VMS Rendering Audio Peaks takes a long time

WillGill wrote on 12/11/2005, 8:04 PM
Ex Pinnacle Studio 7, 8, 10 user and newb to VMS so forgive me if this is a stupid question.

I'm beginning my first project of putting 10 movie clips together. I drag and dropped my first clip on (about a 45 min long in HiDef format) and it then proceeded to render Audio Peaks on the line below. It never crashed and actually finished it, but I had to walk away and come back hours later before it was done making those audio peaks.

Can I speed that up, or just not have VMS render those audio peaks?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 12/11/2005, 8:47 PM
Something seems a little off there. I've put 2 hour MPEG files on the timeline and had the peaks drawn in a few minutes. Tell us some details about your system and where this HiDef file came from.
WillGill wrote on 12/14/2005, 1:36 PM
System I built myself. Athlon 64 x2 4000+ 2Gig DDR, 2x250Gig SATA HD's in RAID Stripe, 2xGeForce 7800 GTX everything water cooled and running like a champ.

The video I had to manipulate to correct it. It's an HD DivX that originally wouldn't load into the video line. I'm not sure if VMS takes DivX or not (I'm new to VMS) but I DO know that the DivX audio wasn't encoded correctly. At least that's what VirtualDub said.

So I used VirtualDub to fix it. I had to save the audio as a WAV file. Then offset the audio timing to match the video and I re-encoded as an uncompressed AVI. I did the uncompressed because I had to do many trial and error encodings to get the timing right and uncompressed encodings go fast.

Then the AVI would go into the video timeline in VMS but the audio peaks rendered for a long time. Maybe I should recompress the re-encoded movie clip?