First let me say thanks to everyone that has helped me get past my last two problems with VMS and in both cases they were easy configuration options changes. And to be fair, there are a LOT of options!
Now the current problem.
I have started putting together my DVD for the footage I recorded during HOT ROD Magazine's Drag Week 2007 in which I participated. My problem is that VMS freaks out and crashes when I drag all of the video clips to the Video Bar. I probably have somewhere around 230 clips totalling 11.3 GB of MPEG2 footage I am adding.
I suspect that it is a memory issue. I have 2GB of memory in my Dual Core Dell and watch the Physical memory climb in the Windows Task Manager to 1.8GB and hang there for a long time.
And while we're talking about memory usage in VMS 8.0b, why does it seem to allocate so much memory to the project (relative to the number/size of the clips and then free that memory when the window loses focus, then have to rescan and reallocate again when it again focused? For example, I have half of the 320 clips in there and while I type this message in the browser, my memory sits at 668MB. I click on the VMS window and it takes 96 seconds to remove the hourglass while the memory pegs out at 1.99GB During that time it is totally unresponsive. As soon as I click back in the browser to continue typing this message, the entire block of memory is freed. If I go back to VMS I then have to wait that 96 seconds before I can do anything.
Also, it appears not to accept more than 255 clips at one time. Anything over this number just appears as (media offline) when it is not. What is the magic cure for this, do I merge clips together?
There, enough ramblings while I search for solutions.
John
Now the current problem.
I have started putting together my DVD for the footage I recorded during HOT ROD Magazine's Drag Week 2007 in which I participated. My problem is that VMS freaks out and crashes when I drag all of the video clips to the Video Bar. I probably have somewhere around 230 clips totalling 11.3 GB of MPEG2 footage I am adding.
I suspect that it is a memory issue. I have 2GB of memory in my Dual Core Dell and watch the Physical memory climb in the Windows Task Manager to 1.8GB and hang there for a long time.
And while we're talking about memory usage in VMS 8.0b, why does it seem to allocate so much memory to the project (relative to the number/size of the clips and then free that memory when the window loses focus, then have to rescan and reallocate again when it again focused? For example, I have half of the 320 clips in there and while I type this message in the browser, my memory sits at 668MB. I click on the VMS window and it takes 96 seconds to remove the hourglass while the memory pegs out at 1.99GB During that time it is totally unresponsive. As soon as I click back in the browser to continue typing this message, the entire block of memory is freed. If I go back to VMS I then have to wait that 96 seconds before I can do anything.
Also, it appears not to accept more than 255 clips at one time. Anything over this number just appears as (media offline) when it is not. What is the magic cure for this, do I merge clips together?
There, enough ramblings while I search for solutions.
John