suggestions welcome for playback rate problem

bartkean wrote on 9/30/2006, 8:19 AM

I am at my wits end in trying to figure out why with my new pc I can't get a solid 29.970 playback rate on a video clip with NO effects applied. I simply drag any clip onto the timeline and vegas just flickers right at 29.~. I cannot express the frustration that I have had over the past few days after trying to fix this problem by eliminating background processes and other tweaks. If anybody could offer any kind of solution or advice it would be greatly appreciated. Below is a decription of my processes and pc. I am using an external firewire hard drive for video. I have tried adjusting virtual memory to no avail and right now it's at 2048MB. Thanks for any help!

vegas60.exe user 41,260 K
explorer.exe user 12,930 K
svchost.exe system 9,508 K
svchost.exe system 4,516 K
svchost.exe system 4,092 K
services.exe system 3,904 K
svchost.exe network service 3,848 K
csrss.exe system 3,148 K
rundll32.exe user 2,504 K
winlogon.exe system 1,436 K
lsass.exe system 1,012 K
smss.exe system 388 K
system.exe system 232 K
system idle process system 28 K

Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2G
2x 1GB DDR2 533 Ram

Comments

bartkean wrote on 9/30/2006, 8:22 AM

btw I am using Vegas 6d.

Former user wrote on 9/30/2006, 8:42 AM

Have you tried playing the video from an internal drive? This would help rule out any external drive problem.

Virtual memory shoudn't come into play. It is primarily based on the CPU speed, data transfer speed and the video card.

Dave T2

bStro wrote on 9/30/2006, 9:31 AM

I simply drag any clip onto the timeline and vegas just flickers right at 29.~.

What format and codec does the file use?

And do your project properties match those of the file? Ie, are they same framerate, resolution, PAR, etc? If not, you have to at least allow Vegas a little leeway since it's doing at least some work there. (To sync them up, go to File -> Properties, click the Match Media Settings icon (button that looks like a folder) and select your media file.)

Rob

bartkean wrote on 9/30/2006, 9:48 AM

I have tried the internal drive, still the same.

Format: AVI rendered in Vegas. And other captured video.

I tried the match media settings, still the same.

I do adjust properties in the "project properties box" and still the same.

bStro wrote on 9/30/2006, 10:41 AM

Well, then something's screwy. I drop an AVI on a Vegas timeline with no effects applied, and it plays at the original framerate. And my machine (AMD Athlon 1.24GHz, 1GB RAM) isn't half what yours is. ;-)

What's your Dynamic RAM Preview (Options -> Preferences -> Video tab) set at? Putting it too high will take RAM away from Vegas' usual resources since it reserves it for special occassions (meaning, when you do a dynamic RAM preview).

Rob