Just starting

Pushka wrote on 9/25/2010, 1:15 PM

Hi Guys,
I've just purchased Vegas 10 and am quite excited to get started. However, when I place a AVCHD clip into the timeline and play it back it is all juddery, if that's the word. But not the case when played back in Windows Media Player. So have I got the initial settings wrong? It is an NTSC clip from a Sony camera shot in the US.
Any help would be appreciated

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Markk655 wrote on 9/25/2010, 6:04 PM

What are your computer specs? AVCHD (1920x1080 and even 1440x1080 to some extent) are very difficult to play back stutter-free except on very high end cpus. This is especially true for playback in editors such as VMS.

Pushka wrote on 9/25/2010, 9:28 PM

Hi Mark,

I have an AMD Athlon 64 X 2 Duo Core processor 4200 2.2 Ghz with 4Gb of RAM. I would have thought it fast enough to deal with the clips on the timeline.

Thanks

Markk655 wrote on 9/27/2010, 6:10 AM

I think unless you use proxy files (search for Eugenia's tutorial in this forum), you will likely get a stuttered preview in VMS. Although check your preview settings (try preview (auto)) to start and see how much stuttering you get.

jg0001 wrote on 9/30/2010, 4:29 PM

The preview quality is weak, but it doesn't affect the actual rendering quality. Don't worry about it.

Pushka wrote on 10/6/2010, 8:03 PM

Thanks for all your help guys