Short shake

erdna · Post by **erdna** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:04 pm

Whenever I drag an AVCHD clip from my library into the VS X2 monitor it starts shaking for a fraction of a second after it starts playing. It's like it has to synchronize for a short time. When I put it on the timeline and play it as a clip: same story. When I play it as a project everything is smooth. Thanks for any advise.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:19 pm

I am afraid that may be just another thing with AVCHD that you might just have to learn to live with. I suspect quite a few users will have the same thing. I don't -- but in my case, when I play an AVCHD clip -- from whatever camera -- either directly from the library or in the timeline in Clip mode, I instead get a second or so of blackness in the monitor screen (despite it having originally displayed the first frame of the clip) before it plays at all. No shudder, just this delay, and it plays smoothly after that.

Depending on the camera source, when I play it in Project Mode, I get not only the delay, but often also get erratic playback.

You will see from my system details that I have a Quad 6600 running Vista Ultimate with 4 GB RAM... But I have learned to live with all of this and just put it down to AVCHD and its demanding nature. Luckily for me, though, I only play around with AVCHD to help out here, and to make the occasional AVCHD hybrid disc from my own HDV projects. So that makes it easier just to shrug and blame it on AVCHD!

erdna · Post by **erdna** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:37 am

Thanks Ken. Because my problem iwas only visible when there was fast motion in the clip I probably didn't remark it before, and thought I changed a setting which could be the reason. And indeed I checked with some HDV footage and it all goes smooth.