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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/19/2011, 11:44 AM
perhaps some additional information or an image that we could see, to be able to help you possibly.

Dave
willqen wrote on 10/19/2011, 11:51 AM
MickeyDH;

You need to post your system specs!

Knowing your system specs will allow us to help you with your problem.

.mov files can be problematic for many reasons, none of them having anything to do with Vegas.

That's all I can say for now till I see your system specs, and what type of file/codec you were using inside the .mov file.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/19/2011, 1:27 PM
I actually meant more details on what is making it look bad, how it's looking bad, etc...

Dave
rmack350 wrote on 10/19/2011, 1:45 PM
Set it to best/full or good/full and then set the preview window to scale it to fit.

Yes, the auto resolutions looked unusually bad to me. Dont know why but if it seems out of line then report it.

Rob
MikeyDH wrote on 10/19/2011, 1:54 PM
Dave, it is like a bad cable connection. The picture fractures is the best way I can describe it. Has a hard time keeping a solid image as the events play.

Rob, I have been playing with the settings and I see no improvement. I have a suspicion that it is tied into the GPU acceleration. I can work with it, but it is annoying.
rmack350 wrote on 10/19/2011, 2:21 PM
Got it. Doesn't sound the same as what I was seeing. Neither of my machines supports GPU acceleration. The default preview mode for 11 was preview-auto and it looked pretty bad, worse than I'd expect. Maybe it was built to expect some preview acceleration...or maybe I was just seeing things.

Someone else here on the forum (or maybe the Cow?) posted a note saying their preview looked like a bad cable connection. This was in the last few weeks but before VP11. Maybe it's a display driver issue?

Rob

<Edit>My problem was just me. Loose nut behind the wheel. Preview auto was giving me quarter resolution scaled up to almost but not quite half resolution. Of course it looked awful. Just checked VP10 and it all looks just as awful that way. It's just surprising because I never view things that way.</edit>
Rv6tc wrote on 10/19/2011, 2:35 PM
Mikey,

Check to see how much "Preview RAM" you have set. It on the Video tab in Preferences.

Mine defaulted to 200MB and it caused a lot of problems. I upped it to 2048 and have no problems, and much better playback since. (GTX 560 card).

Good luck,

Keith
Randy Brown wrote on 10/19/2011, 2:55 PM
Keith, do you mean using Dynamic Ram preview or just playback in general?

Also, do you change it to zero when you render large projects?
MikeyDH wrote on 10/19/2011, 3:10 PM
Keith, that did the trick. I bumped the Preview RAM up to 1250. I never gave that a thought after setting it and forgetting it in 10.

Thanks for the help...I certainly appreciate it.
Rv6tc wrote on 10/19/2011, 5:20 PM
Glad it worked for you. It was driving me crazy, too.

Randy, Dynamic RAM Preview. Re: changing it. I haven't thought through it that far, but I now have 16G of RAM, so I doubt I'll mess with it unless I get some other problems.

Keith
Randy Brown wrote on 10/19/2011, 5:32 PM
Thanks Keith