Slow Videostudio, especialy when creating movies...

[DerkJohn]

Hello all! Thank you for reading this. I have a problem with Ulead Video Studio. Here are my specs;

Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
Physical Memory (RAM): 4096 MB (2 x 2048 DDR2-SDRAM )
Free disc space: 80.3 GB
Video Card : Nvidia Corp NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, latest driver installed
Mainboard : Asus P5K-VM
Chipset : Intel P35/G33/G31
Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2400 MHz
Program Version: 11.5.0157.1 With Dolbi Digi powerpack 1.0
Properties source files: M2TS (lots of MB) and MODD files (few KB)
Device: Sony Super Steady Shot HDR-SR11
Project properties*:
PAL (25 fps)
MPEG files
24 bits, 720 x 576, 25 fps
Lower field(?) first
(DVD-PAL), 16:9
Gegevenssnelheid video: Variabel (Max. 6000 kbps)
Gegevenssnelheid audio: 384 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio, 48 KHz, 3/2(L,C,R,SL,SR)
Keep in mind that this is translated from Dutch
Output: High Def. on my hard disc ¡V not sure if this is what you guys mean¡K sorry

PAL, not NTSC

No errors

The problem:

When I try to open/create a HD (high definition) movie file it takes ages for the program to finish loading. I don¡¦t have this problem when I use regular, non-HD media. I recently upgraded my system so I don¡¦t think that¡¦s the problem.

What I¡¦ve tried:
I tried the Smart-Proxy part, as described in this (http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=31293) post. It helped a bit but still leaves ¡¥room for improvement¡¦.

I need help with:
Making it all (a lot) less choppier! Your help is much appreciated

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the field order of the video recorded by your camcorder (MPEG) would be Upper Field First. You listed the field order of your Project Settings to be Lower Field First, which is used primarily by the DV (avi) format.

Try setting the Field Order in your Project Properties to Upper Field First and see if that clears up the choppiness. Reversing the Field Order can result in choppy videos..

[Ken Berry]

Vidoman is quite correct. You camera is a hard disk (60GB) AVCHD camera which always uses Upper Field First. So that should be the Field Order used whether capturing to HD AVCHD/.m2ts file or to standard definition mpeg-2 files as you seem to be doing.

That then raises the question of whether or not you deliberately captured from the camera as standard definition, or if you had intended to capture in the camera's full high definition mode. That would have given you properties which would have been 1920 x 1080 (instead of 720 x 576), Upper Field First, 16:9 and a bitrate (Gegevenssnelheid) of probably around 17000 or 18000 kbps. So it would be helpful if you could tell us what you are trying to do with the video. Could you also describe how you went about importing the video from the camera as well please? You should have used the 'Insert DVD/DVD-VR or AVCHD' command...

Next, can you click on the ? symbol up in the top right of the Video Studio screen and look at 'About Ulead Video Studio'. The screen that appears has to show your version as being 11.5.0157.2 for it to be able to deal properly with AVCHD video.

Finally, I have a Core 2 Quad as well (see my System button for details). I don't have an AVCHD camera, but a HDV one which uses a mini DV cassette to record high definition mpeg-2. But in recent weeks, a number of users have sent me substantial amounts of AVCHD footage. And I have to say it is possibly the most difficult and demanding video format to deal with.

If you are playing the AVCHD back on your Quad computer, it should play smoothly in Clip mode. But immediately you switch to Project mode, it becomes choppy in the preview screen -- again, I am talking about this happening in my Quad. But you can edit it, add transitions etc, and join it together and produce a new file which will then play smoothly in a software DVD player like PowerDVD which is rated to play AVCHD. It also burns smoothly to disc and plays back beautifully on a HDTV. (I have also in recent weeks started burning my HDV/mpeg-2 files to what is called a hybrid disc. That is converting the HDV to AVCHD which is then burned in full high definition format to a standard DVD. It can only be played back on a player that is Blu-Ray compliant that is rated to play such discs, but these include the Sony PlayStation 3.)

The basic message here, though, is: don't believe what you see in the preview screen is going to be what is the final product.

But again this brings me back to ask what your intention is to produce with these files -- high definition or standard definition?