Video preview window not previewing!

djsmitherman wrote on 3/9/2004, 7:37 PM

I've recently installed Screenblast Movie Studio 3.0. I'm making a straightforward slide show - a few pictures laid side by side on the video track. I click on the play button, and the first image shows in the preview window, but when the play cursor gets to the second image, the preview doesn't change. The play cursor continues moving to the next images, and I'm still looking at the first image in the preview window.

I rendered this simply deal to avi, and played it, and the images with transitions show as expected.

The computer is an hp pavilion mx70, 2.5 ghz pentium 4 processor with 504 mb of ram and 70 gb hard drive.

Any help you can give would be most appreciated.

Danny

Comments

bwilliamson wrote on 3/11/2004, 9:59 AM

I've seen this behavior. It just means your machine can't keep up.

Make sure the preview window picture quality is set to "Preview Quality", not "Good" or "Best" quality. Also, preview at the smaller preview window size, not the large one.

When this happened to me, I had to edit by moving the cursor frame by frame around the edit points and *waiting* until the machine caight up with me. A major pain in the a**.

You can also render small portions of your movie if you need to check your work.

djsmitherman wrote on 3/11/2004, 9:14 PM

Thanks for the reply. I'll give this a try.

Danny

IanG wrote on 3/12/2004, 12:50 AM

Even with a much slower pc I've never seen this problem - at least not this bad. How big are the stills you're using?

Ian G.

Electromen wrote on 3/13/2004, 3:11 PM

If your video preview window is not working, make sure you have not accidentally select to view the preview on "External Monitor" or have an FX placed on the preview window. To ensure it is nothing of this nature, close out of the program. Before restarting the application, hold down the Shift+Ctrl key. While holding down these keys, double click the Icon for the application. Drag an item to the timeline. Are you now able to properly preview video?