Display stutters on m2t files (cineform needed?)

gzabetas wrote on 2/3/2005, 8:11 AM

Downloaded some HDV m2t files and the edits don't show, while the display plays at like 1 frame a minute.
I have a CPU above 2.6 GHz and about a gig of ram.
Is this what the cineform is needed for?

I may stick in DV if this is what HDV comes to. Thinking of buying the FX1 but I need to know I can edit the stuff. Have been unable to find a recoomended post solution yet.

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scdragracing wrote on 2/3/2005, 4:48 PM

i hate to say it, but you haven't found a post solution because you haven't bothered to look.

as many people have posted on every single type of video forum there is, hdv is too processor-intensive to play back on today's pc's... it's not the bitrate, it's the fact that you can't decode the hdv mpeg2 fast enuf during playback... you'd need a dedicated mpeg hardware card, or an editing solution that's written to take advantage of a fast video display card.

the cineform "fix" totally re-encodes all of the hdv into a video format that isn't so processor-intensive to play back on a pc.

gzabetas wrote on 2/3/2005, 5:28 PM

I have been looking at all the boards and I guess what I meant was a standard approach.
You're explanation helps clarify it a bit