Poor Videostudio 11 Picture Quality using Vista on Laptop

Phil Williamson · Post by **Phil Williamson** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:56 pm

I've just got a new Dell 1520 laptop running on Vista, with 2048 memory, 200GB hard drive and a NVIDIA Geforce Go8600M GT with 256MB DDR2 dedicated graphic memory.
I thought this would be enough to run videostudio 11 OK, but when I load .avi's created on my old desktop onto the laptop hardrive (or seperate hard drive through USB) and play in videostudio the picture "drags", ie as objects move they carry a slight shadow behind them.

These .avi's created on my old desktop still play fine on the old desktop with Videostudio 9, has anyone any ideas why this is happening.

Note these same .avi's play fine on the laptop in media player, just not in videostudio.

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:08 pm

I'd start by checking for updates on graphics drivers and motherboard bios revsions from Dell.

2Dogs · Post by **2Dogs** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:14 am

Hi Phil,

even if it's not a driver issue, I for one wouldn't worry about any kind of playback effects using VS as a player. To play video, you'd surely use a media player, not VS.

Out of interest, I tried messing up avi playback on my old Celeron M clunker of a laptop, with its 40Gb 4200rpm hard drive and feeble onboard graphics - but all my sample avi's played fine - no different to my more recent C2D machine, which is still a lesser beast to the one you describe.

Do the more significant aspects of VS11 work OK on your swanky laptop? Can you successfully encode video for playback on other devices?

How big are the avi files you're having trouble with?