Look, I know some people here thinks I'm bitching all the time, but I wouldn't bitch if I didn't have anything to bitch about. I started using Vegas in version 8.0a, and sometimes I use RAM preview for some small loops where I want to preview something quick. It was a little buggy in the sense that sometimes some of the rendered frames in memory were gone and I had to do another Shit+B to get those frames rendered back to memory.
But now, not only they haven't fixed that bug, they actually rendered RAM preview useless. I made a selection, pressed Shift+B and it started rendering horribly slow, about 1 frame per second. We're talking about AVCHD footage without any filters, effects, or overlays, in a simple one video, one audio timeline. When it finishes rendering, playback is not smooth at all like it was whenever I did a RAM preview in 8a or 8b. So I press Shift+B again. It starts rendering slowly again as if the previous render had not existed.
When the render is finished, playback is still terrible. I press Shift+B once more, and I get the same result. I could keep typing the same thing over and over, because I simply can't get Vegas to render to RAM and playback smoothly.
I restarted the computer, I even selected another project, I made sure no other programs were running, pretty much everything I could think of.
This is getting ridiculous. I want so bad to keep using this program because I enjoy editing in it, but Sony with their lack of care for this product is making it really hard. It's frustrations all the time. Last night I left a timeline rendering to 8 Mbps 1440 AVCHD just to put it on a DVD-RW and preview it on my BD player, and this morning I woke up and it had stalled at 5%. The program didn't crash, it was just there doing nothing. When I wanted to close it, it asked me if I wanted to stop the operation, to which I clicked yes, but nothing happened. I had to kill the process from the task manager after hopelessly waiting for Vegas to close by itself. And it's just one more bug for the list...
But now, not only they haven't fixed that bug, they actually rendered RAM preview useless. I made a selection, pressed Shift+B and it started rendering horribly slow, about 1 frame per second. We're talking about AVCHD footage without any filters, effects, or overlays, in a simple one video, one audio timeline. When it finishes rendering, playback is not smooth at all like it was whenever I did a RAM preview in 8a or 8b. So I press Shift+B again. It starts rendering slowly again as if the previous render had not existed.
When the render is finished, playback is still terrible. I press Shift+B once more, and I get the same result. I could keep typing the same thing over and over, because I simply can't get Vegas to render to RAM and playback smoothly.
I restarted the computer, I even selected another project, I made sure no other programs were running, pretty much everything I could think of.
This is getting ridiculous. I want so bad to keep using this program because I enjoy editing in it, but Sony with their lack of care for this product is making it really hard. It's frustrations all the time. Last night I left a timeline rendering to 8 Mbps 1440 AVCHD just to put it on a DVD-RW and preview it on my BD player, and this morning I woke up and it had stalled at 5%. The program didn't crash, it was just there doing nothing. When I wanted to close it, it asked me if I wanted to stop the operation, to which I clicked yes, but nothing happened. I had to kill the process from the task manager after hopelessly waiting for Vegas to close by itself. And it's just one more bug for the list...