Virb Edit Memory Usage

Former Member over 11 years ago

Windows Task Manager shows that Virb Edit uses around 765 000k of system RAM *while simply downloading video* from my Virb Elite. Is this intentional - seems a little excessive to me. I expect the exporting of video might take up some memory - but for what is effectively a simple file transfer....?

Also, Virb Edit takes about a full minute just to open - and my PC is no slouch! Is this normal? What do other users report?

And (while I'm at it), could an option be added to disable the splash screen when opening VE - it sits right in the middle of my screen, over every other window; it is in the way of anything else I might have open at the time.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

First opening of VIRB Edit after cold boot, while running Karpersky full scan: about 7 seconds (inclusive the splash screen)
With VIRB Edit open until start scanning for new clips: about 20 seconds (from connecting the VIRB Elite to the USB cable)

PC:
Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel i7 870 @2.93GHz
16GB RAM
Video card: nVidia Quadro 2000

Drives:
B: 1TB SATA600 (internal)
C: 450GB SATA600 (internal, BOOT disk)
D: 2TB = 5x 500GB SATA300 into SATA300 via RAID controller (internal)
E: DVD RW (internal)
F: Blue ray RW (internal)
G: - J: cardreader (internal)
K: 3TB Mybook
L: 3TB Mybook
M: 1TB Mybook
N: 1TB Mybook
Q: 64GB Garmin VIRB Elite
V: virtual DVD

Performance index:
CPU 7.4
RAM 7.4
GPU 7.0 Aero
GPU 7.0 Business and Games
Prim HDD 5.9

(translated, my PC is Dutch)

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I noticed that VIRB Edit opens every clip and movie that is in the library and gallery.
After it has read it contents it closes all the files.
Maybe you have much more clips than I have.
At this moment I only have 28 clips and one movie.
You could see what happens if you rename your current database and start VIRB Edit.
This is the current database: C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\Garmin\VIRB Edit\Database\2
The \2 is for the VIRB Edit versions 2.x.x

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I noticed that VIRB Edit opens every clip and movie that is in the library and gallery.
After it has read it contents it closes all the files.

That would help explain the length of time it takes for Virb Edit to open - but why would they make it do that? Much better for it to read the files only when required to do so, yes?

Maybe you have much more clips than I have.
At this moment I only have 28 clips and one movie.

Well, I have FAR more clips and movies than that! I don't know how many exactly - but certainly in the hundreds.

And neither of these explain the high memory usage while transferring from the Virb to the PC.......

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Thats the "advantage" of having a database instead of projects like Pinacle and Powerdirector but that are "just marginal" programs that don't know anything about video editing.....
I delete the database regularly, if you want to save a copy of a project, just rename and save the database.
You can move the videofiles in the projectfile but they need to be put back in the original place.