rombsix -> Sony Vegas Pro issue + Computer issue (Dec. 25 2016 5:59:29)
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Hi all, This is a computer-related question. Perhaps Simon or other tech-savvy (particularly video editing) folks can offer some insight. I have this machine (see image) which I consider OK in terms of speed and performance. I have always been able to drag two videos (each with its audio) into Vegas so as to edit them for a split-screen or picture-in-picture effect (you know, one final product that has me playing the solo and an inset of me playing the chords). Vegas has a "live" preview window in it so you can see what is going on without having to render and look at the final product each time you make some adjustments to the project. At some point, my computer starting getting slow. I've had this machine about 4 or 5 years now. The problem started where I would at times play the video in Vegas to see how the preview looks, and the preview instead of playing smoothly would just freeze and I'd only see a frame or two here and there. I would usually get away with closing all other running apps and re-opening Vegas, and it'd work fine. Today, after some time of not having done two-video projects, I tried it (you can see the Argentine tango vals video I just uploaded in this section of the foro), and wow - Vegas was just DYING in the process. The preview window would just not work or be frozen completely, and the application would keep idling and becoming non-responsive each time I'd try to play the video to see how my edits are looking. Even rendering sort of got stuck and gave me an estimated duration of hours instead of just what would have been required of 2 or 3 minutes for a 2 minute video. Of course, I was able to get around all of this by saving the project multiple times and restarting Vegas with each edit because God knows I was NOT going to let the recording and preparation of this vals go to waste. [8D] Eventually I was able to get the final product out, but clearly this is NOT sustainable. Something is wrong... The other really weird thing (which has happened before - Simon, any thoughts?) is that I just could NOT sync the chords video with the solo video. I would get them synced up at the start, but as the video played, they would slowly drift away from each other as though one was getting faster than the other. I have NO CLUE how that was happening (I've had this issue in the past - can't remember if it was in the context of my previous PC also getting to the point of beginning to slow down). The process I used to create these videos is like I always do, as follows: 1- While listening to a metronome, record the chords video. 2- Play the chords video on my PC while listening to the sound via headphones. 3- While listening to the chords video play, I turn on my recording software and record myself playing the melody along to the backing of the chords video (thereby ensuring proper sync) 4- I sync them according to the first few notes played (using Vegas), and the rest of the video follows suit and is all in sync (no drifting phenomenon occurs) I did this as usual, however this time, I just had this problem of drifting / inability to sync, and barely keeping Vegas from crashing. Eventually what I had to do to sort of sync the videos (y'all can tell the first few seconds of the video are not 100% synced still, but whatever) was to cut each "section" of the melody and move them a bit to re-sync them with the chords video. Without this, I could only either sync the start of the videos or the ends of the videos together. I noticed that when (in the vals) the first "A major" part starts, the syncing goes perfectly until the end. Thus, I used that part (which is about 65% of the duration of the video) as is. Then for the first couple of sections of melody, I had to split the video into chunks, and move them a bit to get them to line up as well as possible with the chords video. This was NEVER necessary in the past, even though I've had this "drifting" problem before and I never could explain it and I don't remember how I fixed it (if any). Maybe that's when I bought this new computer. [8D] Anyway - what are your thoughts? The other issue I'm now having is with Firefox. I cannot start it anymore if there are any other apps running. I have to kill all apps, then start Firefox, and then I can start other apps (and all works fine - no crashing). However, if any other app is started (like iTunes, VLC, etc.), no matter how many times I try to start FF, it will just NOT start-up (and I'll see several instances of FF in the task manager because I've clicked it many times to try to nudge it into starting, but it rarely does or just does not unless I close all other apps and open FF alone). What are your thoughts on what might be going on? Is this a CPU issue? Is this something I can solve by getting more RAM (such as 32 GB instead of the current 16 GB)? Do I need a faster video card now? Is this a "virus" or some other crap that is slowing down my machine and causing these issues? I'd really appreciate your wisdom. Cheers!
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