Dropping frames and too slow on playback

DarrenDieguez wrote on 6/16/2002, 9:10 PM
When I play a video that i am trying to edit, the sound and video "drops frames" (I was told by a helpful worker at Best Buy - meaning that the video and sound quality is choppy and too slow and skips. dialogue is garbled and can't be made out and scenes skip and stutter.) It is as if i am trying to run a program that i don't have enough RAM for, but i have 392,000 KB of RAm and my processor is 1.333 Ghz which is more than both my friends who run the same program (vegas video 2).

Do i need a new graphics card? (i have an SiS 630/730, which is outdated)
Do I have a bug?
Any suggestions, i'm desperate.
Thanks.

Comments

Tyler.Durden wrote on 6/17/2002, 7:19 AM
You might have resources sharing the same IRQ and you might be recording to your system drive.

Most folks find it best to dedicate a separate drive for video/audio and set their system up for just editing.

HTH, MPH
kdk2002 wrote on 6/17/2002, 11:25 AM
Yes, the problem could be with your hard drive. A seperate ATA/133 (or SCSI) drive would be preferered. Also, is your drive defragmeneted often? Diskeeper is the best I have ever used for defragmenting.

Upgrading your video card couldn't hurt either. I would also recommend AT LEAST 512KB of system RAM. It's so cheap now, I have 768 in my system.. works great.
HPV wrote on 6/17/2002, 12:15 PM
but i have 392,000 KB of RAm and my processor is 1.333 Ghz
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There are adjustments for audio in the prefs area/options menu. For video, preview window size and quality setting affects performance. My P4 with only 128MB of ram, but does have Geforce MX2 32mb video card, can do 27 to 30 frames per second thru two dv clips doing a disolve on a Vegas VGA preview window at 360x240. From either my video 60 gig or my system 30 gig ata 100 7200rpm drives.
Do you know the brand of your motherboard chipset? What Windows version ? Only one drive that is fragmented ?

Craig H.
clifburns wrote on 6/17/2002, 2:11 PM
How did you capture your video? I made the mistake (once) of using the USB cable that the Sony TRV27 comes packaged with. It was all unuseable, with dropped frames, audio problems, etc. -- sort of what you're describing. I recaptured with a IEE 1394 (Firewire/iLink) cable and everything was fine. The transfer rates for USB are just not fast enough to support the transfer.

Clif