Montage Help

[IISE7ENII]

Hi im new to this whole Montage stuff, I got a few questions
well to start off i dont got a capture card, i use a dvd recorder and just transfer the videos to my computer, I find the quality is better and costs less then buying a capture card and all the cables. But anyway here's my problem, when i transfer the videos to my computer there in a .VOB format thank's to the dvd+rw. So that mean's i got to convert it to a mpeg,wmv,avi and so on. but that's not my problem, when i convert the video all goes well. It's when im editing, when editing in (Sony Vegas) everything seem's to be going swell but whenever im ready to see the change's ive made to a clip all i get is a really laggy video(meaning its all choppy) and it gets me mad cause i cant see the change's ive made to a clip. I can watch the video VIA.....VLC media player and its not laggy, I just can't watch it when Im editing


my computer specs:

Processor: 894 MHZ

Memory: 512 MB

I know its not a mean machine, but hey it play's music :laughing:


alot of help would be great

ive tried Adobe Premeire, Windows Movie Maker and still the same thing

Thanks for your time

IISE7ENII

[Steggy]

u got ****ty ram. comps with low ram dont shwo preview screens very well. upgrade ram and you shud be good to go. until then, render parts using onion skinning in a low quality so u can see ur changes