VMSHDP10 Can't be THIS BAD... Can It??

trgtc wrote on 4/4/2011, 3:55 PM
Hi Guys, I sure hope I'm just doing something wrong... I'm having a devil of a time trying to get Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10.0 to work right. The problem I'm having is that the preview screen is SLOW and choppy. When I play a clip, the audio is fine, but the video is more like a slide show, only changing about one frame for every two seconds or so. The video files I am working with are AVI 640x480 or 320x240 30fps from a Canon Powershot S5IS.

When I first started using it, before I started reading through the messages here and changing settings, I was lucky to get one frame in five to ten seconds! The thing that made the biggest difference so far was to go into the INTERNALS part of the preferences and set "Enable Multi-Core Rendering For Playback" to FALSE.

My Specs - Windows XP Pro SP3 booting with /3GB switch, Dell Dimension 8300 with Pentium4 "Northwoods" 3.4 GHz HT enabled, 4 Gig DDR1 RAM, NVidia 6200 Video board feeding two monitors, SATA HD, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card.

I should also point out that VMSP 9.0B works fine on this machine. I'm SO glad I didn't uninstall it!

Any help you can give is greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Jon

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Eugenia wrote on 4/4/2011, 7:55 PM
Vegas Platinum 10 has a newly introduced bug where *some* ffdshow AVI codecs, like the MJPEG one you're using here, don't behave properly. I don't remember if it's fixed in Pro 10 or not, but I remember Platinum 10 having it.

I had done a bug report about it last year, but Platinum 10 never had any free update version anyway...

Use Platinum 9 for this type of MJPEG AVI format instead.
trgtc wrote on 4/15/2011, 3:26 PM
Hi Eugenia, Thanks for confirming the bug, though I wish you had better news for me than "Use Platinum 9..." I was kind of looking forward to using the new software I paid for.

Oh well, I guess I don't have much choice, until somone comes up with a fix.
drguitar0001 wrote on 4/16/2011, 7:21 PM
Don't hold your breath. Sony tech promised an "imminent" fix back in June of 2010. Just recently (about 3 weeks ago) I was told by Sony Support that the fixes for VMS 10 will be coming out in version 11 (whenever that is).

Good luck.