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Vegas now runs jerky
Hi All:
I bought Vegas Pro last December to work on a project shot from my Canon HD but the MTS files choked it so I bought a new laptop as well (Core 2/Vista64) and it worked fine. I finished the project in January and there were no problems as far as the new laptop went. I also had the media on an external drive. I have the fundamentals covered fine.
Since then I’ve installed various programs and when I tried to edit video, the video now runs is jerky (changing about once every 3 seconds). I’ve tried different settings and cleared out background services selectively. I also booted up in safe mode and it worked fine except for the lo res video driver loading of course 640×800) – yikes!
I’m not sure what I should do. My C drive still has about 20 to 30% open and i use media from an external drive. I’ve defragged – all that stuff. The media files from the project that worked are as jerky as the new media.
I’m just wondering how to troubleshoot this. I’ve put off troubleshooting this as I haven’t had the time but there are a number of video projects I NEED to jump on now for my own marketing! I also have clients that are wanting video soon – the video project I worked on has been getting some accolades up here in the NorthWest.
Would a reinstall of Vegas do anything? I’m just thinking there is some background service or other app running that is messing it up. Is there a program out there that allows you to turn them off selectively in real time or just see which app or service might be the culprit? I didn’t install any games or anything other than the standard MS OFFICE apps, browsers, media and web programs. Any other ideas? 🙂
THX for the advice! mj
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> Since then I’ve installed various programs and when I tried to edit video, the video now runs is jerky
So your computer worked fine… then you installed some programs and now it doesn’t work. Yup, chances are, one of those programs is causing the problem.
> Is there a program out there that allows you to turn them off selectively in real time or just see which app or service might be the culprit?
Yes, run MSCONFIG. It will let you selectively turn off startup programs and services. There is an option to hide all Microsoft Services so that you can see just what was been added to Windows.
I would start with the startup programs. Turn them all off and reboot. Then see if playback is smooth then turn them on one by one and see which one is the culprit.
If the startup program don’t solve it then turn off all of the non-Microsoft services and do the same.
Here is an old programmer trick. After you have turned them all off, instead of turning them on one-by-one (which could take a log time) turn half of them on. If it still works the culprit is in the other half. If not, it’s in the first half. Turn half of those on, etc. It will only take a few times to narrow the search down to the offending program because you are eliminating half each time. (in programming this is called a binary search)
Good Luck!
~jr
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