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Ouch.
Thanks, Tony, for those charts. Puts things in perspective.
I'll check into an upgrade on the video card tomorrow.
Stay tuned and I will report (by "report" I mean ask more questions, ha) as things progress.
Thanks Everyone.
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Great stuff, Guys. Thanks.
First off, my mistake. I'm running Vista on this computer.
I've attached the Windows Experience results. Are they as bad as I think? Any ideas on how to increase them?
I adjusted the preview quality. Thanks Carl312. (Tough to miss that button.) Still catching as before.
It seems strange to me that the CPU is running at 50% (give or take) when all I have done is open PD10 and opened my movie file. The movie is not previewing/running.
Has anyone looked at the log files for ricm and myself? As far as I can tell my computer meets the minimum requirements for PD10.
Thanks again.
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Thanks Kingsmeadow. Pretty easy.
Interesting results. I would be interested to see if you guys are getting something similar.
When no programs are running my CPU is running about 2-5%. When I open PD10 and my movie, but it is not running, it jumps to a pretty consistent 50-55%. Once the movie is being previewed, but on pause, it is hovering around 75%. When the movie is running it runs between 75 and 100%. When it hits 100% it begins to skip and then freeze. This happens not only on transitions, but more often than not. There is always a spike as the next clip begins.
Something else that is interesting is that some clips require more CPU usage than others. A few clips can run at 75% while others spike and push the usage up to 85-90%. These are the problem clips, of course.
I tried pausing the movie here and there when the usage spiked to see if I could stop the freeze. Maybe the CPU could catch up. Nope. Didn't work.
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Thanks, folks, for giving us a hand on this. I spent some time last night trying some different things. None of them worked, but we might be able to cross them off the list of possible solutions.
1. I couldn't find where to change the preview quality so I changed the preview screen size to as small as I could and still see the movie thinking this might reduce the load on the machine. Same result. Like ricm I then tried to render with no preview (in Standard rather the High Quality as before) and got the same freezing as before.
2. Thinking it was a resource problem, I ran msconfig on the start line and turned off all non-microsoft background programs (included anti-virus) and rebooted. Same halting and freezing. I also made sure my temp folders were empty.
3. In a "hail mary" I moved my raw footage files to the same folder that I have PD thinking maybe there was a delay finding the video files.
4. Finally, I once again deleted the fade transitions and ran without them as well with others. It does seem to consistently freeze on the transitions.
Last night I was convinced that the 4 GB of memory that I have is not enough. But I see that Jayson has 8GB and has the same problems. I have never messed with the BIOS on this machine so I assume they are set to a standard setting.
My next idea is to monitor the CPU usage graph as I run the movie. Does anyone know how to do this in Windows 7?
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Attached is my DxDiag.txt file. Maybe a comparison will help?
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Hey Ricm,
I can't offer any help at this point, but I am experiencing the same problem in PD10. I'm trying to put together my first movie so I am just a beginner. The same issue arises of video freezes on the time line while audio plays. The rendering does the same thing. My video was taken in mp4 I've tried rendering in mp4 (preferred) as well as .avi and .mov. Same problem in all of them. I'm using fade transitions which I read in one forum might be an issue. I took out all transitions and had the same problem. My freezes are totally random. One time through one clip will freeze. Next time it might be two others. My freezes do seem to occur for one full clip, not starting in the middle.
I did do a uninstall and reinstall recently to try and correct another problem.
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