I might suggest using MP3 direct cut for editing MP3 files. It's very fast,
and you don't have to convert the files. It doesn't have a lot of the
features that a program like sound forge has but it is very reliable.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Jacobson
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 9:32 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: RE: Need Help with Sound Forge Pro 11
Bob,
These are all very good points. I'd like to explain a bit more about my
earlier response in case it helps Kelly.
I was editing a four hour MP3 file over the weekend, and I was finding
everything to be very sluggish including
moving through the file with PGUP and PGDN. Since I had worked with some
other large files in SF 11 I wondered
what had changed. It turned out that I had generally worked with WAV files
before. I saved my MP3 file as a WAV
file and worked on it in that format and much of the sluggishness I was
experiencing was gone. Of course,
converting an MP3 file to WAV doesn't make it sound any better, but it did
make a large difference in my ability
to move around in the file. It may be my imagination as it is not that easy
to verify this, but I believe that
saving a file takes longer in SF 11 than it did in SF 10 or before, but I
could be experiencing something else, or
it could be the added overhead that you mention. It has been my experience
that heavy file activity can lock out
screen readers or make them not responsive, so saving a file might be
causing the appearance of loosing speech.
Sometimes starting NVDA or Narrator can help one figure out what is
happening.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:13:34 +1000, Robert Nelson wrote:
SF 11 is a far more complex program than SF 6. The way that SF handles the
file being edited has changed because it is now a multi-channel editor and
every time you do something that causes SF to write out the edited files to
protect you from yourself, it takes time to complete the process.
How quick the process will be is dependent on the read/write speed of your
hard disk. If you are working on a large file, that is to say, 4 or 5 hour
mp3, then it will appear to be slow.
The only setting that you might change is the location of temporary files.
If you use a separate drive for the temporary files, there may be some gain
but that will depend on the read/write sppeed.
And, no, using a solid state drive will not really improve things that much
because the Windows way of reading and writing to disk pretty well negates
any gain there may be in using a SSD.
The mp3 codec does appear to be slower than in SF 6 but you must remember
that the program is doing a lot more processing than SF 6 did.
Opening, editing and saving in wav format may be slightly quicker but you
will eventually have to convert it to mp3.
However, I find that for files of an hour or less the performance is on a
par with SF 8D.
The moral of the story may well be that the Sony people did not anticipate
that SF would be used to edit 7 or 8 hour long files.
Bob Nelson
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Kelly
Sapergia
Sent: Sunday, 13 July 2014 1:38 PM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: Need Help with Sound Forge Pro 11
Hi,
After recently getting a new 64-bit PC with Windows 7 Professional, I
decided to upgrade Sound Forge from 6.0D (which I've used for a number of
years) to the latest version, Pro 11. However, I've noticed that this new
version seems to be rather sluggish when compared to 6.0D.
For instance, if I have two files loaded, and I switch to the other file by
either using the Window menu or pressing Control+Tab, it seems to take
awhile before I can do anything again. With 6.0D, going to a new window was
instantaneous. There have also been times where I'll be doing some editing,
and the program will seem to freeze for a couple minutes. When this
happens,
I lose speech, but can Alt+Tab to another program, such as WinAmp.
Eventually, everything works fine again, but I find this very frustrating.
If anyone else is using this version, have you experienced these issues?
Are
there any settings I should adjust to make it work more smoothly?
Thanks.
Yours Sincerely,
Kelly John Sapergia
Show Host and Production Director
The Global Voice Internet Radio
http://www.theglobalvoice.info
Personal Website: http://www.ksapergia.net
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