new user, experiencing serious lag

antiman

Newbie Joined: Dec 16, 2017 12:45 Messages: 29 Offline

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Dec 16, 2017 13:00

just purchased the ultimate director 16 package, primarily to try color grading. been having fun for about a year with movavi, upgrading to get more features.
yesterday i made my first test video. once i go into color director and add luts or grading it becomes frustratingly slow/laggy. in my test project there was 1 minute 10 sec worth of hd video clips, an mp4 song added, and color grading. not a huge project!
when i produced a copy i set it to 1920x1080 60 fps to see quality. it took almost a half hour to render, and final video was badly stuttering, both video and audio choppy...
on a wacom cintiq companion i7 2.80 ghz 8 gig ram 64 bit.
should i be having such a problem? any suggestions would be much appreciated

AlanR47

Senior Member Location: Norfolk UK Joined: Dec 08, 2017 05:01 Messages: 151 Offline

Dec 16, 2017 13:41

being new to PD16 I might be tempted to examine settings - I found a lot - and one might just make a significant difference.

Is this slowness only when using ColorDirector grading and LUTS etc?

Alan.

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PepsiMan

Senior Contributor Location: Clarksville, TN Joined: Dec 29, 2010 01:20 Messages: 1054 Offline

Dec 19, 2017 07:43

welcome to the forum.

Quote ... both video and audio choppy... on a wacom cintiq companion i7 2.80 ghz 8 gig ram 64 bit...
should i be having such a problem? any suggestions would be much appreciated

first, PD uses up to 8GB RAM and second your i7 with suffix U doesn't have what it takes. yours is little bit faster than AMD Phenom II X4 965 rated at 4208-4223.
my 6 years old dell xps with i7-2720qm is lot faster Lagging computer while editing then yours. in that posts click on the ebay link, sellers are selling pcs at identical prices but newer i7-7700hq is much faster than i7-3840qm laptop. differences between those two is m6700 can run w7 & w10. m7567 w10 OS only.
read my suggestions on PC for editing videos New PC for video editing; advice sought. general BLUF is higher the CPU & GPU numbers less pain and higher the rated wattage >125W means a big(bigger) hole in your wallet. sample Intel Xeon E5-2660 v1 with GeForce GTX 1050Ti .
hope you're good whole year. Christmas is around the corner and santa or mrs santa can help... ^^

oh happy happy joy joy
PepsiMan
'garbage in garbage out'

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antiman

Newbie Joined: Dec 16, 2017 12:45 Messages: 29 Offline

Dec 19, 2017 08:10

Quote welcome to the forum.

Quote ... both video and audio choppy... on a wacom cintiq companion i7 2.80 ghz 8 gig ram 64 bit...
should i be having such a problem? any suggestions would be much appreciated

first, PD uses up to 8GB RAM and second your i7 with suffix U doesn't have what it takes. yours is little bit faster than AMD Phenom II X4 965 rated at 4208-4223.
my 6 years old dell xps with i7-2720qm is lot faster Lagging computer while editing then yours. in that posts click on the ebay link, sellers are selling pcs at identical prices but newer i7-7700hq is much faster than i7-3840qm laptop. differences between those two is m6700 can run w7 & w10. m7567 w10 OS only.
read my suggestions on PC for editing videos New PC for video editing; advice sought. general BLUF is higher the CPU & GPU numbers less pain and higher the rated wattage >125W means a big(bigger) hole in your wallet. sample Intel Xeon E5-2660 v1 with GeForce GTX 1050Ti .
hope you're good whole year. Christmas is around the corner and santa or mrs santa can help... ^^

oh happy happy joy joy
PepsiMan
'garbage in garbage out'

Thanks for the reply...