Freezing Video During Editing and Production

My2Blessings

Newbie Joined: Jan 11, 2012 13:12 Messages: 4 Offline

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Jan 24, 2012 14:23

Thank you Dafydd for getting me pointed in the right direction.

I am experiencing freezing in my playback during the editing process. This of course translates into more of the same during production. I found that it only happens when I have transitions in the timeline. It doesn't happen with every clip either. I am attaching all the things I think I'm supposed to, in the hopes that one or more of you wonderfully bright people on here can help me. I just want to make family vidoes - nothing too fancy! Right now the videos I'm shooting are with a DSLR camera. Don't know if that makes any difference. Oh, and noticed when I was pulling up the SR#, it says 32bit under PowerDirector. Does it say that even if it downloads the 64?

I run Win7 - 64 bit
PD10 Deluxe - 10.0.0.1129b
SR# VDE111213-07
I run BitDefender 2012 for security
I have Picasa3 and Adobe Photoshop/Premiere Elements 8 (uninstalled Premiere yesterday)

Hope I did it all right. I appreciate any help I can get. Just want to move on.

Filename	MVI_9859.mov	Download
Description	video clip
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Downloaded:	197 time(s)

Dafydd B

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

Jan 25, 2012 10:46

Hi,
Thank you for the attachment.

Please can you provide the diagnostic file(s) which will help a great deal?
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/7958.page
Part B

Please look at your Preview Player settings, see attached image guide. You may need to lower your Preview settings.

Dafydd


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My2Blessings

Newbie Joined: Jan 11, 2012 13:12 Messages: 4 Offline

Jan 25, 2012 16:17

Thank you for taking a look at this for me! I uninstalled both Adobe programs now and uninstalled/reinstalled PD10. I have had success processing two videos this morning. As long as I don't try to view them in PD10, they look great. I had already been changing my view to the lowest setting and still getting the freezing. Glad my production is going well, but it makes it difficult to edit when freezing. Is there a way to render the clips before working with them in editing? Again, I really appreciate your time. You guys are saints for doing this.

I thought I had attached the DxDiag on the last entry, but I'm attaching it here. :~D

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Felconian

Newbie Joined: Jan 20, 2012 12:51 Messages: 12 Offline

Jan 25, 2012 18:00

Hi My2Blessings

I have to as well ... :

...

This problem is spread all over the forums and i have it as well. It tried everything these guys on this forum suggested but still i got the random Freezing.

So i dont think its your side with the problem. I got so fedup i bought Adobe Premeir and bam ... it works like a charm straight out of the box!

James1

Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline

Jan 25, 2012 18:08

Hi,
If you have the Deluxe version I don't think it is 64Bit program only the Ultra is 65Bit...I could be wrong tho'
Jim

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My2Blessings

Newbie Joined: Jan 11, 2012 13:12 Messages: 4 Offline

Feb 02, 2012 15:34

Not sure if the 64 bit thing is the problem. Anyone know? I've also been playing around with settings and am getting better results until I put the transitions back in. Then we get the freezing again during editing.

I would appreciate anyone who could look at my computer information posted earlier, and let me know if they see a problem.

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Feb 02, 2012 16:55

Hi My2Blessings -

The videos you're shooting with the DSLR have a high bitrate (similar to the .MOV files from my Canon DSLR) - 45.4MBps.

Even though your GPU (Nvidia GTX 460) is a high end card - http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+460

your Quad core CPU fits more in the midrange http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+Phenom+9150e+Quad-Core

I suspect the high bitrate of the clips has something to do with how your PC is processing the transitions, but someone more technically astute might be able to advise you better.

In Preferences, do you have Hardware Acceleration turned on or off?

Cheers - Tony
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