Sudden slowdown

memory maker wrote on 7/11/2006, 2:53 PM

I sure hope someone can help me figure this out. I do alot of photo montage projects mostly on my laptop, using an external hard drive. I do this for funeral homes. My latest project, the family gave me all their media on a cd- jpgs, tifs, movs. I copied and pasted off the cd into the audio and recorded file I wanted to store the data in. I opened a new project, and acquired all the media at once in Vegas. Vegas then would run extremely slow and periodically lock up, and then I got the message my virtual memory was low. When I would close out of Vegas my computer was very slow until restart. Other Vegas projects work fine. I then connected my hard drive to my desktop and opened the project on that one. It was faster, but when I went to render, it took about an hour and then said it could not do it because I was too low on memory. (This computer has plenty of memory and is new). Any suggestions? Thanks to anyone for feedback!

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johnmeyer wrote on 7/11/2006, 3:40 PM

Yes. The problem has nothing to do with CDs, external hard drives, low memory, or anything else. The fact that those things happened to be new to you for this project is obscuring the real problem, which is the version of Vegas you are using, and the size of the pictures. At some point, Vegas changed (can't remember whether it was late 5.0 or early 6.0), and after that change, if you put large numbers of pictures on the timeline, everything would slow down when editing, and renders wouldn't complete, sometimes not at all.

The solution? I'm pretty sure this problem is dramatically reduced -- perhaps eliminated -- in version 6.0d.

If you don't want to upgrade, you can also downsize your images outside of Vegas (change the resolution to slightly larger than 720x480 for NTSC video, times the maximum pan/crop zoom factor you will be using. If no zoom, 800x600 is a nice resolution. If 2x zoom, then 1600x1200, and so on. Exact resolution don't matter. You just don't want lots of 4000x3000 images on the timeline. As a side benefit, you will get fewer shimmering artifacts when dynamically panning, zooming and cropping the pictures, if you do that.

TorS wrote on 7/11/2006, 3:41 PM

One or several files could be in a format Vegas does not happily accomodate. Get something to convert them. The new TMPGEnc4XP handles a lot of different formats.
Tor

memory maker wrote on 7/11/2006, 5:12 PM

Can't thank you enough!!!!!!!!!