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OhMyGosh wrote on 1/20/2010, 9:46 AM
The 're-freshing' you are refering to I believe is caused by a lack of sufficient RAM, caching, or processor speed. It isn't a result of the program, but rather the computer. Hope that helps. Cin
eightyeightkeys wrote on 1/20/2010, 1:45 PM
Really ?

I have a 3.0P4 PC, hyperthreading ON, with 4 GB of RAM that is primarily used as a recording studio computer running loads of plug-ins and VST Instruments for audio without any problems at all, but, I guess it could be possible. Video is even more demanding and my computer is getting way old for this purpose. Anyone else think that this may be the case ?

So are you saying that you're stills and video clip thumbnails in the Project Media are instantaneous when scrolling to "unseen " clips?
dwatrous wrote on 1/20/2010, 2:55 PM
Mine flash too. I think they're trying to release file locks when Sony Vegas isn't the active window and also make sure that any file displayed in the Vegas preview window is the most up to date version. That's my take on it. Maybe OhMyGosh didn't understand exactly what you were saying.
richard-amirault wrote on 1/20/2010, 5:53 PM
I don't think it a Vegas "problem" .. I think it's a Windows "problem"
eightyeightkeys wrote on 1/21/2010, 7:12 AM
If it were a Windows problem, then, the same "re-freshing" of thumbnails behaviour would occur when scrolling within Windows Folders directly on my Hard Drive. This is not the case.
When scrolling in thumbnail view on my Hard Drive, Windows switches from detailed, list view to thumbnails instantly and remains "locked" in thumbnail view without even so much as a hint of thumbnails re-freshing during scrolling.
OhMyGosh wrote on 1/21/2010, 2:52 PM
Your computer would seem to be up to speed, so I would have to say after looking at it, that VMS simply doesn't cache the thumbnails, as say Windows does with their .thm files. Cin
eightyeightkeys wrote on 1/23/2010, 8:12 AM
I should add that this behaviour also exists on the timeline itself.

That is, when VMS first loads a project, all thumbnails representing video clips, photos, maps etc..... load and "re-fresh" on the timeline. That's fine, I accept that the project needs to load the very first time you instantiate it. No problem.

However, even after working with the project, if I zoom in or zoom out, or, scroll to "un-seen" clips on the timeline, each thumbnail needs to "re-load" from a blank "placer" to the fully represented thumbnail. That's just seems unnecessary to me.

We constantly zoom in/out, scroll back and forth, even the "Undo" causes the entire project to "re-load" with all Media Bins closing and a complete "re-freshing" of the thumbnails. That seems like an overly heavy duty Undo to me.

My daily work is in a recording studio as a composer using Cubase 5 on the same computer so I am very "familiar" with NLE's.
OhMyGosh wrote on 1/23/2010, 3:59 PM
There is no doubt that you are right. I also own Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and neither the thumbnails or timeline act that way. I still say it has to do with the way VMS caches/or doesn't, that is doing it. If you turn off thumbnail caching on your windows system, I believe your Window folders will behave the same way. Go to the top of this page, and under 'Support' fill out 'Product Suggestion.' Let us know if and what they say. Cin