Choppy render and playback with new V4 WMV files.

drtelemark wrote on 2/19/2003, 12:49 AM
Just upgraded to V4 and ever since, if I render to WMV 8 or WMV 9 formats, the playback is horrendous. Every second or two there is a stutter effect in the video playback. I am running Media player series 9 with the latest updates. The playback of my older WMV done in Vegas 3 are fine, so it must be the rendering process of Vegas 4 that is causing the problem.

Any ideas?

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tocrh wrote on 2/19/2003, 3:18 PM
I render from .mov files to vcd and i was getting the choppy effect you are. I found that if i right click on the video clip goto switches then check on disable resample that it renders very nicely for me.

Hope this helps.. now if someone could come up with a way to permently disable smart resample..

Let me it this helps
SonyTSW wrote on 2/19/2003, 9:53 PM
drtelemark,

This shouldn't be happening. Can you give some more specifics about your system: CPU, Windows OS, service packs installed, DX version, etc.? What template settings are you using for your renders?

Also what format is your source media, frame rate, and so on? Does it play back from the Vegas timeline OK? What are your project settings? Do you get the same result if you play the same WMV file on another computer (provided you have a means to do this)?

Did you try disabling smart resample as suggested by tocrh?
drtelemark wrote on 2/20/2003, 1:10 AM
OK, here are the specs: P4 1700 with 512K RAM, XP, Windows Media Player 9, SP1 for XP installed., DX 8.1. Rendering in either WMV9 or WMV8 (default settings at 3 mbps) has the same result.


Score on the idea of playing on another system - I played the files on my laptop and they actually play fine, so it must be WMP 9.

Now, how in the hell do i fix WMP 9? I know it can't uninstall it! Must be a corrupt file somewhere since I have WMP 9 on my laptop that plays it fine...
SonyTSW wrote on 2/20/2003, 11:40 PM
Try downloading and reinstalling WMP 9. Also you might want to run a disk error check of your hard drive.
drtelemark wrote on 2/21/2003, 12:47 AM
Ok, here is the latest. I figured out that the veg file I was using somehow corrupted the field order of the avi's I was using to render the video (said lower field first but was actually upper field first when rendering, making it very choppy). I opened a new veg file, imported the same avi's and rendering to WMV went fine. Hmm, that was a waste of about 2 hours.