Hi,
I've tried for hours to find a similar question on this problem in the SF forum and DMNforums but I guess I must not be using the correct search phrases because I get so many threads that it's like drinking from a firehose and I have found none so far that solve my problem.
I have a Home-built P4 1.8 Ghz with ASUS motherboard, 512MB ram, I have 5 hard drives, they aren't raid though. 4 of them are SCSI and one of those has SF Vegas 4.0d installed on it. The SCSI drives in size are 34 gig, 9 gig, & two 17 gigs. Then I have a separate Western digital 80 gig 7200 RPM IDE drive that is about 1/2 full. This is my video drive. I'm using WinXP with all of the lastest service packs & patches. I do have a lot of software installed on the scsi drives so my registry is probably pretty big.
When I first started using VV, it was lighting quick, very responsive. Lately though when every I open up Vegas, if my Explorer tab happens to be opened up to a directory that has a several .JPGs to list, it takes forever for vegas to list them, it's like, one every second. So If I have 90 pics it takes about 90 seconds just for vegas to give me control to open a project. Then after I open a project I get that progress bar sitting on the bottom forever that says "100% 1 of 2". Then it takes about 2 minutes to open the project.
If after that, I switch from vegas to some other task, then back to vegas, It takes about a minute to get control back in vegas as it just sits there. I recently defragged and and didn't seem to make much difference.
All of this seemed to start happening when I clicked on the Views pull-down located at the top of the media-pool and explorer tab. I used to look at them all as thumbnails but changed the view to details. But I may be grasping at straws here.
I also wonder if the size of my jpg files are partly to blame. The jpgs are being pull straight of my Sony DSC-F717 5-MP digital still camera and they are at the highest resolution, (2560 X 1920) which is about a 2MB file each.
Anyway, I am open to any suggestions on how to optimize my system... This stinks waiting so long switching from apps and back to vegas and waiting for vegas to list the jpg files. Please help!.. . TIA
-Rick
I've tried for hours to find a similar question on this problem in the SF forum and DMNforums but I guess I must not be using the correct search phrases because I get so many threads that it's like drinking from a firehose and I have found none so far that solve my problem.
I have a Home-built P4 1.8 Ghz with ASUS motherboard, 512MB ram, I have 5 hard drives, they aren't raid though. 4 of them are SCSI and one of those has SF Vegas 4.0d installed on it. The SCSI drives in size are 34 gig, 9 gig, & two 17 gigs. Then I have a separate Western digital 80 gig 7200 RPM IDE drive that is about 1/2 full. This is my video drive. I'm using WinXP with all of the lastest service packs & patches. I do have a lot of software installed on the scsi drives so my registry is probably pretty big.
When I first started using VV, it was lighting quick, very responsive. Lately though when every I open up Vegas, if my Explorer tab happens to be opened up to a directory that has a several .JPGs to list, it takes forever for vegas to list them, it's like, one every second. So If I have 90 pics it takes about 90 seconds just for vegas to give me control to open a project. Then after I open a project I get that progress bar sitting on the bottom forever that says "100% 1 of 2". Then it takes about 2 minutes to open the project.
If after that, I switch from vegas to some other task, then back to vegas, It takes about a minute to get control back in vegas as it just sits there. I recently defragged and and didn't seem to make much difference.
All of this seemed to start happening when I clicked on the Views pull-down located at the top of the media-pool and explorer tab. I used to look at them all as thumbnails but changed the view to details. But I may be grasping at straws here.
I also wonder if the size of my jpg files are partly to blame. The jpgs are being pull straight of my Sony DSC-F717 5-MP digital still camera and they are at the highest resolution, (2560 X 1920) which is about a 2MB file each.
Anyway, I am open to any suggestions on how to optimize my system... This stinks waiting so long switching from apps and back to vegas and waiting for vegas to list the jpg files. Please help!.. . TIA
-Rick