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Total Training AE7 Professional very slow
My apologies if this is not the appropriate place to post this question, but I haven’t been able to find any info on this…
I recently got the new Total Training for AE7 Professional Features DVD set from TT. Now, I understand why they switched from DVD VIdeo to DVDROM, but the application to play the movies appears to be quite the resource hog. On my Dual 2.0 G5 (not the fastest machine anymore, I know, but still pretty good) I have a very hard time following along because AE slows to a crawl when the TT app is running. A look at activity monitor says that the TT app is using 80% (of 200%) of the processor. Especially with the 3D camera and lighting sections, it is almost impossible to follow along, as AE slows down and I eventually get the spinning beach ball while both apps struggle to catch up – in the process I lose a few seconds of the video.
Am I doing somehting wrong, or is this just the way it is? ANything I can try? I get the same reading in Activity monitor when in full screen, half screen and when the video is paused (in TT app).
Thanks,
ScottieB
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5 Replies
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I have the previous version of Total Training, which a resource hog as well. And yes if you run it AE on the same CPU you might run into problems.
Time for tht new G5 🙂
Vince
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I think that in the “read me” that it says that there might be an issue on certain machines using the TT material AND the application at the same time. I have tried running both on my dual 3.6 Xeon with a lag that is a surprise to me…but even the fastest have faults.
Michael Munkittrick
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OK – thanks for the info…
But it seems like a fault in the application – not the machine. An app that just plays movies shouldn’t take that much CPU should it? Especially if it is designed so that you can follow along with the training. I guess it has to do with the HD video, but still – it makes following along with certain sections pretty much impossible.
Thanks for the replies.
S.
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I agree with you. I don’t know about you, but if you start following the tutorials with AE open, it starts “drifting”. Actually, if you try to do anything intensive, you can notice the audio drifts from the video. But, if you stop and play again…it works! It’s a real pain and I am seriously dissapointed with this “flaw”
Aanarav Sareen
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The older DVD format was fine, the HD movies only play on a computer now and appear to be hosted in a Director file.
Director is notorious for not playing well with large format Quicktime files, which these HD movies actually are as H264 Quicktimes.
I’ve been buying TT products since they were on VHS but this new series seriously sucks. I won’t be buying any more training in this format.
The resolution increase to HD is not worth the performance hit, I have a G5 Quad with 4 GB of RAM and an Athlon 64 X2, both run these disks poorly when anything else is running.
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