Video Studio X2 - Video file import

saransk · Post by **saransk** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:05 pm

Is there anyway to minimize the system impact of importing a video file. I was importing several video clips from my camera (Sony, takes jpegs and video) and found that the program froze while importing. I got the "white screen" and "not responding" message from VISTA, but in a couple of minutes it was fine. These weren't really large files, but clearly did have an impact.
They had already been imported from the Memory Stick.
The system has 2 Gb of system ram and these are 7200 rpm SATA drives.

Once imported there was no real problem using them

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:10 pm

What kind of video files are they? What is the model of your cam? I only have a P4 system with 1GB RAM and I have no problems capturing, but I am capturing DV-AVI. When you get into the more compressed file types (AVCHD, MPEG4, DIVX, etc.) that's when you start to experience problems.

Post by **Ron P.** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:13 pm

I think that's more of a Vista problem, and not specific to a PC or the program. I've seen that happen several times, of course just on my Vista machine. The nice thing about Vista, is that if you stop what you're doing, it will recover rather quickly. With XP, most of the time, once it stops responding it's done, and you need to force the program closed.

There is one thing you can do, is upgrade the Priority when it runs. After VS is launched, bring up the Task Manager, then locate VideoStudio in the processes tab. The file will be vstudio.exe. Right-click on it and go to Set Priority to... A fly-out menu will open, and you can set it to High or Above Normal. This will tell your system that while VS is running it gets priority over the resources.