Second monitor - Help with playback speed?

Ridlin wrote on 5/27/2007, 6:08 AM

I've searched around and haven't found a post that answers this question.

I've gone from the $100 version of vegas with a SD handycam to the full blown $500 version of vegas 7 with a $4,000 Sony HD cam.

And I'm missing the old days. Playback is so much slower in HD with vegas 7. Even when I play with SD captures the old version runs circles around the new one.

So I wanted to know if I buy another graphics card and plug a second monitor into it for the playback will that help speed up the playback?

Having a preview monitor is neat and all, but if all I'm doing is slowing down my playback even more I don't want to bother. This slow down is really hurting my productivity as well as my creativity. I avoid special effects to keep it running smoothly.

Will using a second monitor speed up or slow down playback? Or make no difference at all?

If anyone has any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it. I've already spent way too much money on this stuff and explaining to the wife why I need to spend more is going to be difficult! :)

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Chienworks wrote on 5/27/2007, 6:23 AM

I doubt it would speed it up at all. Most likely it would slow down a small amount, but maybe not enough to be noticeable.

I can imagine HD being a problem if you don't have a bleeding-edge PC. However, the full version of Vegas is still basically the same program as Vegas Studio, just with more features enabled. It really should handle SD just as well as the studio version. There are probably some other problems that need to be resolved that aren't specifically Vegas related. Are there any other changes you made to your system around the same time you installed Vegas 7?

Ridlin wrote on 5/27/2007, 7:07 AM

Hi Chienworks good to hear from you.

Sorry about the missing specs.

AMD 64 3500+
2.21 gighrtz
1 gig memory

No recent changes have been made. I still have the old $100 version installed (sony screenblast), and bringing it in there it still renders and plays back better.

Thanks for the input. I figured it wouldn't help. I guess I was hoping for a miracle. :)

The fact that it renders slower doesn't bother me, I can wait, but that's because I'm used to playing it back in the editor at almost 29 fps. The new is slower because it's doing more I'd guess.

On another thread it mentioned using shit-M to prerender the video. I noticed when I use that it's going to AVI instead of the compressed form it was captured in. eventhough the final version is for dvd (mpeg 2), I'm going to try that out and use some harddrive space.

Maybe it's slower because it's decompressing the video as I'm viewing it?

I'll keep playing with it. It just makes it tough because it's a music video and I need to have lip syncing with the sound track.

The old editor was so fast I could play itunes in the background while I was watching playback.

With this version I run around killing every extra process (virus detector, quicktime) before attempting to run it.

Thanks again.

Ridlin wrote on 5/27/2007, 7:09 AM

Oh, and it's got a really nice graphics card in it, but I've already read that that doesn't help.

Why Sony? WHY? Please make update that takes advantage of an nvidia 7800. You use nvidia cards in your ps3!

stevec5375 wrote on 5/27/2007, 8:24 AM

I'm in the same boat as you. I have the following:

Motherboard: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
AMD 64 x2 4800+, 2.4 GHz
2 GB Corsair RAM
2 320GB Seagate SATA II drives in a RAID 1 array.

Everytime I try to play back a VOB file from a DVD I've ripped, the playback window is jerky.

I watch the operating system's processes with "Process Explorer" and Sony only utilizes 50% of the CPU and nothing else is using any. I don't understand why I'm having this problem.