Vegas 6

Im pretty sure its not meant to be like this, but when I try to preview my project, which Ive edited, in the preview window, its all sticky. just wont play smoothly.

It used to only do this during fades, then if I played it a few times it will play alright.
Now its doing it at certain points, especially on fades and during switches between different clips, it will like stall, then speed up quickly, like im running alot of programmes, but im not.

Its just annoying when im tryna sync the video to beats
Anyway of fixing this? Thanks.

did you pre-render?

highlight the parts that skip, hit

CTRL+M

Be sure to pre-render loop region only.

it shoud go smooth, but if you make changes, you need to prerender agin.

Ok yeah that worked, thanks

But Ive only just started it, so is there no way to just get it running smoothly? as it makes it harder just to match a beat.

This way is fine, I guess, I'll just delete the other video and audio tracks now, but it just seems a bit awquard.

If you have a powerful computer, you won't need to do that at all.

Or you may only have to do that when there's heavy effects or transitions.

I can edit entire skits without prerendering. It's just for lower end machines.

Hmmm, well my processor maybe the only thing thats letting it down.
Here's my specs:

1024MB DDR Ram
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+
2.4Ghz
400GB HD
Ati Radeon 9800+ Pro

Is that ok?
What about when you right click on the preview window, then go to; Preview Device Prefs > Video, and theres some options there. Anything I can do with the prefs which will make it run better? Ive tryed a few things.
Thanks dude!

Well your comp. certainly should handle it. I've got a suped up E-machines with a 2.2 ghz athlon, 512 Ram, and 300gig HD, with a 128 DDR grafix card, (my back up comp.), and it doesn't even require pre-rendering.

There are different options at which you can play back your timeline. You might have that set to the highest setting or something, just mess with that.

If it's still doing that bullshit, maybe you should run some virus/spyware/adwar programs, cuz with those specs, it should be running very smoothly/.

Thanks for the help dude.
Ok, so where are these options, for playing back the timeline??

Yeah, I just scanned with Norton and Spysweeper yesterday, found no viruses, and deleted a few cookies and spyware so its all good now.
My computers running fine, plus im only editing WMV's, not like huge AVI files, if that makes a difference.

Thanks a bagillion!

EDIT:
Ah crap, this might be why:
I captured on my footage in AVI's, then someone told me to convert to Divx files I did that but lost a huge amount of quality, and Vegas couldnt pick up the sound, so I finally found a WMV converter so I can convert them all to WMV so I get sound in Vegas, that worked now its not so good quality, but 5Mb/s, I just dragged one of my Avi files into the timeline, added some fades and it ran smoothly, so I guess ill have to chance converting the WMVs to 2mb/s or something which will take ages, argh.

Thanks for help though.

Wait what?! Why aren't you just editing with the raw .avi footage your capture program captures in?

NEVER edit with compressed footage if you don't have to! That just complicates shit!

Haha yeah, well there was loads of it, so loads of GB, even though I have a load I dont like it flooded.
But most of it was just standing around, or nothing good happening and I couldnt be assed cutting it down into smaller files, although I wish I would of now, as I had that problem with it not creating scenes during capture.

But yeah anyways im just gonna capture again, and try and get the good bits, I might miss a few good things out but at least its gonna be good quality. Fair late now aswell, but fuck school im re-capturing it alll.
Thanks for your kind help

you need more hard drive space!

Killing the quality of your footage isn't an option man. And if you have 300 gigs on your PC, why are you having such problem?! 300 gigs is alot of captured tapes!