Cure for lag? ^_^

Aki Ameko · Post by **Aki Ameko** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:41 pm

Ok, I'm new to this, and I'm sure it's a 'WELL DUH!! THAT'S WHY WMM SUCKS!!!" and very obvious thing that's been brought up a lot. WMM spends so much time lagging that I can't see if I got my timing right, and it goes to 'Not Responding' very often. Anyone know how I can get it to work for me, like the nice little movie making program it's supposed to be?

"LOL, u n00b!"
"Get a better program, DUH.

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^I've said it already, so now I don't want to here it.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:43 pm

You're going to have to be a lot more specific about what's going on. "WMM is lagging on me" isn't enough information. We need more than just symptoms, we need to know relevent setup. For one, what kind of source are you trying to use? For another, what kind of hardware are you using?

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:47 pm

more ram should help, but if you already have a good amount of ram (1-2gb) increasing ram might not be the most cost effective way to reduce lag.

i've found that using divx's shitty-quality/fast-speed mode of encoding produces the least amount of lag of all codecs i've used, including lossless codecs/uncompressed. the video quality will of course look terrible, but you can swap these out with lossless quality clips after you've gone through the editing stage and figured out what scenes you want to use.

Aki Ameko · Post by **Aki Ameko** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:05 pm

Kalium wrote:You're going to have to be a lot more specific about what's going on. "WMM is lagging on me" isn't enough information. We need more than just symptoms, we need to know relevent setup. For one, what kind of source are you trying to use? For another, what kind of hardware are you using?

Let's see, well it's .avi files created in VirtualDubMod, and for hardware do you mean what kind of PC I have? It's Windows XP. And as for ram, no clue. How do I find out?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:36 pm

VDubMod... meaning lossless stuff? HuffYUV? If so, you're likely to get some lag, and there's very little you can do about it.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:05 pm

HuffYUV is pretty fast... I'd be suprised if it was causing lag.

Though I've only used it in Premiere.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:21 pm

I'm going to posit a relatively low-end machine, with the resulting fairly low about of physical RAM availible. Which would account for the lag.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:50 pm

I can't vouche for ram, but I was able to work fine with HuffYUV on my old eMachine, a Pentium III at 500mhz with 512mb of RAM. However I did work at 512x386 instead of 480p in those days.

Even so, I don't think HuffYUV should even result in a 'waiting' type deal. That sounds more like DivX or a laggy AVS script. When using Gravitation on Vdub to convert to Lagarith, there would be a wait while waiting the frame to load due to the filters and ivtc.

Could that be his problem?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:57 pm

I, on the other hand, have experienced editing prog lag with HuffYUV before at full res. It happens, I know for a fact.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:08 am

Kaisune wrote:And as for ram, no clue. How do I find out?

right click on "my computer" and click properties

cpu-z is just a cool tool that can tell you some useful/interesting things about your computer, including how much ram you have, and what speed it's running at

if you have an older/slower processor or 512MB of ram (or less, but I was using premiere pro 1.5 on my laptop with 512MB pc2700 ram with no real problems) you will probably run into lag issues when trying to do any type of video editing. Adding effects to your video could also be causing the lag