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preview smooth for videos, slow for pictures!
Greetings everyone!
I suppose there must be tons of threads on the issue of slow preview, but my case may be different (or not, but bear with me, newbie here!).
I’m working on a project that involves both videos and pictures. The videos are HD, MOVs that may be more than 1 Gb, while the pictures were taken by a 200 euro camera and are simple JPEGs, of 5 Mb tops. Now, I would expect the preview to be lagging in videos and flowing smoothly in the picture parts, right? Well, the opposite happens. The preview is smooth on the videos (mind you, it has some keyframing too, but no sweat on best/full) but the pictures are lagging like crazy in draft/quarter. Funny huh? Or not maybe? (newbie here…)I run the Vegas 11 (build 701) 64 bit version, and windows 7 64bit
The OS is in the ssd, as well as the project.System specifications are as follows:
Processor
Intel Core i7 2600 (s1155, 3,40 GHz, 8 MB)Motherboard
Gigabyte P67A D3 B3 (s1155, P67, DDR3)Memory
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3-1600 KitSSD
OCZ Agility 3 Series 120 GB SSD (2.5΄΄, Sata 6 Gb/s AGT3-25SAT3-120G)Graphics Card
MSI GTX 560 Ti Hawk (PCI-Express, GDDR5, 1GB)I have also attached an image of the project properties, which hopefully uploaded successfully.
If any further info is required please tell me.
Thanks in advance.
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4 Replies
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Your HD footage might be 1920×1080, but your 5 MB jpg could be 2560×1920 (that’s what my Olympus point-n-shoot takes). If you have several images with Track Motion and/or Pan/Crop keyframes, especially with 3D motion, that is a huge processor strain.
Make copies of your images. As a rule, use images 2x (or less) of your target resolution. If you don’t plan on zooming in on an image, you can resize it down to 1440×1080 (source image aspect ratio 4:3) or 1620×1080 (source 3:2).
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Tyson have given you the exact solution and reason why you
are having this issue. You need to reduce the file size/resolution
of your images in an image editing software before.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
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That’s right! Many pics are something like 3500×2800 or something.Should I save them with a lower analysis? Wouldn’t that compromise the quality though? I wouldn’t want to do that just for the sake of the preview. Or doesn’t it really matter?
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Just Reduce them to about 1920×1536 etc, no need to be
concerned about quality loss.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956
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