Vegas preview playback?

Jerry K wrote on 3/7/2017, 1:48 PM

My Vegas Pro 13 preview playback is pretty good most of the time. I have read most of the tricks and settings posted on this forum for better playback and use them quite often.

Here's my question. I have not come across any postings on having your computer offline from the Internet or virus program turn off when editing which I believe can interfere and slow you down.

Anyone here have any feedback on this?

Many years ago there was a posting on the web on how to tuneup a computer for video editing. If anyone knows of such a list please share it with us.

Jerry K

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astar wrote on 3/7/2017, 3:26 PM

Have you read all the FAQ on this Vegas Forum?

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vegas-pro-faqs--104787/

If you post more information on your system specs, video source material format (Media Info), and final destination of your workflow, there will be plenty of people to give you opinions on areas to improve.

NickHope wrote on 3/7/2017, 9:27 PM

Here's my question. I have not come across any postings on having your computer offline from the Internet or virus program turn off when editing which I believe can interfere and slow you down.
Anyone here have any feedback on this?

I personally don't ever recall web browsers, virus programs or "being online" significantly intefering with my editing in Vegas. I very often have Firefox and various other stuff running at the same time as Vegas. For anti-virus I only use Windows Defender these days (in Win 10) and not the AVG Free that I used to.

Many years ago there was a posting on the web on how to tuneup a computer for video editing. If anyone knows of such a list please share it with us.

You may be thinking of the Videoguys tweaks. I don't think they've done one since Vista 64. A lot of things have changed since then. I used to do tons of tweaks on my computers including a load that came from the Videoguys articles but a lot has changed/improved since those days and I am more in favour of letting Windows handle things. I still follow the fundamentals like having media on a separate drive but with the advent of fast SSDs I think even that is becoming less important.

The preview speed FAQ post is here in case you missed it.