Vegas Video 4 Preview Quality

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Ok, can someone else who is well seasoned in Vegas Help me here.
I've done some lengthy full blown projects with Vegas in the last
couple years & I love it!!!
I built a special PC with the best of the best (within reason) just for
my video editing.
BUT
I still can't use Vegas Preview Quality on anything other than Draft.
Sure I can edit with draft mode (going to my offline tv monitor)
But Why even have preview, good & best when they are practially
unusable. They drop so many frames it's like watching a slide show.
I only use them when I pause the movie, switch to best just to see how
sharp my movie actually is or will be when rendered.

I have Pentium 3.0 Ghz 800fsb
1 Gig Corsair Ram
Asus P4P800 Deluxe Mobo
74Gig SATA 10,000 RPM Raptor Drive
(along with 2 other storage drives SATA&PATA)
ATI 9600 AIW Video Card

All I want to know is that is this can't do any better than my old
Duron AMD 800Ghz system. (I hear the preview is all CPU load)
Then what do I need. I understand and accept the fact that frames will
drop and hardware isn't good enough to support say the "Best"
but anything better than draft!
Is there a computer out there that will not drop frames (noticably)
even in "Preview" or "Good" mode???

Anyone Experienced Know?

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Wow!
Do you think this has anything to do with it.
I'm not viewing it in the little monitor preview window.
I'm using a firewire to a CANOPUS AVDC100 Digital/Analog converter and
displaying it on a seperate TV Monitor.
I could turn the sofware monitor back on and see what it looks like
there, but if my memory serves me,
there wan't much difference.
Oh Yeah and to answer your question, No, at most I may have 3 video
clips channels stacked for a cool effect or something but usually it's
one video channel & one audio channel.


Rick

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Is the "Recompress edited frames" enabled? It's under Options -
Preferences - Video Device.

Mike


Rick wrote:
> Wow!
> Do you think this has anything to do with it.
> I'm not viewing it in the little monitor preview window.
> I'm using a firewire to a CANOPUS AVDC100 Digital/Analog converter and
> displaying it on a seperate TV Monitor.
> I could turn the sofware monitor back on and see what it looks like
> there, but if my memory serves me,
> there wan't much difference.
> Oh Yeah and to answer your question, No, at most I may have 3 video
> clips channels stacked for a cool effect or something but usually it's
> one video channel & one audio channel.
>
>
> Rick

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Rick wrote:
> Well it is checked.
> If I uncheck it, then nothing gets sent to the monitor.
> Any other Ideas? I just can't believe that people are actually using
> "Best" Full with an external monitor.
> There must be a setting or license or something not right with my
> vegas software I believe.
> Because the computer is fast on everything else, and benchmark
> programs give it real high scores.
>
> Again, any other ideas of what it could be?


I'll check the settings on my Vegas suite at the office tomorrow as I don't
have an external monitor here at home. I'll get back to you (very late)
tomorrow night.

Mike

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Rick wrote:
> Thanks Mike.
> If this helps the diagnosis, The slow preview looks the same in both
> the on-screen preview and the firewire
> connected monitor. both look like a slide show in "best" mode. and a
> little faster slide show in Preview mode.


There's definitely something weird going on with your system. A computer as
fast as yours should be flying though a preview. Is your email address
valid if I send you an email from work on Thursday?

In the meantime, you may want to try a post to the Sony Vegas forum at
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures. [...] mID=4&ms=1
There are a number of folks a lot more knowledgeable about Vegas than I am
who will have suggestions I haven't thought of.

Mike

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Your video card really shouldn't have anything to do with it. I finally got
around to trying it at the office (P4, 3.4Ghz, 1.5 gig of RAM) and, while I
can't get full frame playback unless I do a ram render, it's definitely not
as slow as what you're getting. I hope the Sony forum has some answers for
you. Sorry :-(

Mike


Rick wrote:
> Thank you very much.
> I'll post there and see what I find.
>
> also, Maybe there is something going on with my video card.
> (I've never been happy with it, it comes with a video capture
> capability
> and it is so macrovision sensitive that even my old home movies, that
> I try
> to digitize are seen as copywritten material and give the typical
> macrovision
> color/darkness imaging garbage)
> PS my email is correct.
>
> Thanks,
> I'll post my findings.
> Rick