4 videos a 20 minutes & cut to 45 minutes = video stotte

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dr.onestone
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4 videos a 20 minutes & cut to 45 minutes = video stotte

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Hallo,
I am working with VideoStudio 10, a notebook with centrino cpu, nvideo graphic card and enough disk space (continuously compressed).
I have included to my working file 4 pieces of mpg videos each with a total length of about 20 minutes.
By processing this video and cutting down to a length of about 45 minutes, I recognized that editing gets worse and worser. The display of the video stotters so that I am unable to properly mark a cut point - the audio grates and is totally unusable.
The time period to process and transfer this video to a DVD is more than 6 hours - I have stopped this process before burning the DVD.
Can anybody help me what is wrong?
Have I set a wrong parameter or what can I do?
Much thanks for your help in advance.
Much regards
dr.onestone
I am using Windows XP.
My Ulead VideoStudio is version 10.
My camcorder camera is Sony DCR DVD-505.
Thus - my source video is MPEG-2 stored on small DVD disks.
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Post by Ken Berry »

Hail, Professor Einstein. It has been a long time since we have heard from you!

The video you are using is already DVD compatible mpeg-2, so hopefully you are using exactly the same properties it has as your project properties. In other words, first you have to ensure that above all the Field Order is kept the same throughout, and in this case it will be Upper Field First. (If you want the project properties to match those of the captured video, then make sure you have 'Show message when insert first video clip' ticked in File > Preferences. Then you will be asked if you want the project properties to match those of the inserted video.)

Next, your system details tell us nothing more than that you use XP. You say your have a Centrino laptop, but you give no details of what size Centrino processor it uses, or how much RAM it has, or indeed which model nVidia graphics card it has.

However, at a guess, I would say that your computer possibly is only on the margins of what is required to process your project.

You will have seen, possibly, many posts on this Forum where users are advised to make sure all unnecessary background programs and services are turned off while using Video Studio, to free up as many system resources as possible.

Next, you probably need to look at your workflow. I get the impression that you are doing your editing, and when that is finished you are going straight to Share > Create Disc. That is fine if you are indeed not changing the original properties of your captured video and, in the burning module, you make sure that 'Do not convert compliant mpeg files' is ticked in the Project Properties cogwheel icon in the bottom left of the burning screen.

However, the fact that you are taking so long to produce the DVD tells me that you have somewhere along the way changed the original properties of the video, or don't have the Do Not Convert box ticked, since Video Studio is obviously rendering the video during the burning process, something it should not really be doing since your video was already DVD compliant.
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