WTF It was Working Yesterday Fine!!!

[reelmoments]

ARGHHH Damn disk to slow - HELP!!! Got a dell laptop running edius 4.5 - (my main system running 5.12 wouldnt capture HDV anymore kept giving me demn disk to slow) so I used my laptop and didnt have a problem now all of the sudden playback is choppy and it's giving me the same damn issue---so now i cant capture hdv---tried everything it says in the sticky---tried closing out programs that i have no idea what they do!!! - what would cause a program that was working PERFECTLY one day----with NO changes made to the system - cause it NOT to work the next day!!!----ARGH!!!!

[iibw]

Does your project setting match your camera's?
1440x1080?

[reelmoments]

Does your project setting match your camera's?
1440x1080?

yep one of the first things i checked - and tried both P and I settings on the project and the [email protected]

[SRsupport]

Is your antivirus on?

[Paranova Films]

or your audio mixer open?

[reelmoments]

anti virus off, audio mixer closed!

[antonsvideo]

which deck are you capturing from?

are you capturing to 1440x1080i Canopus HQ or native m2ts?

[antonsvideo]

wait.....does the audio mixer really slow down the playback??? i always have it up!

when the audio mixer is open, you will see that the buffer on your status bar is always empty, so you may get stutter or playback stopped during transitions etc, especially in HD projects

[SoundFreak]

wait.....does the audio mixer really slow down the playback??? i always have it up!

the audio mixer open is worse then multiple realtime virus scans at the sane time :)
Even on a monster CPU system you have about 3 frames left of the buffer, not that great but often enough to play through a simple edit timeline.
This has been discused over & over on this forum, even more than 3D pip issue.

[GrassValley_BH]

The audio mixer performance is by design. If the audio mixer used the buffer, you'd be applying delayed changes, which would be like singing along with an echo instead of the leader.

[SRsupport]

It is also in the manual IIRC. I think there have been many threads on this explaining why it works this way. If you need audio meters use the ctr + g dispay.

[reelmoments]

which deck are you capturing from?

are you capturing to 1440x1080i Canopus HQ or native m2ts?

Im using a Sony HCR3 Camcorder as a deck - have Done 1000's of tapes this way with no issues--all of the sudden it stoped working on my main system - but worked no problem on my laptop---now it;s not working on the laptop system - tried changing to my z7 and even tried a new firewire cable---nadda---the playback is simply choppy (where it used to play smoothe) - i tried capturing in pp - and had no problems---so something is now causing a bottleneck in edius and i would love to know what!!!!

I'm capturing to canopus hq - seems to work the best in editing where-as m2p uses way to much resources and is Choppy!

[SRsupport]

How is your deck connected to your main system?

[reelmoments]

Firewire 400---on the main it is 6 pin to 4 - on the laptop it is 4 - lemme reiterate both systems worked fine----then something changed---i have not updated or added new software----windows might have been updated here and there ---so that might be the issue - but the laptop system worked PERFECTLY for like 6 months - now all of the sudden!!!! (windows xp pro)

[reelmoments]

So here is an oddity-i noticed that my batttery power on the laptop was only 43% - even though it was plugged in over nite---so i re-seated the battery--it then charged to 100% and wouldnt you know the damn thing is capturing perfectly again-------odd!