Slow with SmartSounds

[MikeA]

I am demoing VideoStudio and trying out features. In one try I put a SmartSound track onto my 7 minute movie. I then got down to editing the volume of the audio. After each edit I tried to play back the section I had just edited. The program hung for some time before starting. My guess is that the SmartSound track is being recreated after each edit, even though the total length is the same and nothing else has changed except for some volume changes. If so, this doesn't make sense. I can understand if I did something to change the length of the audio clip - added a transition to the video or trimmed it, whatever. But, this doesn't make sense to me. Makes things tedious.

[Ron P.]

Previewing your work in VS, has always been a very rough view of your progress. In the previous versions, there was High-Quality Playback, where VS would render a temp video file for you to preview. Corel removed this from VS X3, saying that they have improved the preview playback, which in my opinion is not correct. So what you see in the Preview, is the program trying to throw all your edits together on-the-fly. The smoothness will depend on the complexity of your project, as well as your PC setup.