Shakey Preview in VMS platinum

FishDave wrote on 12/29/2007, 10:00 AM

I am a long time user of the VMS. I orignially purchased the program when it was sold by Sonic Foundry as Video Factory. I currently own VMS platinum 6. I just purchased a new video camara the canon HG10, a great camara. So of cousrse I want to edit the footage with VMS. I am planning on buying VMSP 8, so I downloaded the free trial. When I tried out the trial, I noticed that the preview is very jerky, to the point it makes editing very difficult. Am I the only one with this issue? Is there a fix? I am using an older machine, but it worked well with my old camara. The specs are:

AMD athlon XP 2700+
2 gig of RAM
SATA hard drives in striped array

I have also noted a few other things. When I bring in the camara video footage, I have a few black frames and when I have the footage on the timeline a few of the preview frames are shown as red. Any ideas?

Thanks for the help.

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Eugenia wrote on 12/29/2007, 11:23 AM

Your PC is not nearly fast enough for AVCHD. The HG10 is an AVCHD h.264 camera, and these cameras require really fast PCs to edit. You will have a better luck with an HDV camera (e.g. Canon HV20) instead of AVCHD, but even for HDV your PC is marginal in speed. You need to upgrade, the faster the better. 2+ GBs of RAM too. Or, return your camera and stay with DV. ;)

FishDave wrote on 12/29/2007, 11:43 AM

Thanks Eigenia. I have been looking at upgrading my PC. What do you recomend. I have been bouncing between the Core 2 Duo and the AMD X2. Which would you choose?

Thanks

Eugenia wrote on 12/29/2007, 1:38 PM

Go for a 2 GHz Core Duo or faster, and 2 GB of RAM if you are running XP, or 3 GB of RAM if you are using Vista (the 32bit Windows kernel will use 1 GB and will leave 2 GBs for Vegas -- I recommend XP for video editing btw). Get a GeForce 86000GTS 256 MB graphics card because this card is really fast in transfer rate (even if Vegas doesn't support its special extensions, it will benefit from the sheer 2D speed of the card). And get TWO hard drives. One holds all your footage, and the other one (C: drive) holds the temp files. This way you will get better performance. And make sure you have a large enough resolution on your monitor 1680x1050 ($250) or 1920x1200 ($400).

Overall, I'd say you are looking at a $1300 to $1500 PC.

FishDave wrote on 12/29/2007, 2:40 PM

Thanks. I plan on building the PC, and these details are great.

Action wrote on 12/29/2007, 4:19 PM

I've got the same problem with VMSP 8c (thread 8) but with a full on system including an ATI FireGL 5200 optimised for HD. Also 3 WD My Books running Firewire 400 and 800.

I capture with Cineform NEO HDV which is great......but I'm adding another 2G Ram to total 4G to stop the stutters in preview. I've seen the red frames when the system can't keep up with my editing speed.

Keep your QT up to date, Vegas uses some of its files. Mmm I wonder if QT PRO would improve things?