I'm making a 5 minute music video type project and using small clips from DVD's which have been saved onto my hard drive then placed into the library.
Everything was going well, but the more clips I added the slower and slower Video Studio became in loading the project and in doing further editing like adding effects and moving clips around. Sometimes I could select a clip to alter and have to wait up to 2 minutes for the clip to become "active" and again when I tried to nudge it along a little.
I'm saving often and on major changes save as a different file number - although the program hasn't actually crashed, several times after I've saved and closed, when I start again the next day VS wants to reclaim the last project I was working on, so something isn't happy.
I've turned everything else off I can, even the virus scanner - turning back on after a restart.
I am wondering if I've been doing the right thing as far as making the clips goes? I've just been trimming with the trim handles and then dragging the file the clip came from onto the time line from the library - usually onto an overlay track so I can position them. Then I choose another clip, sometimes from the same file, but sometimes from another and so on and so on.
What I need to know is - should I save these clips as trimmed clips or is it OK to keep using them and others from the original file? Is this what is slowing everything down?
If I do save them as trimmed clips can I still drag them out a little bit if I've got the timing a bit wrong? Right now I'm using the black arrow to add to the time or shift clicking for the white arrow to slow down the clip as it were to fit the music.
I eventually finished the project and it rendered quite quickly and played well, but the last couple of days of tweaking were quite a struggle waiting and waiting for the program to respond and I'm wondering if any one has any tips that might help me.
