are my comp specs to low...

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:05 pm

when i try to make a video with like 3 showing at once with track matteing the thrid video always lags / skips whatever u want to call it

so is this a hardware problem, my specs are:

AMD 64 3200+ 2.2ghz
1gb Kingston Ram
ATI All in wonder 9600 xt video card
asus k8n-e delux mother board
250gb maxtor SATA drive

ty in advance

CHAMELEON_D_H · Post by **CHAMELEON_D_H** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:27 pm

my calculator watch is better than ur comp.... j/k... r u ediding using avisynth files? if so that might be the problem, try using the bait and swich method -
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... meth3.html

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:30 pm

all the files are mpeg layer 1's

CHAMELEON_D_H · Post by **CHAMELEON_D_H** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:39 pm

i dont know if its the problem, so try the link i posted..... works for me and my computer is about half of yours.. XD

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:43 pm

ah okay so i tested something out that i was suspicious on

and its not that i cant play 3 videos at a time, its the "motion effect" that is messing it up.

it can do one just fine, but when theres 2 moving boxes it goes nuts

i just took out the motion and put all three videos so they stayed in one place and no lag at all,

any clue on this? or should i post in a differenet section of hte forums

bum · Post by **bum** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:41 pm

I'm guessing the problem has something to do with your video card drivers. Uninstall whatever ones you have and get the latest from www.ati.com .

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Sun May 01, 2005 11:47 pm

k ill try that
i dont see how thatll work but its an option

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:27 am

Most likely cause is the harddrive access times.

Check you're drive activity LED when you are trying to play back the sequence, if it is a drive issue, the light will remain (almost constantly) on.

I've got an Athlon64 3400+ 2.2GHZ (it's the old Clawhammer type with 1MB cache, as opposed to the one you probably have which would be a 512KB cache Newcastle core)

I can play back multiple files fine, so I'd assume it's the HD.

Another thing to do would be to ctrl alt del and go to the CPU usage graph, and see if it's maxed out on playback, if it is, then obviously the processor doesn't have enough go in it, and you should just render it.

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:23 pm

i do have it rendered when i do it...or do u mean export render?

lmao wheres the hard drive activity light...
never leraned about that in A+ computer maintance o.O

i have two drives btw, the one im using is my 2ndary drive

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Sat May 21, 2005 12:15 pm

The14thGOD wrote:lmao wheres the hard drive activity light...
never leraned about that in A+ computer maintance o.O

O.O"

Harddrive activity light is on your tower/desktop. It's usually near the power button or the power light.

If like me you have a raid setup and the card doesnt have LED headers on it (and therefore drive activity on the RAID array isnt shown on the LED) there is a program called O&O drive led, they also make a good defrag program too, worth checking out.

http://www.oo-software.com/en/index.html