• VEGAS Pro

  Transitions Choppy Still!

  Posted by Ron Whitaker on December 6, 2011 at 1:35 am

  I posted a few months ago about simple transitions between two video clips being very choppy.

  At the time, I had an Acer laptop with a Core i5 and 4GB of RAM.

  Well, long story short, last August my house was burglarized and my beloved laptop was taken.

  So, since then, I got another Acer laptop with a Core i7 and 8GB of RAM. I thought editing in Vegas Pro 11 would be smoother and I would be able to view simple transitions in the Preview window.

  Why would they still be choppy? This is irritating. I wouldn’t think that a simple crossfade would take up that much CPU power or RAM, or does it?

  Thanks for all replies.

  Ron Whitaker replied 14 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mike Kujbida

  December 6, 2011 at 1:58 am

  “I wouldn’t think that a simple crossfade would take up that much CPU power or RAM, or does it?”

  No it doesn’t.
  What kind of footage do you have on your timeline?
  Do you have any FX applied to it?
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  Ron Whitaker

  December 6, 2011 at 2:31 am

  The file is a small .WMV file.

  I do not have any FX applied. I only have two small clips (actually it’s one clip that I’ve split), and I take the clip on the right and overlap it a bit over the clip on the left to create a crossfade.
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  Danny Hays

  December 6, 2011 at 6:24 am

  WMV is a compressed delivery type format, not really suitable for editing. If the WMV files are SD, 720×480, try converting them to DV AVI and see if that helps.
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  Ron Whitaker

  December 6, 2011 at 7:58 pm

  I’ll try that.

  Thank you.

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