Tim, That's a good suggestion. In my case, I was applying a specific type of compression that I already had defined in Sound Forge. I should take a look, though, thanks.
Best regards, Steve Jacobson compression On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:30:28 -0500, Tim Aune wrote: >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 >>Business Website (KJS Productions): http://www.kjsproductions.com >>Follow me on Twitter at: KJSapergia
