VMS10 Performance

JamieW wrote on 7/7/2010, 9:59 AM

Hi,

I recently upgraded to VMS 10 Platinum HD, and I'm having problems with the speed at which it performs certain actions. For example, if I drag an episode of a show onto the timeline, split it in half and delete one half, there's a 3-4 second delay (sometimes more), and the program is frozen for those few seconds. The files I drag onto the timeline are usually around 350MB .AVI files. So basically what I'm asking is: how can I speed up the performance of VMS? Any help would be much appreciated!

Jamie

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 7/7/2010, 11:21 AM

350MB is a really tiny file. If it was standard DV .avi that would only be about 95 seconds' worth. That means that it must be extremely compressed and probably by some very dense codec that might not be easy to work with. Vegas probably doesn't have that codec itself so you may be relying on some 3rd party, poorly written one.

Where are these files coming from? What's encoding them? Do you know what codec they are?

musicvid10 wrote on 7/7/2010, 11:30 AM

I'll hazard a guess here. Are they DivX/Xvid files you got off the internet? If so there is nothing much you can do about that.

MSmart wrote on 7/7/2010, 11:35 AM

PC specs?

You didn't see the same slowness in your previous version of VMS? Which version?

As you see by the previous two posts, avi files can be multiple things. DV-AVI or other. It helps to indicate specifically the video format.

Oh, and welcome to the forum.

JamieW wrote on 7/7/2010, 11:39 AM

Yes, they are DivX/Xvid files, and typically about 42 minutes long.

I didn't experience this problem with VMS 8, which is why I found it strange. That version is fairly speedy and I've never had a problem with it.

PC Specs:

2GB Ram, Windows Vista 32-bit... any other information that would help?

Chienworks wrote on 7/7/2010, 11:43 AM

Have you upgraded DivX recently? I'm up to the latest version on one PC and it's become really clunky. The other "twin" PC is still at last fall's version and it runs spiffy. Save version of Vegas on both.

JamieW wrote on 7/7/2010, 12:09 PM

I haven't actually upgraded DivX in quite a while so I don't think that's the issue... tried updating it just then too but it didn't help. Another thing is that when I click a certain part of a clip, it takes ages to go to that frame. Everything else appears to run smoothly.