Unuseable -So slow

tbybee wrote on 5/21/2006, 7:49 AM

20 minute HD MEG4 can edit because any thing I do takes 45 secs to return. 4GB memory.
Do I have a setting wrong?

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dibbkd wrote on 5/21/2006, 7:51 AM

I've never edited HD before, but what's your CPU make/model? I've heard that dual-core high GHz is obviously better for HD editing.

And does regular SD editing take a long time too, or just your HD videos?

fldave wrote on 5/21/2006, 8:03 AM

MPEG4 is a delivery format, not an editing format.

Use a DV or HDV avi proxy for editing, get it the way you want it, then replace the proxy with the original for final render.

Of course the quality will not be as good as the original, because you are going from a compressed format to a further compressed format.