[Josh Aderhold]

So I am using Quicktime version 7.1.6. I’ve updated my video card driver. I turned off any system monitoring, file indexing, system restore, automatic updates, virus software, all start up programs, all services, adjusted processor scheduling, adjusted memory usage, increased the size of my paging file, turned off my paging file, turned off my screen saver, and eliminated all appearance settings for XP.

Still stutters.

So, because doing all this is absolutely ridiculous just to get a program to do what its supposed to do, I’ve officially given up. As much as I would like to use Avid, it obviously doesn’t want me using it. So I vow to never edit on a PC again. I’m buying a Mac, and I’m buying Final Cut Pro.

Thanks for the suggestions and being the only person to reply to my post =) I truly do appreciate it, but I’ve reached the end of my Avid rope.

[Josh Aderhold]

Thanks for the reply Michael,

My internal is a SATA 7200 RPM. Power is set to always.

I am currently not at my editing machine, so I will have to check everything else. I did downgrade my quicktime, to what version I can’t remember at the moment. I will check this tonight when I return home. But until then, do you have any other minor suggestions that I might be missing? It really just looks like an interference or conflict with Avid, so if there are any other things you can think of that could cause that, please let me know. I know it has something to do with Avid since I have used windows movie maker and Adobe Premeir with no problems.

I will get back to you on all the things you suggested and let you know how that affects it. If there is anything else you can think of to turn off, please let me know.

Could the cluster (forgive the incorrect term? possibly?) or byte size of the drive have anything to do with it? When I formatted my drive I think I set it to default.

Thanks for the reply, look forward to more suggestions. I’ll let you know the status of my problem as soon as I can get to it.

~J