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Video playback jitter
Hello, all and any help will be appreciated.
I am editting HDV and getting a lot of jittering in the playback. I have updated my drivers, which works for a while, (after re-re-installing) but the problem returns – especially if I open another application.
I have 2gb ram and 400gb on the drive, so no probs there. It seems to be the worst if I open (regardless of whether Pro is open at the time) Photoshop – even if I close it before opening Pro.
I am going I N S A N E.
Thanks very much!!
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9 Replies
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How old/new – fast is your system?
Is this a new problem?
– Jon 🙂How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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It is quite new, less than 1 year. It’s been a problem since I upgraded to CS3 and went HD. Vegas seems to handle it ok, no jitters there – but I am more than half way through and really have no desire to start over in another prgram… plus I LIKE PP!
Thank you 🙂
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1 year old doesn’t mean much…
What are the specs on the processor?
– Jon 🙂
How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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Ohh, Sorry.
It is (and I quote)
AMD athlon 64x 2 duel core processor 3800 (my partner has a quad and I hate him, Pro works fine on it) 2GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM
It seems to work ok if you restart the computer and only open CS3, it lasts for quite a long time before freaking out. I also did the ol ‘one button checkup’ from norton and it said I had invalid .ppj file extensions… is this just a typical norton hiccup or more sinister?
I should also note that it takes a loooong time to boot up this particular project. I’m talking 5 mins or so…
THANK YOU 🙂
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u should make sure ur specs are ok.
check them here
– jon 🙂How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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There are a lot of experts which don’t like to use Norton Security programs as they hog a lot of the processor resources.
I’d try to uninstall Norton – note you may need to do more than just the regular “Add/Remove” – do some research.
It may be trying to virus sweep while you’re rendering. -
[butterflyman] “There are a lot of experts which don’t like to use Norton Security programs as they hog a lot of the processor resources.”
That was my first wince point. When I was a Mac guy, I was Norton all the way…I’ve sworn off it for PC work after it brought several systems to their knees.
I use Panda Titanium on my production machines…I haven’t upgraded to the new “Panda security” just yet so I don’t have any experience to report on how that works with all these other media apps.
dabear made several moves here…recently upgraded to CS3 (added resource drain from CS2) and recently went HDV (FAR more processor intense than DV)…so even if Norton was not affecting the machine when you were doing DV, it very well could be a problem for editing HDV.
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Thanks all,
Very much appreciated. Will try to kill Norton and see how things improve.
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My Editing Pc has not any antivirus or anything. Not connected to internet either. It’s a HP dual core Athlon 4200 processor, 1.5 ram and 250g HD and a nvidia GS 7100 video card and also show same behavior as you describe.
It show an annoying jittering when watching the timeline playback through the video card TV out. If I stop the PB and start again it stop this for a minute or so but start again.
This is just playing a miniDV SD capture. Can’t imagine in HD!Was thinking to upgrade to a quad-core processors but maybe this is not the cure to the problem.
Any clue?
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