Multiple clips while editing ?

extremekicks · Post by **extremekicks** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:23 pm

Ok so I have three angles / camera views in my time line that I have sync'd up. While viewing them they start to run slow and choppy after like 1 minute.

Any reason for this? The clips are on an external drive connected USB to my PC.

Isnt my system beefy enough?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:06 pm

Using X2 mine runs similarly, except it starts out choppy for a few seconds then finally plays normally. VS10 runs much smoother when I have multiple timelines going.

You can always use HQ playback and, if you don't want to render the whole thing for HQ playback, simply set a preview range.

babdi · Post by **babdi** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:55 pm

Have the files transfered to internal HDD. USB drives are slow

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:59 pm

Ah yes. Missed that. My external is connected via firewire.

extremekicks · Post by **extremekicks** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:06 pm

Tried that but they are choppy as hell. I have SATA drives. I have no idea why they do that I had posted about 2 weeks ago when I capture to my internal they get choppy and went to my external.

Ugh

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:37 am

To see if it is an issue with the amount of data being streamed along the esata cable, try rendering a small portion of the video and see how it then plays back.

I don't know if I am just unlucky but I recently added another external drive to one of my desktop computers. This drive is a Western Digital 500GB "My Book" and can be connected by 3 methods.
1. USB2
2. Firewire
3. Esata.

Strangely the only connection that works reliably is the USB2 which technically is the feeblest of the 3 available methods.
With Firewire and even with Esata the drive would either freeze or lose connection. With USB2 it works perfectly and is turned on permanently 24/7.

extremekicks · Post by **extremekicks** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:41 pm

I just lined them up and slowly moved through the 3 time lines and edit them, once they become one time line it rolled along good ( no choppyness) and I'm happy with it for now, just painfully slow but this is also a good thing cause I capture the right transitions.