Mysterious Freeze

rextilleon wrote on 9/19/2002, 9:33 AM

Has anyone ever experienced the following. You are editing along, not a care in the world--lots of media on the time line, lots of moving stuff around--when all of a sudden--- TEMPORARY FREEZE. After a couple of seconds to a couple of minutes the program is once again usable (without rebooting or closing through Task Manager--I have Windows XP) Sometimes this occurs after performing a cut, adding an effect etc (no rhyme or reason.) I have pretty much configured my computer as per the Knowledge Base but still seem to have the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

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snicholshms wrote on 9/19/2002, 1:09 PM

Rex:
WELCOME TO THE CLUB!!! This is extremely frustrating as it wastes a lot of time...and we don't have a lot of that to waste when we're editing!
I use firewire hard drives and I've heard that may cause this "stutter/freeze" problem in VV3.
There was a post in this forum from a SF Tech Rep stating that this problem occurred in ACID4.0 but they corrected it.
The correction should be included in the next VV3 version.
I hope SF decideds to offer a PATCH FOR THIS PROBLEM...ASAP! Prior to a new version of VV3.
Steve

rextilleon wrote on 9/19/2002, 2:23 PM

Thats interesting----maybe its a function of daisy chaining my fire wire drives? Could it have anything to do with my processer speed (1ghz) emmmmmmm?

Carel wrote on 9/19/2002, 4:01 PM

It may just be the FW drive, daisy-chained or not. I had many of those freezes and switched the HD to a USB-2 enclosure. No more problems!

vectorskink wrote on 9/20/2002, 1:13 AM

I sometimes experience this, and I have no firewire HDDs. Even when theres nothing connected to the firewire ports on my PC, I occasionally get the "mysterious freeze"

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