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Topic: 5.0 Rev. 4 Video Transitions slow

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I just installed Rev. 4 and went to test everything and the video transitions are extremely slow and choppy. Non of my video files have BPM's or have been analized since 4.3 and they were all lost in 5,o and I havn't scanned them again yet. I loaded 2 decks which scans the files as they load. I set the video transitions to random and just kept cross fading the video back and forth going through the various transitions. The transitions were slow and a little choppy if both decks are playing. If I stop one deck then everything works quick and smooth, but both decks are playing when you do a transition. This didn't happen in 4.3. Is there any setting which will fix this?
 
Inviato Sat 20 Oct 07 @ 12:55 am
 
D-Twizzle, if you have bought the program, please enter your serial.
Otherwise, you are using a crack, since latest demo version is still Ver 5.0 ;)
Hope to see you soon as a Pro.
 
I am a registered user and I bought the program. I'm still having the same issue in 5.5. Transitions slow and choppy. Anyone out there have a similar issue and solution. I have a huge corporate event tomorrow for JP Morgan and the way it behaves now isn't going to cut it.
 
maybe rev 6 will fix your problem.
 
installed 5 Rev 6 and no change. Video plays smooth if only 1 is playing. Play deck 2 and the first video on the screen gets choppy. Also, video transitions lag and are choppy. Not as bad when I use Mpeg 1 files, but most of my files (90%) are .VOB to retain the highest quality.
My machine is a Alienware Pentium 4 3.2 gig processor with 1 Gig of ram and a Ati Mobility Radoen 9600 Video card with 128 megs of ram.
Does VDJ access the video card for video playback and transitions or does it access the main memory and CPU? If it's the video card, then maybe there is an issue with VDJ and that card? Maybe I don't have enough memory on the video card or the main memory on the motherboard? (1 Gig should be enough though I would think). I really need help here guys. I had a disaster job tonight and it was a big one. The system crashed 4 times in the middle of my sets. Video's were choppy and transitions painful. Nothing was smooth unless I had only 1 video playing. As soon as I would start the next video to mix into it, the first video got choppy and the transitions sucked. The worst part was the crashes. It seemed like my machine was struggling to keep up with the videos. CPU meter was 75 to 90% on loading of Vob files. After load the meter went down.
I have absolutely no prolems when mixing MP3's. It's only video's, but I'm ding more and more VJ jobs and I have to work this out.
 
Anyone? I can't find a solution, but I'm not that computer savey. Anyone else encountered this and resolved?
 
Sorry you are having so much trouble, but if 4.3 was working for you, why didn't you use it for your gig? I have a problem when a DJ uses anything that does not work, on a client. It's one thing to have something go wrong, and another to use something you know is faulty. Now to your problem. XP or Vista? You said 4.3 worked well, so what have you changed since then? Is everything up to date, including direct x, and all drivers? What sound card are you using? What are the performance settings in VDJ? Hopefully, your answers will give us a better insight to your issue.
 
Using Windows XP Professional. Using Gigaport AG-1 usb external sound card. I havn't changed anything since 4.3. I have video hardware acceleration enabled as well as Decode while hidden. My machine has been optimized with all scrrensavers, sounds, power management and extraneous windows aspects disabled. The machine never hooks up to the internet in order to avoid viruses, trojans, etc..
My desktop computer is not as fast as my laptop. It is a pentium 3 1.gig processor with 2 gigs of ram, but it plays VOB files pretty well with little to no stutter when both decks are playing or when transitions are used. I'm wondering if it would help if my laptop had more memory like 2 gig's instead of 1. Buit looking at the specs on my laptop, shouldn't it be powerful enogh to handle mixing vob files?
Also, maybe the video card could be causing the problem? Doe's VDJ utilize the video card or main computer CPU and memory to process video?
 
I have been dealing with my own issues, but have not forgotten you. I have a mobile gig this weekend, and am under the gun to fix my gig machine. If you have a gig this weekend, can you reinstall 4.3, to see if that works? You said that it was working before. You have nothing to lose, since 5.6 is not working. I have not had any issues installing over previous versions, but some have had better results uninstalling, and installing full versions. If 4.3 works for you, I might try 5.6 as a full install. Make sure you save a copy of 4.3.
 
I had another thought. All my drives are Western Digital My Book 500 and 1 TB external drives. They all come formated as Fat32 from the factory so that they are also compatible with Mac's. If I reformated them to NTSF, could that possible help? What are your drives formated as?
 
NTSF, but I don't know if that is an issue, since the video is loaded into ram. It is not playing from the drive. The reason I asked you to go back, is because you said that you had not changed anything. So maybe the install did not go as planned. I have seen it happen a few times.
 
I will try 4.3 again after the weekend. I'm also thinking of bumping my ram up from 1 gig to 2 gigs which might help.
Do you know how VDJ uses resources when it's playing video files? Is it using 100 percent the video card, or does it access local memory, CPU and Ram?
 
blaide13 wrote :
I will try 4.3 again after the weekend. I'm also thinking of bumping my ram up from 1 gig to 2 gigs which might help.
Do you know how VDJ uses resources when it's playing video files? Is it using 100 percent the video card, or does it access local memory, CPU and Ram?


Way to technical for me, but I guess I should know that. Hopefully, someone smarter will tell us both. More ram is always better, I do know that.
 


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