Video Properties

[biferi]

I have Win10 with an i CPU with 4. Cores.
And I have 8. GB of System RAM.
And I have an External Graphics Card with 4. GB of OnBoard RAM.

I have Movie Studio 15. and need some help with a Setting?

In Options then Properties I Click the Video Tab.

There is a Setting that Says
Dynamic RAM Preview.

And it Says 200 MB in the Window.
What number would I Type in here to have it use the Full 4. GB that I have on my Video Card?
Would I Type 4000 in the Window?

[poisondeathray]

Dynamic RAM preview has nothing to do with GPU directly.

It's used to prerender complex projects, so you can preview them in real time. It's essentially a pre-rendered cache. eg. if you have very slow filters, dozens of layers, vegas won't preview in real time.

You mark a loop region to the area you want to preview and hit shift+b to activate it. How much you set depends on your project details and how much memory you have. If you don' t use ram preview when you edit, you don't even need to set it


(You should use a more descriptive title in the future e.g. "Dynamic Ram preview settings in sony vegas movie studio 15" ; because "video properties" is a very vague title and might apply to something else, other programs)

[Cornucopia]

I would STRONGLY recommend, that if you aren't having an explicit problem, or that you haven't been explicitly directed to do so by the manual or other expert (including here), that you do NOT just go changing the defaults. Particularly if you are unsure of their consequences. Most defaults are designed to work well enough for newbies.


Scott

[johnmeyer]

Dynamic RAM preview has nothing to do with GPU directly.

It's used to prerender complex projects, so you can preview them in real time. It's essentially a pre-rendered cache. eg. if you have very slow filters, dozens of layers, vegas won't preview in real time.

+1

Since this is CPU RAM memory and NOT GPU memory, anything you allocate will not be available for other Vegas activities. If you aren't using the pre-render option, and didn't know what it really did until now, you can just leave it at 300 MB. However, if you have lots of really complex composites or use a lot of fX which slow down the timeline playback, or if you want to preview at Best instead of Good or lower quality, then doing what poisondeathray describes will provide you with a nifty new feature that will help you immensely.

I only deal with HD (and SD, once in awhile), but not 4K. Most of the time I only have to pre-render 5-10 seconds, for a transition or something similar. I find that something around 1,000 MB works well (I use Vegas Pro, but I assume this will be similar in Studio).