Many clips issue?

nickyb1982

Newbie Joined: Jul 27, 2013 04:14 Messages: 14 Offline

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Feb 01, 2016 06:59

I have experienced problems with both PD11 and now PD14 when i use many video clips on the same project.

I am talking about chopping up many clips recorded on mobile phones and used in a 4 minute video, to produce a music video.

I am guessing i have about 30 short clips over a 4 min period, all with audio turned off. I do not have many effects on them, some have speed change, a few have fade out, but nothing else. If i go to edit a clip in the middle somewhere and put an effect on it, it seems to mess up clips later on in the timeline (some go jerky, some lose the effect they had, some speed up, slow down or trim the end off).

A fix i found was to move the clip i want to edit completely away, put an effect on or edit however, and then move it back into its position on the timeline. Even then this did not work sometimes and was causing problems with the next clips.

It was starting to drive me crazy. sometimes i thought i had fixed it all and then i'd produce it and realise one clip just stutters a bit, and i have to go back and try and fix it again. Infuriating when you have spent hours already trying to perfect it.

Any idea why this is happening? Is it just that PD is not very good at handling as many short clips as that over a small amount of timeline?

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Feb 01, 2016 07:55

Hi nickyb1982,
Please provide:
1. A diagnostic of your editing computer.
2. A screenshot of the Edit workspace with your project insitu.
3. Data on the video, Please use MediaInfo.
Guides Part B, E, F and J.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/45453.page

I'm guessing here and I'm wondering if your computer is basically struggling to process the data. I know that PDR11 did have more problems displaying multitracks with multiple HD in one project I have whereas in PDR14 it displayed a heck of a lot better- same project.

Solution, maybe uncheck real-time previewing.

The data I have asked for will give members a better picture of what you have and what you're editing (looking at).
Dafydd

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Anonymous

Feb 01, 2016 12:33

Hi everybody!

I just read something similar in another thread about shooting videos on a mobile phone(or "cell-phone" as you call them up there in the USA). To be brutally frank I wish they'd never put cameras in those things! A mobile (cell) phone's primary function is for communication "on the move". Videos should be shot with dedicated hardware, towit, the videocamera! There are some great cameras out there that will do a far better job than what can be achieved with a camera built into a mobile phone, and what's more, you can have stereo sound on your videos. Just thought I'd mention it!

Cheers!

Neil.