VideoStudio X4 - Project Playback Choppy

[PeteFerraro]

I am ready to delete VisualStudio X4 and look for something else to edit videos. I installed X4 and touched no settings. All my settings are default. I am creating a simple project. All I did was import a video (720 HD), add a title and share to a HD file (MP4).

The playback of the video is choppy. I looked at the video clip in the file and it is perfect. When I preview the Project, it's choppy.

Help? What am I missing?

I'm running on an i5 processor with 4GB of memory. I don't think my laptop is the issue.

[Ken Berry]

When you output your new file, which option did you choose in Share > Create Video File? I suspect you chose MPEG-4 HD. But from the sounds of your original video, I suspect one of the AVCHD P varieties might have been better.

And by the way, it is *Video* Studio not *Visual* Studio (which is a totally different Microsoft program).

[PeteFerraro]

Ken,

Thank you for your reply. I need MP4 for a mobile device. Choppy is kind. It's more like a still picture time lapse.