Such SLOW playback in preview it is horrible...

FreeEnterprise wrote on 6/28/2013, 12:20 PM
I have VMS 10 platinum, and I am working on a project that has 4 1080HD video streams that I am cutting between. I realize this is clearly pushing the capabilities of this software, but is there any way to utilize my computers power in the preview screen?

Right now it is so laggy, I literally have to go frame by frame to see what is happening.... If I hit play (even on the lowest setting and a tiny preview monitor) It will play about one frame per 30 seconds...

So I have been going through frame by frame to find my edit points. Which really stinks and takes FOREVER.

HELP!

I am running a new quad core machine with over a gig graphics card, and 8 gigs of ram, and multiple hard drives.

I even put all my video on another hard drive thinking it would speed it up.. Nope, just as slow. The only way to get it to play faster, is to save it and restart the machine after every few minutes to clear the ram. There has to be a way to allocate more than 2 gigs to this software to speed it up?

Does vegas movies studio 12 have this problem as well?

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vkmast wrote on 6/28/2013, 12:31 PM
From VMS Platinum 11 build 283 Release Notes
Vegas Movie Studio can now address up to 4 GB of memory when running on a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Movie Studio Platinum 12 is available in 32-bit and (for the first time) 64-bit.
https://www.custcenter.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5050

>>>Does (Movie Studio Platinum) 12 have this problem as well?<<<

Maybe you could download the trial and test for yourself?
https://www.custcenter.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4557/

ritsmer wrote on 6/30/2013, 2:10 AM
Did you look into the Windows task manager to see if other programs are eating up your cpu-time or disk accesses?

What you see it really not normal: here I have a 5 year stone-age Mac Pro 2 x old quad cores - and Vegas Pro 12 easily previews four 24 Mbps 1920x1080 AVCHD tracks at some 25 Fps - at preview/half setting.

I have GPU assist set to off - and project settings=used media.
astar wrote on 7/7/2013, 1:35 PM
You might try some of the following:

Preview auto switches in Vegas. Have you tried setting the Preview to Half, or Quarter, even going to draft settings? I have noticed a significant lag when the software switches between the various settings during playback, trying to show you the best image.

If you are trying to edit AVC or h.264, convert your clips to XDCAM, and try a comparison.

Proxy edit with DV for timelines with a lot of tracks and fxs.