Video Studio Upgrade

latavn · Post by **latavn** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:03 pm

I am upgrading to Video Studio 10+ but only have 678MB free on my C drive. I have Video Studio 5, 7 , 8 and 9 on the drive right now. If I remove Video Studio 5 will it impact on the upgrade to 10+? Also, I have space on my D drive to install 10+. Are there any issues if I put 10+ on the D drive?

Post by **jparnold** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:48 am

First of all why have so many versions of VS installed? I can only think that perhaps you have old projects which will not load into later versions but if so how often do you need to load them?
Other members and myself have VS9 and VS10+ installed on the same drive with no apparent problems (although recently I noticed that my VS9 would start with the splash sceen then open the editing window for a fraction of a second then the program shut down - I uninstalled and reinstalled both versions and they now both seem to run ok).
If VS9 and VS10+ run happily together on the same drive then there should be no problems having different versions of different drives.
Apart from that consider an upgrade to a larger C: drive and increase the partition size if it resides on a partitioned drive.

metmot · Post by **metmot** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:57 am

Good god man buy a new hard drive!! (or a computer). It's like a nickle a gig now days.

You Barely have enough room to download a snapshot, much less edit a video.

You have hit the ceiling. Please don't take offense, none intended.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:16 pm

For VS10 + you will need 1 GIG of free space to install it. I currently run several versions of VS without problems. If you are wanting to edit video then a larger harddrive is a must.

2Dogs · Post by **2Dogs** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:11 pm

Also, if you do have less than 21% (I think) of free space on your C: drive, windows defrag might not run. That's fine - just use something like Executive Software Diskeeper instead - it can defrag with very little free space, and it's several times quicker than Windows defrag.

Another thing you can do to free up space is to move your pagefile from the default C: drive to another drive/partition. People typically recommend the pagefile be set to 2 x RAM, which usually translates to 1024Mb or more. I have no problems with having my pagefile off the C: partition, and there's no measurable performance issues, but be careful if you use disk imaging programs to backup the C: partition. You'll need to make a fresh image with the pagefile in its new location if that is the case.

Be sure to run all your clean up utilities - XP does a great job of gathering "fluff" otherwise. You can start with XP's own "disk cleanup".