-For each test, Videowave (VW) was restarted.
-Computer has total of 8G of RAM.
-For each test, Export was run on the same slideshow multiple times.
-Numbers following "Export" indicate the gigabytes of storage in use when Export finished.
-In each test, black screens only showed up after storage in use was about 1G higher than when
Videowave was started.
Test 1: 7 photos (.12M, 7.69M, 5.81M, 6.91M, 4.81M, .1M, 3.88M)
No transitions or music.
Started VW, 2.12G in use
Gig in use after each successive Export
2.20
2.25
2.31
2.37
2.44
Test 2: 6 photos in order from small to large (.1M, 3.84M, 4.25M, 5.47M, 6.47M, 7.69M)
No transitions or music.
Started VW, 2.13G in use
Gig in use after each successive Export
2.23
2.33
2.42
2.52
2.62
2.72
2.82
2.92
3.01
3.10
3.21 black screens
3.21
Test 3: 6 photos in order from large to small (7.69M, 6.03M, 5.47M, 4.78M, 3.81M, .12M)
No transitions or music.
Started VW, 2.13G in use
Gig in use after each successive Export
2.21
2.25
2.31
2.37
2.42
2.49
2.53
2.58
2.64
Test 4: 8 photos all the same - large (7.69M)
No transitions or music.
Started VW, 2.13G in use
Gig in use after each successive Export
2.19
2.24
2.35
2.45
2.55
2.66
2.75
2.85
2.95
3.05
3.16 (black screens here)
3.16
Test 5: 7 large photos (7.69M), 1 small (.1M)
No transitions or music.
Started VW, 2.15G in use
Gig in use after each successive Export
2.20
2.26
2.31
2.37
2.44
2.49
At this point, loaded another slideshow containing 70 photos of varying sizes.
Slideshow includes transitions and music.
Last photo of this show is 4.38M.
2.52
2.73
2.93
3.08 (black screens here)