VMS 10 "not responding" and video preview problems

dan-hedrick wrote on 6/22/2011, 7:20 AM
I have a large slide show project..38 minutes long, with music, transitions, panning cropping, text overlays, etc I was working fine until a few days ago. When I preview the project, the "video portion" hangs up on a particular photo but the music keeps playing. Eventually (about 60 - 90 seconds later) the video catches up with the music....only to happen again.
I also get continuous "Not Responding" indications that hang up the video (slide show) for about 2 minutes before continuing.
VMS has also been taking very long to load my projects....10- 15 minutes sometimes.
I have not added any new hardware or programs recently.
I have had VMS 10 for several months and have made several other similar videos (slide shows) with no problems.


Possible related problems:
My computer hangs up on shut down....and on installing windows updates and I have to manually turn off power.

My specs: HP Pavilion Elite HPE-112y PC, AMD Phenom II X4 925 Quadcore processor, 8 GB Ram, 1 terabite HD, Graphics card ATI Radeon HD4350, Windows 7 Home Premium

Would it help if I reinstall VMS 10? If so, do I have to uninstall it first or can I just install over the existing copy? Will my video still be intact if I reinstall?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

lcdrdan

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/22/2011, 8:32 AM
There are likely two problems, lc.

1) Have you resized all of the photos to no larger than 1000x750 pixels? Photos larger than this can overload the program since, even though the photos small in your project, the program is having to deal with all of those extra pixels -- which, if you took your photos directly from a camera, can be 15 to 20 times more than the program needs to create a video!

2) You likely need to pre-render your project. 40 minutes is a lot of unrendered video -- and photos ALWAYS need to be rendered, since they are not a true video source. Try selecting your entire timeline and selecting Selectively Pre-Render from the Tools menu. This process will take a while as the program turns all of your non-video work into video -- but, ultimately, you'll be able to work with your video again because you'll be freeing up resources that were rendering all of your slides on the fly.

But first resize the photos to 1000x750 pixels in size. That's very important.

I explain a lot more of these kinds of why's and how's in my book (available on Amazon.com) by the way, if you're interested.
dan-hedrick wrote on 6/22/2011, 9:01 AM
Steve:
Thank you VERY MUCH for your quick response. i have a few more questions...if you don't mind.
1. Can I "mass resize" the photos already in the slide show? (if so, how do I do it?).
I have to leave for a meeting, so will have to check this out when I get back.

Do you think think this could be causing other related computer problems..eg hangups on shutdown?

Thanks again.

lcdrdan
Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/22/2011, 10:54 AM
If you're talking about problems with your computer even when you're not using Vegas MS -- I don't know. But here's a free tune-up tool I use weekly that's amazing for keeping my PC running like new:
http://www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcareper.html

As for batch resizing, many photo editing programs have a batch resizing tool. In Photoshop Elements, for instance, under the File menu, there is a tool called Process Multiple Files.

dan-hedrick wrote on 6/24/2011, 10:30 AM
Thanks again for your responses. I batched resized all photos and it works....except for one more problem.
I have one photo that is in VMS that shows up as a black screen in DVDA rendered video. This particular photo is on view for about 13 seconds while it is panned across from left to right. (it works fine in the VMS preview ....but shows up blank in DVDA. The music during this time is uninterrupted.

Thanks again for all your help.

lcdrdan