I am a geek and so I am a bit embarrased to be asking this question. I just rendered a 7 min. slide show in VV3 with music and it took me 1 hour 2 min. ouch. I want to spell out my environment and see if I am missing something.
First off the video had dissolves between each shot. There where about 12 key framed motion shots and about 12 photos were cropped. I title (10secs) and no track filters or fx.
I was watching CPU useage and found it up and down. I would guess it was at sporadically at 100% maybe 40-50% of the time. Other wise it was spiking up and down. It would drop to <10% for like 10-15 seconds and the system disk would just gind away. Then it would jump up and the grinding would not be as intense (from what I can hear, it's a loud drive). Mem Usage was at 685,352k / 739,824k. After the render the mem dropped down to 528,296k. I still had photoshop running idle.
What stuck me is how much the system disk was grinding away. My Sys disk is sitting on IDE1 master, It's a ata100, 5500 rpm Maxtor. nothing else on IDE1. IDE2 has a Sony DRU500a DVDr on as master, again ata100. nothing else on IDE2. IDE3 (Sil IDE card ata133) master has a 7200rpm IBM 120gig HD as master and a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 80gig hd as slave. Both ata133. The IBM has my video and audio data on it. The Seagate has Vegas on it. As you can tell I have 3/4 gig of ram ddr 2100. I am running Win2k (with updates). Both the Sys disk and the IBM are Fat32 and the IBM is NTFS. Before my render I closed and opened Vegas. The computer had been rebooted 2 hours before rendering (the editing session). The mobo is an Epox 8kha+ running the Via KT266/a chipset. The IBM is new. The Seagate is 7 months old and the Maxtor has been around the blook. I have not run defrag. What am I missing. Why is windows going to virtual memory if I still have ram left? Any help??
Thanks
jack
First off the video had dissolves between each shot. There where about 12 key framed motion shots and about 12 photos were cropped. I title (10secs) and no track filters or fx.
I was watching CPU useage and found it up and down. I would guess it was at sporadically at 100% maybe 40-50% of the time. Other wise it was spiking up and down. It would drop to <10% for like 10-15 seconds and the system disk would just gind away. Then it would jump up and the grinding would not be as intense (from what I can hear, it's a loud drive). Mem Usage was at 685,352k / 739,824k. After the render the mem dropped down to 528,296k. I still had photoshop running idle.
What stuck me is how much the system disk was grinding away. My Sys disk is sitting on IDE1 master, It's a ata100, 5500 rpm Maxtor. nothing else on IDE1. IDE2 has a Sony DRU500a DVDr on as master, again ata100. nothing else on IDE2. IDE3 (Sil IDE card ata133) master has a 7200rpm IBM 120gig HD as master and a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 80gig hd as slave. Both ata133. The IBM has my video and audio data on it. The Seagate has Vegas on it. As you can tell I have 3/4 gig of ram ddr 2100. I am running Win2k (with updates). Both the Sys disk and the IBM are Fat32 and the IBM is NTFS. Before my render I closed and opened Vegas. The computer had been rebooted 2 hours before rendering (the editing session). The mobo is an Epox 8kha+ running the Via KT266/a chipset. The IBM is new. The Seagate is 7 months old and the Maxtor has been around the blook. I have not run defrag. What am I missing. Why is windows going to virtual memory if I still have ram left? Any help??
Thanks
jack