which I would rather not resize. When I drop these into the media pool, the whole thing gets real slow and difficult to scroll through. Seems like Vegas is creating new thumbnails all the time on the fly, rather than caching existing ones... any ideas?

2) Sometimes the preview is sticky when I add lots of fades and quick cuts to the timeline. Things appear out of sync, when in fact they are not. Timings (audio/video sync) in my projects are key and I need to shift them around alot. (Premiere is horrble at this) I think the answer to this is selective prerendering, which is cumbersome. Any thoughts?

Running XP on a Pentium 4 - 2GHz
1 Gb Ram
ATI Radeon 9550 with 256Mb
Digital Samsung LCD Monitor

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 12/29/2004, 5:44 PM

What format are the stills, and how many stills are in the media pool?

Liam_Vegas wrote on 12/29/2004, 5:53 PM

Do you actually NEED these images to stay at this resolution (are you doing some significant zooming into these images). The resolution will definitely be a factor here. This fact will impact both questions.

And ... what format are these images? Some formats are better (worse) than others. For instance TIFF is known to be a problem as it uses the quicktime components apparentlty - and the word is that slows down the process significantly.

zabble wrote on 12/29/2004, 6:32 PM

Thanks for the response.

It's very helpful to have them at high resolution as I am doing some significant zooming. They are all JPGs.

I figured the size was the issue. Thought there might be a tweak or a parameter that I might tune.

zabble wrote on 12/29/2004, 6:33 PM

JPGs... each project has at least 20 or more.

Thanks!