ilikeriding Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 I'm using sony vegas 7 and adobe premier pro 3 with some footage from a lil hd cam, problem isn when I play the footage in the preview box in both programs its really jerky. I don't want to convert the footage and rape the quality so it plays properly in preview so I'm a bit stumped as to what to do... any ideas anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 How 'good' is your computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 Lower the preview quality? Get a better graphics card? Maybe try saving it off to an AVI then bringing that back in, some things have trouble playing certain formats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikeriding Posted July 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 (edited) How 'good' is your computer? on a scale of one to ten I'd say its about a 6 Lower the preview quality? Get a better graphics card? Maybe try saving it off to an AVI then bringing that back in, some things have trouble playing certain formats. Tried both of those, graphics card maybe be my last option, I guess i was hoping for some kind of magical solution Edited July 13, 2010 by ilikeriding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Editing HD takes a lot of power. What are the specs of the PC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 on a scale of one to ten I'd say its about a 6 That's about as helpful as saying it has a screen and keyboard. If you're editing 720p or low bitrate 1080 then you'll need a dual core processor at 3.0ghz or higher and for full bitrate 1080 you'll need a quad at similar speed. 2gb RAM minimum and a graphics card with hardware accelerated h.264 support would be helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Editing HD takes a lot of power. What are the specs of the PC? This is the problem, I run a 2ghz processor an 4gig ram which will just about play hd without spitting its dummy out but editing is a royal pain in the ass! Your best bet is to convert it to the best possible resolution your pc can handle without it jerking about so as not to lose too much quality! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Tea Why Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 In vegas, what quality is the preview box set to? Draft/Preview/Good/Best? Try setting it to preview (auto). Also go into properties and you can allocate more RAM for the preview box. If that doesn't work you could always highlight the bit of the timeline that you want to watch and hit Shift + B to render a RAM preview. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Back in the old days when HD was a novelty I found that an Athlon X2 6000+ CPU and 2 gigs of ram was the minimum to achieve a smooth editing environment. Rendering still took ages on that though. Graphic cards do not help with video editing. Well, some do but you need a special card with special software to make use of that. It's called CUDA in case you want to look it up. I've been using this for a while now and the upshot of it is that it doesn't work anyway. You need a good CPU and lots of memory. I'm currently at 8gb and with larger vids, Premiere can take up even 5gb of that memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted July 15, 2010 Report Share Posted July 15, 2010 Graphic cards do not help with video editing. Well, some do but you need a special card with special software to make use of that. It's called CUDA in case you want to look it up. I've been using this for a while now and the upshot of it is that it doesn't work anyway. Not necessarily. If he's using a machine with onboard VGA any graphics card will most likely improve the fluidity of HD playback, taking some of the strain from the CPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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