Scrolling "Ending Credits" delay

GrampyPeter

Newbie Joined: Apr 07, 2011 00:55 Messages: 20 Offline

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Jun 27, 2014 20:58

I have PD 10. I'm using an HP laptop, core i7 Intel proc, 8 GB ram.

I'm using a scroll "Ending credits 002" in my video. It works but it delays starting for 2-4 seconds and jumps in to the middle of the credits before displaying. I've tried running it on different tracks with and without my mainline video on track 1 active. Makes no difference. I had trouble with this on an earlier project too. Any suggestions? Thank you, Peter

Follow-up. I opened a new file and the only thing I put in was the four scrolling files, one after the other, that are available in the Title Room. They all worked perfectly. I have no other apps running on my PC except the usual background stuff.

So, what is wrong with my main video? I have a lot of slides (approx 900) displayed for 3.5 seconds each. No transitions, no fancy graphic tricks. I also have an audio track. The video is about 45 minutes long. Everything runs well except the ending scroll. It behaves the same whether I have it at the end, the middle or the beginning. AAARG!

For what its worth, I opened task manager and watched my CPU usage when the ending credits came on. Nothing unusual; stayed about 25% +- where it's at during most of the video. One surprise I did see was when I displayed a slide that had "fix/enhance" color correction done, the CPU hits 100%. Does this on all of the corrected slides. Another AAARG!

James Dotson

Senior Contributor Location: Tennessee Joined: Aug 24, 2009 20:40 Messages: 3066 Offline

Jun 27, 2014 23:05

First, attach a dxdiag.txt and we will have a look. Then, as a workaround until the problem is found, you could try producing just the credits and add that to the end of your movie. Won't work so well if the credits are scrollong with a clip in the background. __________________________________
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GrampyPeter

Newbie Joined: Apr 07, 2011 00:55 Messages: 20 Offline

Jun 27, 2014 23:20

Thanks Jaime-esque for offering to take a look. Hope something simple is found. Peter

Filename	DxDiag.txt	Download
Description	Diagnostic for Peter Cunningham computer
Filesize	31 Kbytes
Downloaded:	358 time(s)

stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Jun 28, 2014 08:19

As usual, update your video card/chip driver from the manufacturer. Don't trust Windows to be accurate. There should be one available from 2013; yours is older.

I noticed that you have pretty full hard drives and USB connected hard drive. Are all your resources on your system drive? (The suggestion is to put copies of all your resources (videos, images, music, etc.) into one new folder

Can you clear some space on your drives? Make sure that all your drives are defragged. If your CPU has to search for all the fragments, then there may be some delays. Don't defrag a SSD.

Can you take a screen shot of the timeline showing the sections around the scrolling credits. Did you check for overlaps? .
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GrampyPeter

Newbie Joined: Apr 07, 2011 00:55 Messages: 20 Offline

Jun 28, 2014 23:18

Steve thanks for the reply.
1. I checked with HP and they say all drivers are current.

2. I have an SSD as my C drive and all my data is on my D drive, 500GB HD.
I "packed" my video so as to have all the resources retained in one folder. I copied the folder to my C: drive and opened it from their with PD. The same delay problems occur there. I read a Forum comment regarding an unrelated video issue and the author said one should have at least 100GB available on the system for Hi def editing. I have less than half that on my system C drive. Maybe that's part of my problem. It's a small SSD, maybe I should move up now that prices are coming down.

3. I checked for overlaps by highlighting the video track, expanding the scale, and could see no overlaps or gaps.

I'm working around the delay issue by following a previous comment by Jaime-esque. I'm making my scrolls into an mp4 file and inserting it into my video timeline. That works fine but not very convenient.

Anyway, I'm going to burn a DVD and see what other problems show up.
Thanks for your help., Peter