Can I Speed Up VS x2 On Old PC?

RayBaker · Post by **RayBaker** » Wed May 20, 2009 4:34 pm

I've 've been using VS 10, and it was slow on my old Gateway, but, I learned to live with it...

I've just recently upgraded to VS x2; love all the new features. However...

Last night, I loaded one of my old video clips that I captured with VS 10, into x2, and started to add some filters to my clip.

Yow, x2 was, simply put, crawling...

The sound was fine, played smoothly. It was a clip of music with graphics.

The video however, in preview mode, both clip & project, was jerky, slow, broken up, and barely moved at all... It looked like slide show clips, no motion of video at all...

I know it's time to upgrade my machine to a dual core and all that... But, in the meantime, is there "anything" I can do to help x2 run just a little faster... It is useless to me for editing when it runs this slow, I'm ready to go back to VS 10...

I had only added two filters, "cropping" and "the de noise" filter... The clip I¡¦m, working on is only 5 minutes long, it took almost three hours to render. In VS 10, it probably would take about 45 minutes...

Here re my capture settings... I used the same ones when I applied my clip to the timeline also...

AVI (DV) NTSC drop frame (29.97)
Microsoft AVI files 24 bits, 720 x 480, 4:3, 29.97 fps Lower Field First
DV Video Encoder - type 1
DV Audio - NTSC, 48.000 kHz, 16 bit, Stereo

Here are my system stats:
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name RAY-6YWN5IGXB25
System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model 310 2900494
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~2799 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. SR84511A.15A.0014.P02.0307230940, 7/23/2003
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name RAY-6YWN5IGXB25\Ray Baker
Time Zone Central Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 196.39 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.20 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed May 20, 2009 5:29 pm

I have an "old" P4. A project of just clips plays fine. But the more you add effects (transitions, filters, etc.) the slower it gets (how do just your clips play?). Nature of the beast I'm afraid, although your render times seem exceptionally long.

Might be time to break open the piggy bank.

RayBaker · Post by **RayBaker** » Wed May 20, 2009 6:05 pm

It seems like objects in the overlay track work fine...
The more filters I add, to video clips,
the slower it runs...

Basic video clips play just fine...

Black Lab wrote:I have an "old" P4. A project of just clips plays fine. But the more you add effects (transitions, filters, etc.) the slower it gets (how do just your clips play?). Nature of the beast I'm afraid, although your render times seem exceptionally long.

Might be time to break open the piggy bank.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed May 20, 2009 6:42 pm

If the overlay tracks work ok then I would just use them instead of the main track.

Post by **jparnold** » Thu May 21, 2009 11:25 am

Do you have Playback Method (in Preferences) set to Instant Playback or High Quality? Playback is less demanding on resources when set to Instant.
Also if you want to hang onto the old PC consider increasing memory (ram) from 512Mb preferably to 1024Mb

RayBaker · Post by **RayBaker** » Thu May 21, 2009 7:15 pm

jparnold wrote:Do you have Playback Method (in Preferences) set to Instant Playback or High Quality? Playback is less demanding on resources when set to Instant.
Also if you want to hang onto the old PC consider increasing memory (ram) from 512Mb preferably to 1024Mb

Hi John,

Yes, it's set to "Instant Playback"

"Target" is "Dual Head Device" (Whatever that means???)

Seems like that should be set to "Preview Window..."

Right?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu May 21, 2009 8:01 pm

Yes, it should be Preview Window.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:04 am

Please view:
Creating a Video Editing Profile.

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:30 am

My desktop PC, is not much if any faster than yours. One thing that I've found to help is having a second internal hard drive. I use this for my working folders and files.

RayBaker · Post by **RayBaker** » Fri May 22, 2009 6:16 pm

vidoman wrote:My desktop PC, is not much if any faster than yours. One thing that I've found to help is having a second internal hard drive. I use this for my working folders and files.

I have an "external" hard drive, and it sure does help.

I was wondering though... I'm currently having an "issue" with
the old, "Unable To Load Library" error...

Do you think that storing files on my external drive, and then
rendering my project as a video file, and receiving the "Unable
To Load Library" error are related?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri May 22, 2009 6:30 pm

No. As was stated in that thread, you probably have a corrupt file at that 51% mark in your project.