[Marcie Montgomery]

The original source was a DVD. I imported it directly into Vegas and the only editing I did was to trim it to shorten it. I never had this problem on my old system which was only about a 1/3 as powerful.

[Marcie Montgomery]

Not sure about the bit rate. I’m just trying to do an AVI file or WMV file to play back on the computer for our board. I have used Vegas alot on my old system, but I’m not a tech guru, so I think there something else I’m missing. WhenI had this problem on my old system it was the hardware acceleration. But I can’t change that on my new system.

[Marcie Montgomery]

It plays fine in the preview window, it plays fine in video players before I edit it, it only plays poorly after I render the changes. By choppy, I mean it plays and hesitates for a second, plays a few moments more, hesitates again. It doesn’t do this anywhere else.

Not sure what you mean by template, but the best rendering I’ve found so far is with these settings – type is NTSC DV Widescreen with these settings: Widescreen NTSC DV video files compatible with Sony Video Capture.
OpenDML compatible.
Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM
Video: 29.970 fps, 720×480 Lower field first, NTSC DV Wide
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.212

I’ve used Vegas for years, but with the new system and not being able to change the hardware acceleration (this is what has fixes this problem in the past), I just don’t know how to make it flow properly.