Slow response

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:49 pm

I have a amd athlon xp 2600+cpu plenty of freeharddrive space 1 gig ram.
XP sp2.
Why does ulead video studio 9 take so much time to start viewing a project.
A clip will respond quickly I understand that it is only small.
When I view a project the first time it takes about 11seconds. the next time I view the project it takes about 30 sec.

can anyone help?
Thank you
Stewart

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:14 pm

Well you might check to see what processes are running in the background. I've learned that unless you have a real monster machine, then video editing programs are CPU hogs. Try to shut down as much unnecessary background processes as possible. I shutdown my antivirus, network, internet, anything that I can.

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:51 pm

Thanks Videoman for your reply . I have been doing That.
I have a a program called Ram booster which tells me that i still have 490mgs of ram free. I wonder if I will have to reinstal VS9 again.

kebrinton · Post by **kebrinton** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:06 am

Stewart --

Yes, viewing the effect of an edit in "Project" is never as brisk as in "Clip" and the reasons aren't a secret.

However, a 30-second wait is outrageous. I think I wait about 5-8 seconds with a fast machine. I've often wondered if the little wait becomes longer as the amount of information accumulated in the .VSP file gets larger. Never taken the time to check.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:14 am

Under "Preferences" the F6 key.

Set from "Dual-Head" to Preview display only if not using a dual-head setup.
Also set the previewing mode to "Instant Preview"

Also on the last tab of the "Preferences" setup is another directory that you
can assign to the video preview files drive instead of the operating system drive
if your using the default settings.

Also if your not using 99 undo's you can set that much lower.

Hope this helps,

MD

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:36 am

Thanks MD
I have been doing all those thing

stewart

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:28 am

> I have a a program called Ram booster which tells me that i still have 490mgs of ram free.

Can you disble that program. Might be affecting disk performance in some way.

What are your source files?
Mpeg2 or DV.avi?

You can run the windows external program "taskmgr" and within the
taskmanagers screen select "Always On Top".
Doing that might make it easier to troubleshoot what's going on.
(Just minimize VideoStudio and goto "Start -> Run -> taskmgr"

Hope this helps,

MD

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:56 am

Thanks MD
I have already tried all you have suggested Nothing changes. I am using Jpegs + AVI files.

The first time I press Project I can count slowly to 11 before it starts to play.
The second time and there after i can count slowly to 35 sometimes 45 before it starts to play. I have wasted so much time looking for the answer.
Thanks for taking the time to think about my problem.

Stewart

Have a great week

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:49 am

Thanks MD

You got me thinking when you asked about file types

I watched he graph on the Task Manager and noticed that the jpegs were often using 100% of the CPU and the avi 's about 20-40%.
The project i am working on has a lot of Jpegs and the video has been converted from VHS. When play the project the second time the task manager says it is not responding. I guess this is because the jpegs are hoging the Cpu. When it starts to play the graph line is always close to 100%.
Why? I dont know. Maybe some one can tell me one day.

I tried a test project of all avi's music and text and it started to play after the count of 6 each time.

Thanks again two heads are always better than one.

Regards
Stewart

kebrinton · Post by **kebrinton** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:11 pm

I wish BrianCee, THoff, or jchunter would jump in and say something on this problem! Also Ulead itself might have something very useful to contribute.

Back at my video desk, I discovered that I don't wait 5 or more seconds (previous quote) but rather only 3, when playing Project.

Stewart, did you end up doing a reinstall? I think Ulead products will also "repair" -- did you try that?

Keith

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:41 pm

Thanks Keith

I did reinstall. I cleaned everything out but it made no difference.
I think that maybe the problem was caused because the jpegs I use were scanned at 300dpi I am not sure what the ideal size would be to keep the quality when displayed on a TV.

regards Stewart

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:28 pm

> I tried a test project of all avi's music and text and it started to play after the
> count of 6 each time.

That could be normal depending on your system setup (cpu/drives/mem etc).

Scanned images can end up being very large in file size depending on the
settings used to scan with.
Sounds like VS is working hard converting the images.
Maybe re-sample them to 720x576 would help.

MD

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:03 am

Further to my go slow problem

I have a AMD athlon +2600 cpu Which runs at 60degree C when previewing my project. Some say it is too hot others say it is ok.

Someone I spoke to said the thought my problem was caused by my graphics card not having enough memory.
64mb GeForce4 440 AGP8x.
does any one have any more thoughts.

Thanks
Stewart

Telgaladhion_Greyskye · Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:41 am

Having a video card with at least 128 mb ram would definitely make a difference since it would take some of the burden from your system memory.

Have you tried defragging your hard drive?

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:07 pm

I can't add much except to say that ecoding jpegs is not causing your problem. I integrate jpegs in all my projects at full resolution (3 MP). My Instant preview delays are 4-5 seconds when starting in the middle of a video clip (my clips are all mpeg2 at 8Mbps).and sometimes 2-3 seconds when starting in the middle of a sequence of still images.

I have a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, 1 GB of memory and although I have XP and VS9 installed on my 10,000 rpm C drive, I just made those preview delay measurements with a VS project and all its assets on my 7200 rpm drive. My video card is a Radeon 9800Pro with 128 MB of DDR memory. I have hyperthreading enabled and use a virtual memory (paging file) size of 1GB. Write caching is disabled on both hard drives.

Your delays are so serious that one would think your CPU cache is turned off. Do you experience delays in any other CPU-intensive software?

John