Vegas 8:Very slow response when switching windows

Siby wrote on 8/27/2010, 7:11 PM
I had a very bad experience with vegas 8 yesterday. I have a 1 hour 30 min track. one video track (mpeg) and a 5:1 surrounded sound tracks. When I come back to vegas from any other windows, vegas is taking lot of time to response. Any had this problem?. What was the root cause and remediation. Please advise.

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musicvid10 wrote on 8/27/2010, 7:28 PM
It's a feature that unloads the media from memory when Vegas is not the focus. You can disable the feature in Preferences.

"Close media files when not the active application."
farss wrote on 8/27/2010, 8:31 PM
Aside from that I find turning down the number of thumbnails e.g. head and tail only, can help a lot, don't recall now if that available in V8 or not but it really can help Vegas run smoother.

Bob.
Randy Brown wrote on 8/28/2010, 6:51 AM
Hey Bob,
I can't seem to find this in prefs, is it somewhere else?
Also I wonder if putting temporary files on another drive other than C: drive helps...better yet is there a list of Vegas tweaks somewhere?
Thanks,
Randy
rs170a wrote on 8/28/2010, 7:04 AM
Randy, what Bo b was referring to is under Options - Prefs - Video - Thumbnails to show in video events.
The default in Pro 8 was All and got changed in Pro 9 to (as I recall) Head, Center, Tail.
My Temp directory is never on drive C.
I've got a 3-drive set-up and place all my Vegas Temp files on drive E.

Other than browsing this and other Vegas forums for suggestions, there's no list of tweaks that I'm aware of.
Here are some basic ones that I always do:
Change the default settings as soon as you install Vegas and DVD Architect as most of them default to the C drive somewhere and that's not what you want.
Have at least two hard drives on your system and do all your capturing and rendering to the second drive, leaving the first one for programs only.
Create a master folder for all new projects and keep everything related to the project in that folder. It makes backups much easier.
Disconnect from the net whenever you're editing.
Turn off auto-update on Windows and QuickTime as too many folks have been burned by unknown or unwanted updates.

Mike
Randy Brown wrote on 8/28/2010, 7:26 AM
Hey Mike thanks very much...not sure how I missed that.
I'm already doing most of what you suggested but I've made a copy of your tips to save.
One question re: no internet while editing...is that just for wireless (I've heard that can definitely cause havoc) or wired (from router) cable too?
Thanks again Mike,
Randy
rs170a wrote on 8/28/2010, 7:31 AM
You're very welcome Randy.
There are tweaks in the Prefs that I'm still discovering (after several years with Vegas) after I read various forum posts so don't feel bad :-)
As far as the internet is concerned, as long as you're not on-line (it should be easy to disable it from your computer), you're OK.
Others may disagree with me on this point but that's my modus operandi and I'm sticking to it.

Mike