Extremely Slow Playback in the VS11+ Timeline

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:54 am

To repeat myself:

And while there may be other programs out there which recognise it and accept it, apart from Adobe Encore, they are likely to be at the professional end of the market. Video Studio would not (I have already gone that route!)

Or to put it more simply, no it won't! I tried it and it simply couldn't see the video. I tried changing the extension to .mpg and a few variations on that, but that didn't work either

Adobe Encore of course will recognise .m4v as it is Premiere's companion authoring program.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:22 pm

Cool feature: you can import a VS project directly into the "Create Disc" interface, without having to render the movie first. Not a big deal, I guess, but I like it.

Anyway, I was able to get into the "Create Disc" mode and author the DVD with the supplied templates. This was very familiar territory for me, since I've used MovieFactory to create hundreds of HD DVDs on regular recordables. I tried to jot a note in Firefox at the same time and my system died. I'm going to try again and let it be for a couple of hours.

Yes, you can go directly from the timeline to Create Disc. But (as you may have already found) this sometimes causes problems for some people. Hence, a Suggested Workflow has been devised. You may want to give it a try.

Joseph Clark · Post by **Joseph Clark** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:18 pm

My computer crashed when I tried to import a VS project and burn it directly as a DVD folder. Worse, when my system rebooted, my VS project DVD output settings had been hosed. VS just shut down.

Do you have a workflow link?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:56 pm

Re SmartProxy: can we assume you have enabled it? I am not at a computer right now with VS11+ on it, but IIRC it is one of the icons above the timeline, roughly half way across. It's with the overlay manager, 5.1 channel audio manager icons. Hover your mouse over it and you will see it. Remember that it is, as far as I am aware, only a feature of VS11+ and VS 11.5+ (i.e. the PLUS version of both).

Re the suggested workflow: see http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 2220#72220

Joseph Clark · Post by **Joseph Clark** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:13 pm

Maybe there was something wrong with my VS project last night. Today, as I start to rebuild it after the crash, the proxy manager shows proxy files being created. Before I try to do a DVD folder burn today, I'm going to save the project file under a different name. If it crashes again, I won't have to do the whole thing over from scratch.

Joseph Clark · Post by **Joseph Clark** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:23 pm

Still no good news here. The proxy files were created (at which point the system crashed again), but timeline playback was exactly the same - choppy and essentially unusable.

I'm going to forget about VS on this box until I rebuild. The parts for my quad core system are coming today. I'm going to do a clean install and try it with VS. That will remove the conflicting program/codec variables.