Faulty Video

[Jon Zanone]

What version software are you using? What CPU, how much memory, what video card… All are important in tracking this down. I seem to recall this was a green/blue dot issue from AXP 3.5 days, but without system specs it’s hard to know!

Jon

[Jon Zanone]

From a post over at the Avid Forums…

Thanks to camoscato for the post and knowledge…

This is from the Avid online help….

Understanding Real-Time Playback Information in the Timeline
When your Avid editing application is unable to maintain real-time playback of an effects sequence, colored bars appear in the timecode track of the Timeline when playback ends.
These bars provide you with information about the difficulties the Avid editing application had during playback. You can use this information to help you render only those parts of the sequence necessary to achieve real-time playback.
Red bars mark the ranges where the Avid editing application was unable to display frames.

The ranges marked by red bars are ranges that the Avid editing application recommends for rendering to achieve successful real-time playback. If you mark IN and OUT points around these ranges, use the ExpertRender In/Out command, and then render the recommended ranges, the application will be able to preview your material successfully in real time. For more information, see ExpertRender.

Yellow bars mark the ranges that caused difficulty for the Avid editing application during playback because of processor limitations. No frames were dropped; this is only a warning.

Blue bars mark the location of frames that caused difficulty for the Avid editing application because of disk speed limitations. No frames were dropped; this is only a warning.

If you find that your playback information often includes blue bars, it is likely that replacing your media disks with faster drives will improve the Avid editing application’s ability to play back effects in real time.