Choppy video and audio when viewing project

leonc · Post by **leonc** » Wed May 21, 2008 10:32 am

Hi,

I have a Sony AVCHD video camera and I use VS11.5. The problem is when I view the project both the video and audio are very choppy with the video seriously lagging behind the audio The audio is generally smoother while video is like a slideshow as it struggles to play. I have no such problem playing clips. Is it because my PC just doesn't meet the hardware requirements? I've also tried using Nero Vision 5 and have similar problems albeit not as bad as with VS.

Any ideas and help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

leonc · Post by **leonc** » Wed May 21, 2008 11:33 am

I just did a quick test DVD and it's perfect. So the problem is with the editing with VS and Nero...WHY???

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:11 pm

AVCHD is the most demanding of all video formats. Experience on this board suggests you need at least a Core 2 Duo for AVCHD to be processed correctly, and even play back smoothly. I think that is your problem. My old P4 3.0 GHz would edit it, very slowly, but it never played back smoothly. When I transferred the edited file to a Core 2 Duo, it played smoothly. And that is not just me talking, but quite a few others using AVCHD.

leonc · Post by **leonc** » Wed May 21, 2008 10:28 pm

Thanks for your reply Ken. That was the answer i was dreading.