x4 - large high def videos slowley chugging to a stop

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x4 - large high def videos slowley chugging to a stop

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I have for 2 years fighting with any video longer than 30 mins. I recently started doing amature recordings of sporting events with 3 camera views or 3 layers of video, one audio, corss-fading and titles.

To date I have only atempted 2.

While playing the video in the edit mode or even the preview window, it plays fine for 5 seconds then starts to studder and progressively chuggs so bad its impossible to edit.

So I bought a NIVIDA 550GTX-Ti. Did not improve even the slightest.

So before I purchase X-5, the NIVDIA support people asked me if the graphics card is compatable with videostudio.
I have duel core 2.4, with 2gg ram.

HELP plz
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Re: x4 - large high def videos slowley chugging to a stop

Post by Ken Berry »

Welcome to the forums!

The title of your post mentions High Def Video, but you say no more about it. We really need to know more about its Properties, so inside Video Studio, with one of the high def video clips in the timeline, right click on it and please copy ALL its Properties here. Then we will have a better idea of what to suggest.

I notice you have a Pentium dual core computer. If your video is, as I suspect, AVCHD high def mpeg-4, then your computer is probably at the very lowest level of computer that can edit AVCHD, and even then not play it smoothly. You need at least a decent Core 2 Duo (which is different from a dual core Pentium), and preferably something even more powerful than that as AVCHD is currently about the most demanding video format on computer resources.

One thing you could try would be to use SmartProxy, which creates a standard def copy of your high def originals. You edit those standard def videos, which makes everything faster and smoother, and then the edits are applied at the end to your high def originals.

Apart from that, though, if you continue to use AVCHD, you need to start thinking about getting a more powerful computer rather than just a new graphics card.
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