Video Studio Pro 5 Delay when pressing Play

[milosh]

On my Video Studio Pro 5 I have an annoying delay every time I press Play to preview.

I am sure that pressing this button is the most common thing people do and yet it's the slowest one. It takes 2-3 sec each time.

Is this normal?

I have pretty fast new computer i5 overclocked to 4Gh and 8GB Ram and working with short (max 10min) 720p clips.

I am thinking about buying maybe SSD disk because I can't think if it's going to help at all.

Please help / advise.

[BrianCee]

Sounds perfectly normal to me - I do not think an SSD disc is going to change it.

[Ken Berry]

If you are talking about Play in Project mode i.e. to review the edits you have made to see what they do, then if you think about it, VS in effect has to throw all the complicated transitions, filters, cuts etc together on the fly to play everything back. In fact it surprises me that it manages to do all this as quickly as it does. So like Brian, I think 2 - 3 seconds is normal...

[milosh]

If it was on a fly it would start the preview straight away and then 'on a fly' grab all the effects.
Also, as far as I know inside the program Video Studio uses lower quality preview for optimisation/performance purposes and puts everything together on the Export.
Anyway, it's just a shame it doesn't work faster.

Possibly I am cutting the clips wrong way, I will try to learn Video Studio a bit more so maybe I will not have to chech each cut and how it transitions between the takes.

[BrianCee]

I never use the play button while editing to see what the effect I have made is - just use your mouse cursor and left mouse button to grab the timeline cursor or the scrubber bar under the preview window and slide it back and forth over the edit you have just made - you can then go as so or fast as you like to check your edit.

[canuck]

If it was on a fly it would start the preview straight away and then 'on a fly' grab all the effects.
Also, as far as I know inside the program Video Studio uses lower quality preview for optimisation/performance purposes and puts everything together on the Export.
Anyway, it's just a shame it doesn't work faster.

Possibly I am cutting the clips wrong way, I will try to learn Video Studio a bit more so maybe I will not have to chech each cut and how it transitions between the takes.

What you would like and what is possible are two different things. "On the fly" doesn't mean instantaneous. As Ken explained in a post above, the program has to render everything (video, transitions, effects audio, overlay, etc) together and then compress to fit a preview screen. There will always be a delay and 2-3 seconds is actually quite fast. On my system it takes even longer. I am pretty sure this happens with all video programs.