MSP 8 is not performing well Running too slowly

bubbawhite · Post by **bubbawhite** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:34 am

I have been using MSP8 for over a month now. Completed 4 or 5 videos similar to the one I am struggling with now. It has worked fairly well. I have been learning the software as I use it. There has been several crashes but for the most part I am happy with the purchase. That is until today when I have struggled to Edit a 4 minuted Image (with Pan and Zoom) video. MSP8 is running like Molasses. Besides a studdering preview, it wants to take over 6 hours to render the project into an AVI.

Something is definetly wrong but I can not understand/figure what I might have changed or what might be the problem. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:42 am

It could be your system or your project settings, lack of memory or disk space, your guess is as good as ours.

Bandit · Post by **Bandit** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:01 am

bubbawhite,

Give us the specs on your system - include everything. Have you had this same problem with other editing software or is this your first go at editing. List your project setting along with the above requested info.

Bandit

bubbawhite · Post by **bubbawhite** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:14 am

Hi Heinz-oz...

I have a

An Athlon 64 3800 2.41 GHZ
WinXP running on 80 GB Sata

2 200Gb Sata Stripped drives

1 Gb RAM

MSP8 was running well last week(Thursday). Other software is running fine. I loaded up and ran Sony Vegas 5 and it is running fine. It is having no problems rendering at the normal speed.

On MSP8 I used my previous project settings NTSC DV 4:3 AVI

Hmmm... I am stuck.

bubbawhite · Post by **bubbawhite** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:18 am

Hello Bandit
Project Settings

NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
Video tracks: 7
Microsoft AVI files
24 bits, 720 x 480, 4:3, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
DV Video Encoder -- type 1
DV Audio -- NTSC, 48.000 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo

Where else should I look?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:18 am

Well, what can I say, there goes my hunch

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:21 am

How are you bringing in your images (file size and type, format, how many etc.)?

bubbawhite · Post by **bubbawhite** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:56 am

Hello Devil
I am bringing in JPEGs Using the Storyboard about 45 of them. Making them 180 frames with 30 frames for a transition. Adding the pan and zoom filter.

I think I will just try a reinstall. I do not know what else to do.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:21 am

OK, but what size are they?

bubbawhite · Post by **bubbawhite** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:05 am

Most of them were 4X5's my wife scanned them at 600 dpi. So the largest was about 2.7Meg. Most of them were around 1.5Meg. Around the sizes of the digitals we shoot.

When I tried lower quality scanned/digital photos, I was having the same problem.

I did reinstall the program and it seems to be working fine. So, we will see.

Thanks

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:42 am

bubbawhite

Are you adding SOUND at this stage?
A few months ago I did a similar project in Video Studio 9 and found it started to crawl along. After a hour I thought this will never do, so I stopped the process.
I saved the sound file
I then deleted the soundtrack.
I rendered the video - it went very quickly this time. matter of a couple of minutes.
Now I took this rendered video file and added the sound track back and again it rendered in a couple of minutes.

I mentioned this on the Video Studio forum some time ago, it will be lurking there somewhere but way, way back.

The impression I had was that I was asking the computer & software to do too much at once, by splitting it up it took a few minutes rather than several hours.

Bandit · Post by **Bandit** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:53 am

bubbawhite

The reason I asked for system specs is that a year ago I had the same problem and tried everything to no avail. I boosted my RAM from 512 to 1gb and that was the end of long rendering times. You have plently of RAM and your system is better than mine. The only other thing I might suggest (and I am no expert

is the AVI files. I render to NTSC on every project. I've heard that AVI produces huge files and maybe that is the problem. If you have been using AVI all along then that ain't it. I was hoping the simple solution would help you. Good luck - Sorry I was of no help.

Bandit