Edius 4.5 is skipping occasionally

[antonsvideo]

can you make sure drive indexing is off for the video drive and all its folders

this is found in drive properties

is the stutter a visual and audible stutter? or visual only? or audible only?

[Philip]

can you make sure drive indexing is off for the video drive and all its folders

this is found in drive properties

is the stutter a visual and audible stutter? or visual only? or audible only?

I turned off indexing on the drives. I did this by right clicking on the drive in Explorer. On the bottom of the window was an indexing check box. I unchecked it. Tried it my project out and it still stutters. Do I need to reboot after the indexing file changes. I tried before a reboot and after a reboot. Still stuttering.

When it stutters it is an audio only stutter best I can tell. When I notice it I don't see the video on the overlay doing anything unusual but I hear the stutter. Video and audio do stay in sync though. When it stutters the video does slow and skip in time with the stuttering music. My interpretation is it is an audio only stutter though. Occasionally it will stutter as soon as I hit the spacebar to playback. Most of the time it starts playback right away.

[antonsvideo]

for testing purposes, disable auto save in edius settings

start playback by pushing shift+spacebar

[antonsvideo]

if the above still fails, try this:

turn off PC audio by lowering volume all the way

connect via firewire to an external device such as a camera and listen to the sound from the camera while playing, do you hear any stutter?

[Philip]

if the above still fails, try this:

turn off PC audio by lowering volume all the way

connect via firewire to an external device such as a camera and listen to the sound from the camera while playing, do you hear any stutter?

OK...that was interesting....I changed the project to an SD Wide Screen project, plugged my camera in via FW. I started the playback from the timeline. Everything was playing along fine and then a blue screen on the camera. I quick looked up and could see the video was in going slower so I assume it was skipping at that point.

[antonsvideo]

can you go to edius settings and make sure stop playback on frame drop is ticked

meanwhile, I will read up on your mobo bios settings if I can find them on the net

[Philip]

can you go to edius settings and make sure stop playback on frame drop is ticked

meanwhile, I will read up on your mobo bios settings if I can find them on the net

Here is a page to the manual. I have tried the stop on frame drop turned on and it will stutter but not stop. I will test again though.

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5E-VM%20DO

[antonsvideo]

ok, that mobo has an onboard grahics card, are you using that or are you using a card in one of the slots?

[antonsvideo]

also, what memory did you install and which slots, A1, A2 or B1, B2
Memory must consist of matched pairs non ECC DDR2

[Philip]

ok, that mobo has an onboard grahics card, are you using that or are you using a card in one of the slots?

I am not using onboard graphics. I have a GeForce 8500GT installed. I saw where the 8800GT was not a good one so I avoided it. :-) I do have a KVM switch installed so I can use one keyboard, mouse and monitor on 2 systems. I tried plugging directly into this computer and it didn't change anything.

Should I try running with the onboard video and see if the video card could be causing a conflict?

Almost forgot. I have the memory in slot A1 and B1. I put it in the slots with matching colors.

[antonsvideo]

no, don't use the onboard video but make sure all onboard video settings are disabled in Bios

advanced screen Northbridge config, Internal graphic mode select, set to disabled

I am also looking for jumpers, back soon

[Philip]

also, what memory did you install and which slots, A1, A2 or B1, B2
Memory must consist of matched pairs non ECC DDR2

I installed this memory. I believe it specs out as you said is needed.

https://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA22962

I did notice in the specs of the memory that when running at 800mhz it requires 2.0v of power. WHen I installed the memory it was recognized at 667mhz memory. I used the bios to set it to 800 mhz (I have tried at default 667 and it still stutters.). The DRAM voltage is set to auto. Should I assume that it is pumping 2.0V for DRAM since I have set it to 800hmz or should I manually set it to 2.0V. The specs also say the 800hmz setting can run at 4,4,4,12. Right now I have it at the default 5,5,5,15. It is running at 800mhz though.

Philip

[antonsvideo]

make sure the memory sticks are in A1 and A2

reload bios defaults

now disable onboard graphics in advanced options, then save settings and exit, then try again

[Philip]

make sure the memory sticks are in A1 and A2

reload bios defaults

now disable onboard graphics in advanced options, then save settings and exit, then try again

I thought the memory had to be in A1 and B1 to take advantage of the dual channel....I figured that was why they were color coded.

I loaded the defaults. The only thing I need to change from default is the front audio port has to be changed to AC97 from HD audio so I can use my headphones. Otherwise everything is default.

I fired up Edius, switched my project settings back to HDV and started playing the timeline....still stuttering after about a minute or so.

[Philip]

In case you wanted to hear a clip of the stuttering audio here is a short playback I recorded from the headphones.

https://www.frogmanproductions.com/uploads/STE-003.mp3

It stutters about 13 seconds into the file. I couldn't get a clean feed off the headphone just so I just stuck my recorder between the 2 earpieces of the headphones...that's the funny sounds at the beginning.