Major Editing Problems

[GrassValley_BH]

Any diagnostics that run in Windows can't do a thorough job of memory testing.

Use MemTest86+ instead.

[swsw1550]

Try removing the ram for a few seconds, you could also try clearing the CMOS on the mother board, if you have got windows up and running do a disk check on the next reboot, you could have bad or dead sectors in the drive,


Steve

[hdvideo]

I ran the test and it went through 5 passes successfully.

[antonsvideo]

do you have unusual files in your project such as mpeg video, mpeg audio, ac3 audio, windows media files etc? all these can cause this exact slowness

[hdvideo]

No.

I am editing HDV files in and HDV project. Everthing is set up exactly the way things have always been.

It seems like its getting worse and worse.

Brent

[antonsvideo]

can you run diskspeed.exe and test the C drive and video drive and report back your finding

diskspeed.exe is free at http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=13

[hdvideo]

I have done as you asked and here are the results. I only recorded the top four results not the ones for every sector. (Did you want those too?)

Drive C (O/S Drive)
Access Time: 13.53ms Cached Speed: 153.37mb/sec
Max read: 56.00mb/sec Overall Score: 513.2


Drive D (Video Storage A) Internal IDE

Access Time: 20.33ms Cached Speed: 192.34mb/sec
Max read: 58.02mb/sec Overall Score: 381.4


Drive E (Video Storage B) Internal IDE

Access Time: 13.58ms Cached Speed: 179.25mb/sec
Max read: 53.96mb/sec Overall Score: 483.1


Drive I (Video Storage C) External ESata
Access Time: 12.37ms Cached Speed: 131.77mb/sec
Max read: 106.05mb/sec Overall Score: 817.1

[swsw1550]

They look fine to me, read speeds a bit slow but they are IDE drives,


Steve

[Khoi Pham]

Can you try to open a brand new project and add a few clips and do your transitions and see if it still take a long time if not then it is not the computer.
With the new project import the sequence of the original project over and see if this new project would fix the problem.

[hdvideo]

So what do i do now?

I have ran just about every utility and no errors and edius just wont work right. It takes two hours to do 10 minutes worth of work.

Do i need a faster processor for Edius 4 than i needed in Edius 3?


Here is what i have:

2Gig Ram, Tyan Mother board S2676, WinXP Pro, NVIDIA Geforce 6600, Edius 4.6, 2 3.2 Gig processors.

[hdvideo]

Can you try to open a brand new project and add a few clips and do your transitions and see if it still take a long time if not then it is not the computer.
With the new project import the sequence of the original project over and see if this new project would fix the problem.

Khoi Hi,

I have done this and it has worked. With this particular project i have done it 4 times. It starts out great but after about 10 minutes of editing it starts to delay again. I have not tried this since I reformatted though.

Brent

[Khoi Pham]

Well if you want to try something else, convert all clips to HQ AVI and not use any HDV clips on the timeline, that should speed up editing process, you might not be able to play them realtime because your hard drive is slow but atleast it will not tax your system CPU like HDV clips would.
Or if you need to get this project out now, go ahead and open new project when things start to slow down again and keep working it that way until you finish this project to meet your deadline and have more time to figured out why.

[hdvideo]

Sorry I did not specify what I was using before. I am using HQ AVI clips

Brent

[GrassValley_BH]

Try starting a new project, play with it a bit. If things are working OK in the new project, try Importing the problem project into the new project - import the sequence(s).

[antonsvideo]

I have done as you asked and here are the results. I only recorded the top four results not the ones for every sector. (Did you want those too?)

Drive C (O/S Drive)
Access Time: 13.53ms Cached Speed: 153.37mb/sec
Max read: 56.00mb/sec Overall Score: 513.2


Drive D (Video Storage A) Internal IDE

Access Time: 20.33ms Cached Speed: 192.34mb/sec
Max read: 58.02mb/sec Overall Score: 381.4


Drive E (Video Storage B) Internal IDE

Access Time: 13.58ms Cached Speed: 179.25mb/sec
Max read: 53.96mb/sec Overall Score: 483.1


Drive I (Video Storage C) External ESata
Access Time: 12.37ms Cached Speed: 131.77mb/sec
Max read: 106.05mb/sec Overall Score: 817.1

can you copy the troublesome project to the ESata drive and try again