Every edit is causing rendering

Carel · Post by **Carel** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:53 am

Hi!

It's probably a setting I've overlooked, but the smallest edit (like moving a clip in the timeline) is causing a full project rendering when pressing 'play'. In the left bottom corner its says: "Create files...Press ESC to cancel" I'm new to Mediastudio Pro and can't seem to find what is causing this...

I'm using Media Studio Pro 7 and the source material is AVI clips with DivX 6.4 video codec and MP3 audio codec.

Thanks!

Carel.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:26 am

How do you expect the program to play back any changes you made without creating a preview file? Especially with your type of video, there is serious number crunching involved. You also did not state how you got your video in the first place. Being DivX I presume you downloaded it frome somewhere. Is it one big file or did you split it into smaller segments? If the latter, how exactly did you split it?

cgould · Post by **cgould** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:43 am

Use "Instant Play", to work in the timeline (playback) w/o rendering. It's not quite realtime depending on speed of your system.
Should be one of the buttons on the right bottom of the preview window.

If your video data files don't match your project (timeline) codec settings- eg DivX video is not any default MSPro project setting- mspro will have to render preview files to match your project, unless you use instant play.
SmartRender (no-preview playback) only works where the timeline codec matches your video files codec.
BTW, MSPro doesn't always work great w/ MP3 audio, you might want to render it to WAV first, then you can output it as whatever.

Carel · Post by **Carel** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:59 pm

Thanks for your replies.

I do expect some rendering, but when I place a clip on the timeline, or move it a few frames it takes more than 2 minutes to process...
It's probably the (non-standard MSP) codec that's causing this, although the timeline codec is set accordingly.

The 'Instant play' setting is working fine, so I'll just use that feature.

The source material are screenrecording clips from Sitepal animations. (www.sitepal.com) I found that the DivX codec gave me the best results for these animations.

Thanks again,

Carel.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:17 pm

All highly compressed formats like DivX, XviD, WMV etc. take a long time to work, because of the sheer magnitude of having to reconstitute each frame on each clip you work on. One way to avoid this is to convert your DivX file into, say, DV Type 1. This will take a long time (e.g., overnight) but, once done, you can do all your editing at normal speeds. You would also benefit from improved quality where re-rendering becomes necessary.

I have heard that http://www.riverpast.com/en/prod/videocleaner/ is quite a good batch AVI/MOV converter but costs 30 bucks (you may be able to find free ones).