I have a brand new Alienware Aurora with an Intel i7 960 and 12 gigs of RAM running on Windows 7 64 bit, and at every turn, my new Movie Studio 10 Platinum goes into "Not Responding" mode for 10 second increments making editing an impossibility.
I'm trying to edit HD footage shot on my roommate's Creative Vado HD. At first, the AVI files it recorded wouldn't even register in Movie Maker, but after downloading a codec pack, that's all squared away. Now every time I try to view any footage, even if it's just a 2 second clip, the system gets impossibly choppy and any attempts to move the slider sends me long "Not Responding" messages. I've tried putting the playback on Draft Quarter, but nothing changes.
I'm only moderately versed in editing software and the internal workings of the computer, but all my knowledge and research indicates my system should be able to handle this workload just fine. Does anyone have any suggestions? Did I invest in a system that isn't as "up to snuff" as I thought?
I'm trying to edit HD footage shot on my roommate's Creative Vado HD. At first, the AVI files it recorded wouldn't even register in Movie Maker, but after downloading a codec pack, that's all squared away. Now every time I try to view any footage, even if it's just a 2 second clip, the system gets impossibly choppy and any attempts to move the slider sends me long "Not Responding" messages. I've tried putting the playback on Draft Quarter, but nothing changes.
I'm only moderately versed in editing software and the internal workings of the computer, but all my knowledge and research indicates my system should be able to handle this workload just fine. Does anyone have any suggestions? Did I invest in a system that isn't as "up to snuff" as I thought?