Problem with audio in SpeedEdit

[bobkat2000]

Audio stutters....what is happening?

[inquisitive]

In order for people to help, you will need to provide more information. What system you are using, what type of video / audio you are using, what are you doing etc.

[bobkat2000]

Using dual quads on a Boxx with 8 G ram, plenty power. Win XP Pro 64 bit.
HDV video and the audio stutters.
What do I do?

[CreatvGnius]

Using dual quads on a Boxx with 8 G ram, plenty power. Win XP Pro 64 bit.
HDV video and the audio stutters.
What do I do?

:dito: Please let us know just what you're doing with the HDV video, when you encounter that stutter issue.

You're not explaining whether you're in CAPTURE mode, or playing back already-captured HDV on the timeline/storyboard interface, or what-have-you.

So, what's the specific details of your situation, guy?
-PeterG

[ted]

A system like that shouldn't have ANY problems playing a few streams of video. There are either more details missing, or you have something wrong with your system.

We've got a dual dual core with 4 gig ram on Win XP 32. We have had a couple hundred 1080 HD clips with no stutter as well as our normal workload with 10-20 clips with dozens of animated overlays all turned to HQ-SS and it plays without stutter.

[KiloWatkins]

Dual monitors Ted? Once rendered to HQ is more or less in resources. iow, 1080i HDV from camera, can playback without stutters A/V, on a 3.8AMD and GPU in singel monitor mode with ForceRender. Preference settings can be used to help, mainly where Cache is going but also with GPU settings. If a redbar, BackGround render is going on, everything stutters.

GoodLuck

[bobkat2000]

I'm playing back HDV that is already captured.
It plays fine in Vegas and PremierPro CS3 but
it stutters in SpeedEdit.

[KiloWatkins]

You do have a nice PC, but the stutters are from how SE1.x needs to prep the clip for editing. Sometimes it is faster to just rt.clk. in the file bin and render to a Newtek codec, from some camera source's. You have to watch the red BackGroundRender bar, bottom right under the TC and above the radio buttons, is finished, or when the clip plays to that point, stuttering will occur. When you start play, BGrender pauses.

Where are you sending SE Prefs Cache file? Depending on the length of the clip, your system should zoom the BG render line. But again, the file data/format can be a big part of the problem. Oh, you do have a sound card and not using on board audio, correct?

As for your other programs, how long have they been developing their programs? SE is the babe in the woods of NLE's, but also what Newtek users have had on their wish list for 7-8 years or more. It is also growing up as fast as the NT Team can find/fix things.

TakeCare

[bobkat2000]

The only way i could get it to not stutter is to render the clip in SE.
then it appeared fine.

Then, would you believe, I reinstalled SE and it all seemed to work fine.

Oh well, now I have to figure out why the image stabilzation turns my video green.

Another few hours of messing with this SE junk, I'm going back to Sony Vegas.....for good.......

[ted]

Hang in there Bobcat. Like you found, many of the problems are computer or user related. SE is too good of a tool to totally ditch.

[KiloWatkins]

Oh well, now I have to figure out why the image stabilzation turns my video green.

That is a new one. The raw file or the rendered file? Again, where are you sending Cache in Prefs?

[Mike Watkins]

I'm playing back HDV that is already captured.
It plays fine in Vegas and PremierPro CS3 but
it stutters in SpeedEdit.

Vegas and Premiere Pro will drop video frames in order to keep up with playback. SpeedEDIT tries to play everything in real time. Try to reduce the size of the output window and/or use backround rendering which can be found in preferences.

[bobkat2000]

SpeedEDIT plays back fine.
Even when the audio stutters, that can be fixed by rendering it again in SpeedEdit.
Now, please tell me why the video turms green in the image stabilization window and nothing happens.
Would appreciate it.

[SBowie]

Audio may stutter before video 'conforms', which - while it only happens once - can take quite some time for a longer file. No idea on the latter issue.

[bobkat2000]

Talked to a SpeedEDIT tech man about the stabilization turniing the video green.

He told me that they had this happen before and there was no fix for it.

No fix for it? Gee, that means the software doesn't work.

Oh well, back to Vegas, Final Cut Pro and PremierProCS3.

And I was just about to buy another copy of SpeedEDIT for my laptop.

Whew! Saved by an honest tech support person. They're harder to find than honest politicians.

Might try SpeedEDIT again in a few years......when it works.

[SBowie]

Oh, please. Sounds like maybe you found a bug (I really doubt it's the only one, either.) Vegas, FCP and Premiere don't have any, I guess. See you in 2009.:sleeping:

[ted]

Might try SpeedEDIT again in a few years......when it works.

Bobcat, not trying to diss ya, but with all due respect, I've visited the forums of the systems that you imply are perfect. I also know users of those tools.
They all have bugs AND shortcomings listed by their own users.

We wasted a couple days just trying to salvage Adobe Creative Suite after downloading thier updates. I had two different Adobe techs tell me not to use their updater because it doesn't work and never has. WTF? Yeh, that's the tech guys talking. How can the updater corrupt the entire suite?

But if you want to go, you keep saying you are, see ya! :bowdown: