This week I bought an external F/W drive to use with my Vaio laptop, and experienced the dreaded "Unable to mix audio. Operation timed out" error when trying to play back from the timeline.
Since then I have searched various Vegas forums and read through many threads about this, going back several months. Although not all external F/W HD users have had the problem, many have.
It seems that various remedies or improvements have been tried, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. It seems to be worse when a single clip is split and crossfaded with itself - causing a high demand on the seek function.
It seems that SF are aware of the situation and there has been mention that the new audio engine used in Acid 4 does not seem to have the same problem, and this will probably be ported to the next version of Vegas.
Today I installed Premiere 6.02 on my laptop for the first time, purely to try it out with the firewire drive. To my astonishment there were no playback problems at all!
One of the many areas in which Vegas generally "kills" Premiere has been Audio, and yet AP doesn't stall like Vegas does, even with a single DV stereo track.
As I am very keen to start using my laptop with firewire drive - and Vegas, I would love to hear if there has been any progress towards solving this.
Since then I have searched various Vegas forums and read through many threads about this, going back several months. Although not all external F/W HD users have had the problem, many have.
It seems that various remedies or improvements have been tried, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. It seems to be worse when a single clip is split and crossfaded with itself - causing a high demand on the seek function.
It seems that SF are aware of the situation and there has been mention that the new audio engine used in Acid 4 does not seem to have the same problem, and this will probably be ported to the next version of Vegas.
Today I installed Premiere 6.02 on my laptop for the first time, purely to try it out with the firewire drive. To my astonishment there were no playback problems at all!
One of the many areas in which Vegas generally "kills" Premiere has been Audio, and yet AP doesn't stall like Vegas does, even with a single DV stereo track.
As I am very keen to start using my laptop with firewire drive - and Vegas, I would love to hear if there has been any progress towards solving this.