[TChris]

I have the following system:

Self-built
AMD Athlon 2600+ CPU on ECS N2U400A mobo (nForce2 chipset)
1 GB DDR333 RAM
120 GB Western Digital IDE HDD
XFX GeForce 6800XT AGP 8x graphics w/256MB
Windows 2000 Pro w/SP4 etc.

It's not cutting-edge, but certainly should be sufficient.

I'm working with a smallish (1.2 GB) MPEG file in Video Wave. The program is VERY sluggish (I'm not even sure if Drag-n-Drop is supported in EMC9 like it was in EMC7.5). I check my task manager, and VCGProxyFileMan is using 70-90% of the CPU. It has been for nearly HALF AN HOUR NOW.

I hesitate to even TRY a larger project, for fear the ProxyFileMan will hijack the computer for a day or two while it does whatever it does.

-Terry

[gi7omy]

Go to start, run and type in msconfig

In the startup section, disable Roxwatchtray9 - reboot and tell the nag screen you know you disabled a startup program and kindly go away and don't ask me again

That will stop MediaWatch from kicking in which is the main offender in hogging resources

However, you must be aware that rendering a video is a very time consuming process and it does hog the CPU as if there was no tomorrow. On my own machine, I reckon on at least the actual time duration for the clip for the rendering time. If your mpeg file is 1 hour in duration, then expect at least that for rendering.

Me? I go watch some TV while it renders

This post has been edited by gi7omy: 09 February 2007 - 06:20 PM

[TChris]

gi7omy, on Feb 9 2007, 07:20 PM, said:

Go to start, run and type in msconfig

In the startup section, disable Roxwatchtray9 - reboot and tell the nag screen you know you disabled a startup program and kindly go away and don't ask me again

That will stop MediaWatch from kicking in which is the main offender in hogging resources

However, you must be aware that rendering a video is a very time consuming process and it does hog the CPU as if there was no tomorrow. On my own machine, I reckon on at least the actual time duration for the clip for the rendering time. If your mpeg file is 1 hour in duration, then expect at least that for rendering.

Me? I go watch some TV while it renders

Thanks for the advice. But you apparently didn't read what I wrote.

I don't have MediaWatch running. I already killed that program.

The hog was VCGProxyFileMan; I checked that in Task Manager.

And, I wasn't rendering. I was just trying to edit (adding a transition, at the time). The project has only one video source, which isn't even a very big file.

So, while your advice is all very good, none of it applies to my problem.

Thanks,
Terry

[ggrussell]

But you are editing an MPEG file which is compressed. These files must be uncompressed on-the-fly for editing.

[REDWAGON]

Terry: check any one of the website searches shown below and you will get a load of information that has been discussed on the forum on this same subject.

http://www.google.com/search?q=VCGproxyfil...en&filter=0

Frank...

[myguggi]

TChris, on Feb 9 2007, 10:33 PM, said:

Thanks for the advice. But you apparently didn't read what I wrote.

I don't have MediaWatch running. I already killed that program.

The hog was VCGProxyFileMan; I checked that in Task Manager.

And, I wasn't rendering. I was just trying to edit (adding a transition, at the time). The project has only one video source, which isn't even a very big file.

So, while your advice is all very good, none of it applies to my problem.

Thanks,
Terry

Have you done a defrag of your hard drive lately?

Check out this post on the same question.

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...+the+Background

This post has been edited by myguggi: 09 February 2007 - 07:51 PM

[BradG]

Have you done a defrag of your hard drive lately?

Check out this post on the same question.

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...+the+Background

Terry,

Did you ever figure out the answer to this problem? I am having the same problem.

Thanks,
... Brad

[grandpabruce]

Terry,

Did you ever figure out the answer to this problem? I am having the same problem.

Thanks,
... Brad

He, like some other "hit and run" posters decided not to post with the results of what was suggested to him.