VMS 10 Preview & Rendering Trouble

benjapathic wrote on 6/26/2010, 4:25 AM
Well.. I recently upgraded from VMS 9 to the new 10.. and it's been nothing but trouble since. I admit, I'd love to have a new i7 computer, but for now I have a 2 quadcore Vista, and VMS 9.. sorry to say.. worked much better.

I do some real estate video projects here and there, so I put in some photos with video.. and use keyframe animation to give the photos the pan or zoom look.. and in rendering.. the video came out fine.. but all of the photos rendered very choppy, framey, and distorted. Of course in preview. .it looks just fine. I tried lots of different formats, but.. always the same result. So I had to take out the pics.. render out the video i edited.. then go back to VMS 9.. and insert the pics to render out the whole thing together.. cos 9 is no problem.

I also noticed right away.. that the preview of the video is worse in 10, and so choppy.. that it's miserable to edit.. especially transitions as most know. I loaded some of my old VMS 9 projects.. and 10 could barely even play them. Note that these are not HD.. only smaller WMV files etc.. one was avi.. and i was only getting about 1 frame every 4 seconds.

So it's like it's backwards. cos the preview of the pics keytrame animation works great.. but doesn't render right.. while the preview of the video is awful.. but does render correctly.

I've tried adjusting the dynamic ram etc, and preview auto, draft, etc. How can you really edit, when looking at it in horrible quality anyway. I edit files that are youtube size.. 640x360.. how could i possibly use HD? It can't even handle these smaller wmv files.

So what's missing here? Did i miss some system requirement somewhere? VMS 9 works pretty well.. 10 not.. and is pretty much useless at this point to me. Sorry to be so negative.. I was excited about the upgrade hoping for some improvement lol.

Comments

MSmart wrote on 6/26/2010, 8:38 AM
For the preview issue, I was confused by that too at first. VMS10 automatically (by default) lowers the resolution to keep the FPS at 29.97. To force the resolution, right click in the preview window and deselect Adjust Size and Quality for Optimal Playback.
Folk wrote on 6/29/2010, 9:50 AM
And, counterintuitively, "Draft" is choppier than any other preview mode. Go figure...
dwendt wrote on 6/29/2010, 12:02 PM
I've been banging my head on the preview thing too. Based on comments above, I switched the setting from "Preview" to "Best" and ta-da! The preview window is finally functional. ("Good" is also, um, good.) Don't understand why "preview" doesn't actually allow previews in VMS10 (and works fine in VMS 9) but at least now I'm good to go, editing-wise...