VMS gets slower and slower......

seredie wrote on 4/6/2007, 6:12 PM
Hello and HELP !
I am desperate. I bought VMS 6.0b and in the beginning it worked really fine. Suddenly it takes minutes on every click I make ! If I'm too fast (meaning clicking twice after a few seconds) VMS will just stop working and the task manager indicates a message that VMS is not corresponding. After a few minutes VMS will continue to work, but honestly working like this is getting me nowhere. ! Is there someone else that encountered the same problem ? My pc works fine except when using VMS. Is there a way to make reduce the capacity VMS is needing on my pc ? Please help me, I desperately need to finish a movie and I am only in the middle of it. Thanks in advance for every help
seredie

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Chienworks wrote on 4/6/2007, 6:41 PM
What sorts of things are you using in your project? Are you using lots of large still images or MPEG files?
seredie wrote on 4/7/2007, 12:52 AM
Thanks Chienworks for your reply. There are no still images, but movies; vob files (mpeg2) approx. size 1 GB each. I intend to cut out most parts and join them into one project. What I don't understand is that I got a hugh project in no time by cutting out parts of about 10 imported files (which means 10 times 1 GB). Why suddenly VMS is giving me problem, not by loading the hugh project but simply after loading one file. The CPU is going up to 100% after every click I make ! Please help me. Thanks so much.
MSmart wrote on 4/8/2007, 9:12 PM
When is the last time you restarted your PC? If the problem happened "suddenly" as you say, a restart may take care of it.
seredie wrote on 4/9/2007, 10:31 AM
Thanks SMart, but I start my PC every day......besides, I have just "renewed" my pc with HighjackThis, Security Task Manager a some other programms of course under "supervision" of experts. Am I really the only person who has this problem ? VMS is such a great programm, it worked great when I was using the trial-version. Now that I bought the full version I am desperate..... I really don't use any other application while using VMS and have put to manual the automatic printer queue that usually thakes up a lot of space.... so I get to the conclusion that the problem is VMS indeed ! Any other suggestion that may help me ?
Thanks in advance
seredie
MSmart wrote on 4/9/2007, 2:18 PM
OK then. Tell us a little about your PC, what processor - speed, how much RAM, how big are your disk drives and how much available space do they have?

Do you need all the files in the timeline at once? Can you get away with editing a few of them at a time redering the output to an AVI file, repeat with the others then use those AVIs in DVDAS to create your DVD?
Action wrote on 4/10/2007, 5:01 AM
Try defragging your C drive, closing everything you don't need including your anti-virus. And you should have your VMS program files on an external hard drive.
seredie wrote on 4/10/2007, 12:52 PM
Thanks MSmart for your interest
Well here some infos of my pc; Intel PentiumR 4 2.40GHz Prozessor, I have cable modem at speed 4 Mbps, 512 MB RAM, my local drive is 111 GB (90 GB left) and my external drive is 250 GB (160 GB left) and thats where I have stored all my big files incuding the sony programm.
Initially the reason for having all the files into one project was that I intended to burn the project directly to a DVD, to prevent from rendering and having a quality loss. Now I have decided to add some subtitles which make me follow your suggestion to make rendering. Thanks for that idea. Unfortunately that doesn't solve my problem. The difference between before having this problem is that I could click on various positions of the movie in the timeline and VMS immediately showed the corresponding frame on the preview window. Now on every click to a different position on the timeline would make VMS start to "search" for the frame, i.e. underneath the preview window the frame nr would follow ...... ...... these points indicating that VMS is searching. Since this "searching" lasts each time about 1 minute, then VMS would stop responding completely and after another 30 sec. would be ready again......I am really puzzled. Maybe you have any idea what could cause VMS to take such a long time to make the preview from one frame to another.
Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate.
seredie

Thanks Action you are right, I just defragged with TuneUp2007 and hoooo daren't say how many errors where found. Actually yes, I have VMS on my external F drive. I was left with 5 % space on my C drive when I decided to buy an external drive before my pc would go bye bye. Thanks again for your concern, you are very kind.