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rmack350 wrote on 5/17/2008, 1:21 PM
In my experience that's a bit on the large side for a project file but I'll bet the issue is the type of still media you're using. TIFF by any chance?

It shouldn't take 20 minutes to load a project.

Rob Mack
wcats9698 wrote on 5/17/2008, 1:56 PM
I really dont know. the pictures i am using are jpeg from a 9MP canon camera and the video i am using is mpeg2.
rmack350 wrote on 5/17/2008, 2:24 PM
Ah. They're jpeg, not tif. I think it'd be much worse with tif files.

It might be that you need to scale the jpeg files down to a smaller dimension. Also, mpeg2 is not really optimized for editing, so that can also bog you down. I'd tackle the stills first.

I take it this is a standard definition project? If it were an NTSC SD project you could scale the images down to 654x480 or some multiple of that. I might settle on 1440x1056 (two times 720x528, a dimension that is my own preference for NTSC projects) to give me room to pan around the image.

Since you already have the jpegs on the timeline maybe what I'd do is close Vegas, move all the jpegs to a new folder, and then use some batch processing tool to make resized copies of the same names as the originals, and save them into the original folder as they process. This way you have a complete collection of the smaller jpegs in the original folder with the same names and the next time you open Vegas it won't even notice the changes.

Rob Mack
johnmeyer wrote on 5/17/2008, 3:26 PM
Vegas can absolutely choke on MPEG2. My bet is that this is the biggest issue. Also, how many still photos? 9 megapixels is pretty big. Vegas can handle it, but it will probably get into a thrashing situation. How much RAM do you have? This is one situation where RAM size can make a huge difference.

I would suggest that you open Vegas, without opening the project. Go to the Options and look for the RAM Preview setting and either set it to zero or at least change it to 64 MB. Then, try opening the same project.

If that doesn't work (takes a long time) the other thing to do would be to copy ALL your photos to some backup location. Then, if you know how to use the batch facility in your photo editor, change the resolution from 3200x2500 (or whatever high resolution they are at) to something closer to your project size. If you are doing HD (1920x1080) then I'd size them to about half of their current resolution. Then, try loading the project.