timeline editing sucks

fireball wrote on 4/10/2011, 3:39 AM
I gone out and bought a I 7 comp with 8ram smoking video card and this program still runs like junk!DONT BUY !!!!!!!!email support hahaha no reply on that!I still getting slow frame rate playback on editing timeline starts out smooth and at 29.7 but soon it drops right on down to 4-5 so its so choppy its a pain to look at! Its funny the tutorial (sky dive) plays back just fine so whys that?When i view clip in preview window plays great but put that clip in timeline play to edit starts at 29 then starts decreasing steadly is this the way this program supposed to work

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Chienworks wrote on 4/10/2011, 5:10 AM
The video card doesn't matter at all.

What are your project settings?
What type of video media are you putting on the timeline? Where did it come from?
What effects to you have applied?
Are you using any compositing?
Are you using pan/crop or track motion?
EGS wrote on 4/10/2011, 11:56 AM
Quote: "... this program still runs like junk!DONT BUY !!!!!!!!" Works fine here.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 4/10/2011, 2:04 PM
I agree. I'm not sure the point of coming to a forum where people are trying to help people and just slamming the software.

But oh well.
pierreontheair wrote on 4/11/2011, 2:37 AM
Hi there,

I was also very disappointed by the jerky/slow preview when editing AVCHD material. From reading various forums/posts, it seems that this will always be an issue with AVCHD clips, irrespective of the power of your PC.

The only solution I found is proxy editing. I was initially reluctant to go that route, but it actually works quite well. You can google it, but basically you create lower resolution clips (in a simple format such as MPEG2) and do all the editing with these. Once you are done, you simply replace all the media files with original ones (AVCHD) in Vegas (Media window). Alternatively, you can simply replace the low-res files with original ones in the same folder; you then re-open Vegas and your project is now in AVCHD. All editing, effects are applied to the AVCHD source, as they were to the MPEG2 files. All you have to do then is hit the render button.

Good luck !
Pierre
shooke wrote on 4/16/2011, 5:38 PM
Probably so steve but sony also should not provide a trial version that does not play like the bought version $130.
musicvid10 wrote on 4/16/2011, 6:38 PM
Probably so steve but sony also should not provide a trial version that does not play like the bought version $130.

Just what is that??
The trial version is the paid version. You just enter a registration key and it keeps working past the end of the trial period.
drguitar0001 wrote on 4/18/2011, 6:40 AM
"I agree. I'm not sure the point of coming to a forum where people are trying to help people and just slamming the software."

Actually, I understand this feeling all too well. "Fireball" claims he/she bought a screaming fast computer (assume costly) and is still having problems with VMS 10. It also sounds from the post that this person tried to contact Sony support through the email channels and has not received a response.

I think you can assume that "fireball" is as the very least frustrated and angry. If the worst he/she does is come to this forum to vent that frustration, than Sony has won again since Sony now has their money and does not need to do any thing else (like pay to give this person support). It is another win/win for Sony.