Small problem

n2gethernow · Post by **n2gethernow** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:08 pm

I have some hellsing footage off of a dvd that i wanna make an Amv out of, i have done everything right, except when i finally put the footage to the music in windows movie maker it goes completely slow, is there a way i can get rid of this?

Note - It's works all fine in Media player and The Movie Maker Preview Window, just doesnt work when i am editing it.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:15 pm

what codec is your footage encoded with?
what are your system specs? (the more details the better)
how many effects/transitions do you have in the video? (general terms...like I'm using a lot of them, or I'm using hardly any)
are you trying to use fake avi's as a substitute for working with aviSynth scripts in your editing program?
(if you don't know what this last one is, then you aren't trying to do this and should ignore this question)

n2gethernow · Post by **n2gethernow** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:21 pm

1. The footage is in .Avi file, if thats what you mean
2. i have absolutely no idea, is there a way i can find out?
3. dont have any effects
4. I'm not using fake .Avi's

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Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:37 pm

1: click on the gspot banner in my sig, it'l tell you this info (post what is says for codec, name and status)
just open the program, then drag and drop your footage into the program

2: get cpu-z (this is a direct link)
and post what it says for:
processor name and core speed under the cpu tab
Type, size and frequency under the memory tab

n2gethernow · Post by **n2gethernow** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:49 pm

codec - lags
name - lagarith lossless
status - codecs are installed

processer name - Intel pentium 4
core speed - 3000
type - DDR
size: 1024 Mb
frequency - 200 MHz

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:59 pm

Lagarith is a fairly resource-demanding codec. If you encoded entire episodes using this codec and are trying to use it in WMM, then the program will probably slow down because it's a pentium 4 and the program is WMM.
(pentium 4 processors pale in comparison to AMD athlon 64 processors for this kind of work)

WMM is known to have many, many problems...and it might be that your processor can't keep up. (memory shouldn't be a problem)

to try to fix this, you might try to take small clips from each disk/episode and encode those with lagarith and import them to use in WMM.
You can do this pretty easily with VirtualDubMod (avaliable in the amvapp, or by googling it).
If you have any other programs running at the same time as you're editing, try closing a few (or all) of them.

if you haven't defragmented your HD in a while you may also want to do that.