It takes 1 minute to mark an In point?

[Vince Becquiot]

10 seconds a cut and I’d have check pricing for new windows…

Not really sure what to tell you other than that, maybe importing into a new project to clear things up.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[David Dobson]

Import the project into a New Project? Interesting – I might have to try that – though I bet it will have to re-index my 500+GB of HDV files…

[Vince Becquiot]

I’m afraid so, probably not worth the extra time, unless you are early in the edit.

And you have nothing rendered on the timeline at this point?

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[David Dobson]

Nothing rendered on the timeline.

It might be worthy to note (ha! I actually only just considered this) that I replaced the motherboard on this system last week – from an old buggy Biostar to a newer Asus – and I might have the SATA drives set up as IDE drives (I tried setting the SATA to ACHI, or whatever – but then the BIOS didn’t find my c: drive at all.)

But maybe just the changed system is messing up the program. I should try another project and see if I get the same problems. Might I have to re-install CS4 to get it to fully recognize the new hardware?

[Vince Becquiot]

Actually, you will probably have to reinstall the OS as well.

That means the SATA drivers are not installed. Basically, you need to enable the SATA setting in the BIOS before install.

If you are running XP, take a deep breath…

During install, (hit F6 I think) tell XP to find the drivers you found somewhere on the Intel website (man it’s been too long) that you carefully stored on that floppy disk (you do have a floppy drive right, like most of us ?) Yikes…

Well there are other ways, hope you are on the techie side.

https://jcalcote.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/installing-windows-xp-on-a-sata-drive/

https://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=414

Now if you have Vista, that should be a bit easier, the drivers should install automatically, but you need to enable the setting in the BIOS prior to installing Vista.

Have another cup of that French roast…

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[David Dobson]

Floppy Drive? I haven’t had one of those in years. But the drivers are on the DVDRom that came with the Motherboard.

I’ll limp though this and save the re-installs for a later date. Might even just buckle under and get Vista. I guess I never had true SATA with my old motherboard either – though it seemed like they were going fast enough.

Thanks for your help.

[David Dobson]

Holy Creative Cow, batman, this actually worked.
No more lag time when marking Ins and Outs on the source side and the project seems to load 300 times faster. What’s up with that??!!!??!

[John Frey]

I have built (3)dual boot PCs over the past year – XP and Vista. Except for a couple of older programs, everything runs faster in Vista. We installed either Core 2 Duo or Quad procs and 8 GB of Ram. In fact, Vista has been solid (once SP1 was released). We upgraded to the 64bit release when it became available. I am editing an AVCHD project with heavy effects, and CS4 has worked really well.

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore