Recently I bought a new Sony HDR-CX220E video camera and after the trial clips were transferred from my cameras's SDHC card into a new Videostudio Pro X3 project I was unimpressed by the jerkyness of the panning sequences. I have experimented with clips at various quality levels (HD, STD, MP4) but no noticeable change. When I connect my camera with our digital TV screen via an HDMI cable it looks absolutely perfect so the problem is somewhere in the computer, not in the camera. Can anyone suggest which butons to push?
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jerky pan
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Re: jerky pan
Have you enabled Smart Proxy ?
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Re: jerky pan
Further to Brian's response, can you give us an idea of your computer specifications, please? It's one of the reasons we ask that in the registration process, but you never filled it in.
Your camera films in AVCHD which is an incredibly demanding format and you need quite a powerful computer to be able to both edit and play it smoothly. Brian's suggestion is to use SmartProxy which creates a standard definition copy ("proxy") of your high def original. You do your edits on that, and it should play back smoothly. When satisfied with all your edits, they are applied back to the high def originals.
Your camera films in AVCHD which is an incredibly demanding format and you need quite a powerful computer to be able to both edit and play it smoothly. Brian's suggestion is to use SmartProxy which creates a standard definition copy ("proxy") of your high def original. You do your edits on that, and it should play back smoothly. When satisfied with all your edits, they are applied back to the high def originals.
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Re: jerky pan
Smart proxy was enabled in the new project. Do I have to specify somewhere that the proxy copy is to be used in the edit step or does this happen automatically?
My computer is a Dell Studio 540 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz SSDRAM 320 GB Hard Drive and 400 GB external Hard drive. System is Windows 7.
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My computer is a Dell Studio 540 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz SSDRAM 320 GB Hard Drive and 400 GB external Hard drive. System is Windows 7.
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Schwarzenegger
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Re: jerky pan
I have also updated my computer specifications on my profile.
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Re: jerky pan
For AVCHD your computer is underpowered, with only 4 GB of ram there is not much available for VS to use, also you have an 8 year old system and only a core duo, with my laptop which is more powerful than your desktop (the Dell 540 is a desktop I think) I would not try to edit AVCHD without enabling smart proxy, even then it would stutter/stop/slow down whilst waiting for the computer to catch up with your actions. To be honest your system should be fine for SD editing, but for HD you should consider upgrading.
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Re: jerky pan
I use my video camera to record images from our holidays. No high quality required. I bought this camera because my old Sony Handycam needed a new motherboard. I don't think that I am prepared to fork out $1000 plus to buy a new computer just for a bit of holiday video. I have 2 options
1 retrieve my old camera and have the motherboard fixed
2 Install more RAM on my computer. This will get me up to 8 GB of Ram and this may still not be sufficient.
I am still not sure that I have done everything correct with Smart Proxy. Is enabling Smart Proxy all that is required? So far I haven't seen any improvement in the panning jerkyness. What else can I do?
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1 retrieve my old camera and have the motherboard fixed
2 Install more RAM on my computer. This will get me up to 8 GB of Ram and this may still not be sufficient.
I am still not sure that I have done everything correct with Smart Proxy. Is enabling Smart Proxy all that is required? So far I haven't seen any improvement in the panning jerkyness. What else can I do?
Regards,
Schwarzenegger