VP11 Playback frame rates

Rv6tc wrote on 10/22/2011, 11:43 AM
I feel like I'm missing something. Initially, I was getting almost full frame rates playing back my footage with the settings of Good:Full. I was just editing some Multicam stuff, and the rates would drop into the teens changing clips, so I dropped the frame size, first to Good:half, then finally Preview:Auto. Now at Preview 480x270 I'm getting 8 fps! What the hell? This is with no color corrections or effects, just off the timeline. VP10 would do better and initially 11 would as well.

Has anyone broken the code on this one?

i7-2600K 4.4ghz, 16MB RAM, and GTX 560 video card (enabled)

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Rv6tc wrote on 10/22/2011, 12:05 PM
So I got angry at it and decided if I was going to watch choppy video, it might as well be in HiDef, and I set the playback to Best:full. I actually got BETTER framerates than I was getting in Preview. I noticed that the GPU usage went way up to achieve this. It's like the program is not ramping up the GPU processing until it really needs it or something.

If someone can recreate this or let me know if there is a setting I'm missing, I'd appreciate it.
Hulk wrote on 10/23/2011, 8:38 AM
I'm still using VP10 with a 2500k at 4GHz. Your CPU is more powerful than mine and I know in VP10 I can preview most AVCHD projects at full frame rate in the Best/Full preview setting. Worst case I'll go to Best/Auto for a tough section on rare occasion. Have tried just for kicks disabling the GPU and see how your CPU does on its own?

Steve Mann wrote on 10/23/2011, 9:14 AM
How do you monitor GPU usage?
Rv6tc wrote on 10/23/2011, 11:10 AM
Hulk. I'll try that today.

Steve. Someone in another thread here suggested a widget called GPU Observer. I use it for GPU usage and temps.

Here.... http://blog.orbmu2k.de/
mbarton wrote on 10/23/2011, 11:29 PM
Thanks for the tip. I was bringing in video onto the timeline and was getting very choppy preview like you described. When I tried to set it to Best-Full, I noticed that my project settings were NTSC-DV. When I had those match my media 1920x1080 60p, then the video preview was amazingly better than VP 10.