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firewire output to monitor
I have PP 2.0, and have a camera connected via firewire, then the camera is connected to a monitor via s-video. The problem I am having is when I play video in the preview monitor, the video on the big monitor is real sharp. When I play video via the timeline, the picture goes soft on the big monitor. I have dv video in a 720X486 uncompressed timeline.
Thanks
Kevin -
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Not exactly sure what’s going on but sometimes when I have the program side set to “fit” this happens to me or when the timeline hasn’t been rendered. I’m sure you’ve tried all of that.
cheers,
Paul -
I have tried rendering, it doesn’t seem to make a difference. I have also noticed on playback that the video will slow down then catch up on the monitor. So I am wondering if it is a hardware thing. Anyone have any suggestions on making PP work faster? I have 2.6 ghz processor with hyperthreading and a gig of ram, my video card has 128 mg on it. Should I upgrade my video card or get a card for PP like Matrox has?
Thanks again.
Kevin -
I’ve found there are many things that can slow you down. Are your movie files on the same drive as the application? If so move the movie files to another internal drive. You probably have 7200rpm internal drives… I don’t know how much this helps but I have 10K rpm scsi drives and that seems to help. More RAM definitely.. I know photoshop is happy with 2 GB but if you open more than one application at a time when PP 2.0 is open then could cause a huge slow down. Think about turning off the option under playback that plays back audio and video on the desktop while playing on an extenal DV device.. pick one and turn off the other to see if that speeds up rendering. Is your video card PCI, AGP or PCIe ? I’m guessing agp.. is it a high end card? Do you have the latest drivers from ATI or nVidia? If not go there and get them now. Seriously think about upgrading the video card. Adobe applications love RAM…. they eat it like cookies…
Anyway, I’m sure a couple of these things would speed things up in lieu of getting a new machine…. also please understand they are general recommendations and come from my experience and what I have learned from the cow and working with this stuff for the past few years.
One last thing.. think about backing all of your stuff up on DVD or what have you DV tape and doing a fresh install of Windows XP Pro SP2 and then reinstall your software. Depending on how long it has been since you’ve had a fresh install things could be getting a little cluttered.
good luck.
Paul
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