Vegas slow to drop clips onto timeline

kevgl wrote on 1/8/2004, 12:06 AM
Hiya

What could cause VV to take 4-5 seconds to drop from the trimmer to the timeline? It also is taking 10 seconds to do a simple undo.

Didn't have this on my last project.

I've got plenty of drivespace (300Gig of 800 gig free). 1 Gig Ram PIV 2.8

There are 1350 clips in the media pool - would this do it? Anyway around it?

Cheers

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PeterWright wrote on 1/8/2004, 12:43 AM
Almost certainly something to do with the number of clips in the project, and the memory this occupies.

Sometimes rebooting - or better still, actually closing down, counting 20 and restarting the PC can free up resources.

Also worth checking that no other unnecessary apps are running in background.
kevgl wrote on 1/8/2004, 12:49 AM
Thanks Peter. I had a feeling RAM might be a concern.

I tried the reboot, I'll also defrag tonight. There is a fair bit of fragging there, although these discs are still frigging fast (2 x 400 Gig Raid0s) and I don't think that would slow things down as miuch as I am seeing.

Time for 2 Gig RAM you think?

I'm going to go crazy at this rate...

Cheers
dcrandall wrote on 1/8/2004, 5:20 AM
You might try unchecking "Close media files when not the active application" in "Options/Preferences". Constantly redrawing the thumbnails in the Media Pool can take a lot of time.
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Randy Brown wrote on 1/8/2004, 6:43 AM
Hey dcrandall,
Are there any disadvantages of doing this that you can think of?
It would be nice if the thumbnails didn't have to be redrawn every time I scroll them.
TIA,
Randy
dcrandall wrote on 1/8/2004, 9:06 AM
The file would need to be closed if you are going to use an external editor to edit any of the media shown in the media pool.

-Dan
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rebel44 wrote on 1/8/2004, 11:15 AM
If you did defrag the Vegas drop the video pretty quick. The audio what takes more time. It does depend how much adio you are putting in
kevgl wrote on 1/8/2004, 5:20 PM
Hi guys

I had "Close media files when not the active application" unchecked anyway - did that a week ago when the redraws were going real slow.

Strange thing is, the problem has now gone away. I can drop quickly onto the timeline although an undo still takes a little while (I can live with that).

Not sure what fixed it. A bit like the audio problem I was having in another thread, it suddenly just stopped after a reboot. This problem was still around after the reboot though. Suddenly noticed it had gone at some stage.

Cheers
kevgl wrote on 1/8/2004, 10:36 PM
Hi again

Been editing all day, suddenly the same problem occurs. Close Vegas, open again and it's gone.

Anyone else seen this? At least it seems easy to fix, but a pain nevertheless (takes a fair while to reopen this project).

Is more RAM likely to help?

Cheers
farss wrote on 1/9/2004, 1:18 AM
Your Raid 0 could be causing some problems.
If you're using mobo raid 0 it's probably working against you as it uses a lot of CPU resource. Not only that, I found it damn unreliable.
kevgl wrote on 1/9/2004, 1:29 AM
There are two Raid0s

The other project I have just finished is on a Mobo SATA Raid0. It never missed a beat. Halfway through that project I was running out of space so added a PCI Promise Fastrak100TX2000. This then had another 100Gig of data added to it and didn't miss a beat (that project took 4-5 months to complete)

This project is all on the Fastrak as I still have the MB Raid pretty full of the earlier projects files ...