Please provide a screenshot of the Edit workspace with your project insitu. See Part E & F in the guide.

The diagnostic looks incomplete, no nfo in the lower section.

i5 may struggle with HD video. I'm wondering if you have Shadow Edit files being generated and you're starting to edit before they're all completed.

Dafydd

Quote: i5 may struggle with HD video. I'm wondering if you have Shadow Edit files being generated and you're starting to edit before they're all completed.

I have to take issue with you there, Dafydd. I'm running an i5 and it seems to be able to cope perfectly well with HD (not 4K, obviously). If fact I built the system specifically for editing HD and had to use an i5 due to budget limitations.

Secondly, the OP commented that his editing runs smoothly and he only has problems producing. Surely if he had uncompleted shadow file generation it would be his editing that would be affected. Regards,
Mike

Home-build system:
Intel Core i5 Quad Core 3.3GHz, 2 x 4GB DDR3 1333MHz,
Asus Nvidia GT440 1GB, 2 x Western Digital WD10EARS 1TB, 1 x Seagate ST1000DM010 1TB,
Windows 7 Prof 64-bit, PD 9 Ultra 64, PD 13 Ultimate 64

Hi Fenman,
Take issue, yeah, no problem.

I'm aware of the "production" rather than editing as being the issue mentioned. Shadow File generation throws up strange effects when the files are incomplete. I want to view what the OP has/is editing.

Please address the OP's issue. I'm fishing for useful information at the moment.

Dafydd

Ok, well his system looks marginally more powerful than mine plus he said that he successfully produced a 49-minute HD project last December so I would suggest that his problem does not lie with his hardware. In my opinion it's more likely that some software update in the interim period might be responsible. As you'll probably be aware I've frequently counselled against allowing Windows, and other applications, to perform automatic silent updates for that reason. This is particularly pertinent in the case of the NVidia graphics drivers.

I'm guessing his System Restore points won't go back to December but he could try performing a System Restore to the earliest one he has available. Regards,
Mike

Home-build system:
Intel Core i5 Quad Core 3.3GHz, 2 x 4GB DDR3 1333MHz,
Asus Nvidia GT440 1GB, 2 x Western Digital WD10EARS 1TB, 1 x Seagate ST1000DM010 1TB,
Windows 7 Prof 64-bit, PD 9 Ultra 64, PD 13 Ultimate 64

Quote: I've tried literally 20-30 times, scoured forums, tried uninstalling Geforce Experience, setting priority, regedit setting HKEY Cyberlink CES Functional Data settings to (0) etc etc etc. Editing runs smooth, can't produce. I'm guessing theres an Nvidia conflict somewhere. Open to all sugestions.

A system restore as suggested by Fenman should fix it. Uninstall the Geforce Experience if you have it installed. The pc should perform like it did in December of last year.

If you only recently upgraded to the 64 bit of win 7 then you can update to the latest nvidia graphics driver dated 8-30-2016 and again install it without the Geforce Experience. In the Preferences/Hardware Acceleration/ Uncheck both checkboxes and produce with Fast Video Rendering Technology unchecked.

Let us know if you can produce using the sample files now in any format.

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Dafydd

My apologies for not responding earlier. I used this as an excuse to upgrade my video card. I went and purchased a ATI Radeon RX 470. Installed, and thoroughly uninstalled all Nvidia software. The good news, I did have some limited success. It was crashing during production at the 30 sec to 1-2 minute mark. My 39 minute video did finish producing after about 4-5 attempts using AVC custom @ 1920x1080 MP4. My second video at 34 minutes has not finished production though after about 20 attempts. The content of both is almost exactly the same, all video clips from an iPhone 5s. Sometimes I get to 30%- 50% and a frustrating 87%. I have the Windows Task Manager open on the performance tab. The CPU does indeed chug along at 100%. I've only attempted 1980x1080 in AVC (Custom) HEVC (Custom) and Windows Media.

Again all editing performs flawlessly, playback is usually very smooth. Production is my issue. And yes, I unchecked hardware acceleration.

Please advise, and a sincere Thank You for the help.

iphone video, more than likely variable framerate causing PD14 some issues. Simply process your video in Handbrake at a fixed framerate and then import into PD14 for editing, probably no PD14 produce issues then.

Jeff

The timeline screenshot show that you start off with 4x3 still photos and it looks like your project setting is at 4:3 instead of 16:9 which comprise of the majority which are video clips. The resolution of the screenshot is too low to confirm that setting.