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Avid Xpress Pro Choppy Video
Hey guys,
I am new to avid editing. (I’ve been using final cut for years, but have recently enrolled in classes for avid) When I try to preview my edit, the video is incredibly choppy, as if i didnt have enough ram (Im running a gig of ram with a 128mb radeon graphics card.) Any ideas? thanks alot.
Jon
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6 Replies
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Do you have any windows touching your source or record monitors? That’ll do it….
Jon
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You may want to switch to an nVidia Quadro card if you can afford one. Avid doesn’t recognize the ATI hardware and switches to software mode for OpenGL effects and some realtime effects.
Go the Avid site for approved video card hardware:
https://www.avid.com/products/xpressprohd/specs.asp#pc
Lance Bachelder
Southern California
Cow Forum Host- Magic BulletApple Dual 2Ghz G5 ATIx800, 2.5GB RAM, OSX Tiger FCP Studio
Intel P4, 2GB RAM, PNY 6600GT XP Pro – Vegas 6 Studio -
The choppy video would be most likely a result of hard drives.
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Yeah – I wasn’t saying the ATI card was the culprit – only saying it was a weak link in the chain. Stick with nVidia products for Avid on PC.
Lance Bachelder
Southern California
Cow Forum Host- Magic BulletApple Dual 2Ghz G5 ATIx800, 2.5GB RAM, OSX Tiger FCP Studio
Intel P4, 2GB RAM, PNY 6600GT XP Pro – Vegas 6 Studio -
So if it might be a hard drive problem…how do i fix it?
Thanks.
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It’s really not enough info regarding your system specs to make a good sound decision. What kind of drives are they? Are they 7200rpm, 8meg cache, etc? External or internal? CPU, memory, motherboard. firewire card? Mojo or no Mojo?
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