VMS jittery footage

JimVertigo wrote on 12/26/2010, 5:32 PM
Hi there everyone,

I'm running VMS 9 Platinum Pro pack on a computer with an AMD athlon 64 x 2 Dual core processor 5000+ 2.60GHz with 3 GB of Ram on windows Vista 32 bit. My footage that I've been working with for about a week has been great until yesterday. I put a particular project onto a new external 1tb drive that is connected to my pc via firewire 800. I opened the project on my new drive and started playing it and the video was very jittery like it was skipping a few frames every few seconds. The audio seemed fine. But, now that I've tried playing it again earlier off of my external drive, the footage is still jittery but, the audio has also started dropping out at some points. I went to my internal hard drive and played the same project and it seemed perfectly fine until the last 30 seconds of the footage and it started looking jittery and dropping out audio as well. Is my processor too slow now for VMS 9 and will the problem get even worse if I upgrade to VMS 10? Thanks so much for any help you can render.

Jim

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musicvid10 wrote on 12/26/2010, 6:03 PM
Silly question, what is your "footage"??
Details, please?
JimVertigo wrote on 12/26/2010, 6:13 PM
lol...sorry...left that part out. It's video and audio footage of a single song from a live music performance. It's from a dv tape and I fed the video into the VMS via my dv camera. The footage last about 4 minutes and I have added some text with a audio and video fade in to t he beginning, and and audio and video fade out to the end. Plain enough right? I'm only in my first week of using this software so....maybe it's something obvious that's wrong eh?

Thanks.
JimVertigo wrote on 12/26/2010, 6:15 PM
PS- and now that I've played it one more time from the external drive and one more time from the internal drive.....the footage looks perfectly fine on both counts with the exception of a single second or so where a few frames dropped out during the transfer process I think. So far then, it looks like an intermittent problem?
musicvid10 wrote on 12/26/2010, 6:26 PM
Captured DV-AVI should not stutter in the Vegas preview under any circumstances, regardless of the drive or connection. It is kind of at the low end of demands on any point in the system. Your CPU should handle DV-AVI preview playback smoothly.

Please look at this Knowledgebase article and see if your Project / Preview settings are the culprit:
Achieving smooth playback in the Video Preview
JimVertigo wrote on 12/26/2010, 8:20 PM
Hey musicvid,

Thanks for the link. It seems to me that everything is as it should be according to that particular article. The only other strange thing that I can think may have created some sort of problem was that Itunes was installed on my hard drive back like 3 days ago. After that install, the system started doing some strange things like locking up, putting me into safemode when I booted up, re arranging some of my music files under windows media player, etc. I immediately blamed Itunes for the troubles cause I figured that I tunes is a Mac product, and I'm running Windows Vista 32 bit. Why wouldn't there be some issues with a mac program running under a windows environment? And the Itunes file was pretty dang big too.....so...as of yesterday I think...I just totally deleted Itunes as I don't need it anyways. I've got a MS Zune as my mp3 player and software runs for that hardware item. I wonder if the two weren't battling it out for priority or not? A roomate was trying to convert an mp3 file from my zune into an emailable file through Itunes as we couldn't figure out how to do it with just WMP or with the Zune Software so...... there in may lie my problem. I'm going to reboot and see if I still have any issues. Thanks again for your help and if after my reboot, things with VMS playback seem jumpy still.....I 'll just go back and tripple check the suggestions in the article you forwarded to me.

Thanks again.

Jim
musicvid10 wrote on 12/26/2010, 8:28 PM
DV-AVI uses the native Sony and Windows libs, so I can't see why Quicktime itself would have any effect on your playback issues. But stranger things have happened, or so they say.

A reinstallation of your video drivers might be in order, can't hurt.

Best of luck, and report back with what you find. Generally speaking, DV-AVI will play / preview seamlessly on much more modest installations than yours.