Project Size?

wcats9698 wrote on 5/17/2008, 9:36 PM

Still new to vegas pro. My typical size of my projects tend to be between 350 and 450 KB. I use JPEG and MPEG2 files in my projects. Is this too big of files. my videos are around 15 minutes long. How long should my projects be and what can i do to shrink my project sizes.

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PeterWright wrote on 5/17/2008, 10:13 PM

Your project sizes are less than half a megabyte - they couldn't be much smaller!

The veg files themselves are just a list of instructions recording what you have done with the media in your project - they are not the media files themselves.

Not sure what you are asking - projects can be any length, depending on what you want.

Perhaps you can give more details ...

wcats9698 wrote on 5/17/2008, 10:42 PM

well first off my project takes forever to load, like 30 minutes sometimes. i do have alot of pics and videos on my projects. something else i have is only 1gb of RAM. i have 3.00GhZ speed and 220 GB HD with 80 GB hard drive space. when i am using the program i can here my computer thinking an awful lot. then a box pops up and says vegas has encountered a fatal error and then suts down. i cant even check to see what the error is.

ushere wrote on 5/17/2008, 11:40 PM

are you working sd or hd? if hd you're a little underpowered - both cpu and ram.

either way you need another hard drive - get an external one for video work.

what sort of pics / sizes, and what sort of video are you working with?

leslie

wcats9698 wrote on 5/18/2008, 12:58 AM

I am using pics from a 8 MP canon camera. i have not downsized them. I am only using SD for video

busterkeaton wrote on 5/18/2008, 1:06 AM

using a lot of hi rez images will cause your project to slow down.

It's not the size of the project that is causing the delay. The project is just pointing to your files, when Vegas starts drawing thumbnails and timeline images all those hi rez images is when the delay is occuring.

If you are not panning or zooming on your photos, they do not need to be any bigger than SD size. Even if you are zooming twice SD size is usually adequate, unless you are really going in tight.

Also is this 220 gig drive your system drive? You will see improved performance if you put your project media on a separate physical drive.

busterkeaton wrote on 5/18/2008, 1:09 AM

mpeg 2 also needs some computing power to decode, but I bet the pics are the main problem.