Video Studio x10 Freezes/Crashes when using tools

[Silverling]

I started using Video Studio x10 to trim and edit videos I've recorded from various game streams, and I've run into a bit of a frustrating problem.

Visual Studio works just fine if all I'm doing is playing it back, trimming/cutting the videos down, but the moment I try to use any of the other editing tools, IE, the video mask, it locks into a perpetual state of loading and freezes to the point where I can't even minimize the program(though I am capable of switching windows) and shows as 'not responding' in the task manager. As I was attempting to mask out/hide some of the stream chat on the video last night, I got frustrated and simply left it open to stew for about an hour and a half before the program became responsive again and allowed me to apply a mask.... Which then took another 20 minutes to actually apply and more time after that to apply effects.

Seeing as I'm trying to quickly and efficiently edit videos, such a long load time to use pretty much any of the editing tools pretty much makes the program rather ineffective.

Visual Studio is fully updated and runs as administrator, my video card drivers are up to date, and my computer should be more than capable of running the program. (Windows 10, Ryzen ryzen 5 1500x quad core, Radeon rx 470, 16gig RAM, more than a TB of free space)

The video I've been attempting to edit is close to three hours long(but I have been trimming them into roughly 20 minute chunks), a desktop recording using OBS Studio and is an MP4, 60FPS.

I am fairly new to Visual Studio(I.E. I started poking at it a few days ago) But I have the feeling that it shouldn't take over an hour just to load the custom mask options. Any kind of suggestions to fixing this issue would be fantastic!

Thanks!

[tletter]

The video I've been attempting to edit is close to three hours long

Try splitting your 3 hour video file into digestible chunks using a program like XMedia Recode and then import them into VS.

tletter
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[aljimenez]

Use proxy files; editing whould improve significantly.

You should post video properties: resolution, frames per secon, bitrate, type (mp4, mov, ?)

[Silverling]

Well, I tested cutting the video down to a 20 minute segment then tried editing, and the program seemed to be happy with that... Apparently I'm just going to segment my videos out first, then do any other kind of editing later.


If you want to know the specs, though, here's most of 'em. Video file is MP4

[Ken Berry]

Thanks for that. A better way of giving use the Properties of your files, though, is from within Video Studio itself. Simply right click on a clip either in the library window or timeline and choose Properties. Then copy the details here or take a screen shot of the Properties box and upload it here as an Attachment, as you did above. The VS properties are more detailed than the Windows ones you gave us.

[Davidk]

A frame width of 1280 means it's an HD clip. Maybe not 'full' HD, but certainly more HD than a standard DVD/mpg resolution clip (720x576). So you should be enabling smart proxy, which creates a DVD proxy of your HD clip and uses that for improved editing performance. Whatever is applied to the proxy during editing is applied to the real clip during rendering.

Enable smart proxy at settings/preferences/performance tab.