I've just upgraded to XP, and installed Edition V6.1 SP2. It's all working fine except the Background rendering is defintely not in the "background" It takes up 95% of the CPU, and while it's rendering (very slowly) the mouse, keyboard, etc have such a ridulous delay that it's impossible to do anything.
Nothing else seems to be running. I have got Norton Internet Security installed, but disabled (This always worked fine running 5.6 under Win 2K) Anyone have any ideas?
Have probably solved this too. My wife has installed some downloaded software from the evil empire - iTunes & iPod. This installs something which seems to constantly monitor your drives for media files. Of course when you're rendering, you constantly write media files to the drives, so it's constantly searching and updating it's index. Now not run at startup - thanks to MSConfig (a livesafer.)
Chris,
From my experience, there is a great deal going on the background that we never see. Experts in video-editing tell you that we should dedicate the PC to editing alone, without the installation of Internet, Word Processing, etc. I have never been in the luxurious position of dedicating a PC for editing - it is a hobby!
However, when in a serious editing mode (I use LE 7, now AL7), I have downloaded a program called Enditall2 which closes or "kills" about 13 programs that were running in the background that I never knew about.
Contrary to the advice of some very highly-respected contributors to these boards, I also use Norton which I disable manually before using LE - and I have few problems with LE!
Alan Wells
I normally turn OFF background rendering when editing with LE, as I have found it does slow things down, and my PC is dedicated to editing.
When I take a break for coffee/lunch I turn ON rendering and everything's ready to view when I return. I presume the faster the computer, then the less intrusive is background rendering.
Alan
Like you, I don't have the luxury of a dedicated machine. However, until I installed XP, I have been running everythig quite happily without any problems - MS Office, LE5.5, Internet, loads of Audio programs, Photoshop, etc. I also use EndItAll2.
Unfortunately, although the rendering problem is now resolved, I don't seem to be able to play back. After 20-30 seconds, the audio starts breaking up, then it drops frames, the video playback stops and then the playback head - but it continues to play audio. This is very similar to a problem I had a few years ago on an older PC with a SoundBlaster card. However, the current machine is using an M-Audio Delta66 with ASIO drivers, so I very much doubt it IS anything to do with audio. It's almost like the drives are totally fragmented, but they're all completely de-fragged.
Anyone know if the Render files need to be on the same drive as the media files? I am using C: for system and program, D: for render and G: for media.
Ended up uninstalling V6 and re-installing V5.6 which is working fine. Either there is something wrong with V6.1 (unlikely) or there is a problem when it upgrades old projects to V6 (much more likely IMHO)
All my projects are fine, except for one. This keeps on saying it's been edited using a later version (even though I have completely re-installed the project froma back-up drive), and therefore cannot be edited - it just displays a load of black icons and question marks - not names on any clips, racks, sequences, etc.
As I am shortly upgrading to V7, is there any recognised upgrade method to follow to prevent problems with projects? I have never managed to upgrade the software (which I have been using since V2.55) without suffering major problems with corrupted projects, etc. ANy advice gratefully received.
If you use LE for authoring to DVD I would advise against upgrading to 7 until they sort out various problems with the authoring side.
I`m running 5.65 on one machine, 6.1 on another & 7 on the laptop, they are all rock solid except the authoring feature in 7.
I have found that a multi boot system with one Windows XP partition with LE and another for everything else works very well for me.
Obviously the video drive/s is/are separate but the system partitions need not be too big : Say 40-50G. max .
I have 2 PCs and each is Multi boot ( 2 and 3.) I got vexed with Studio 9 and wanted to convince myself it would work well if nothing was in its way but have since benefited from the experience.( Oh yes ....it does now and its younger brother S10+ does work well!)
Apart from the obvious headaches awaiting the unwary ( i had a massive headache doing a major upgrade to Win XP SP2 but nothing before and since then) I think it is better than trouble shooting an all in one system and cheaper than a dedicated system ( which is perhaps the ideal but is a luxury and not only financially).
I seldom find background rendering that intrusive ( P4 3.0 ,1G Ram ,Geforce FX 5900 256M) but took on somebodys advice ( on this forum) to turn it off and put it back on during a break by time time I get back its all done.
I have the upgrade bug 6.1 to 7 ( no particular reason as Im ok with 6.1 for now) . Apart from the DVD authoring ?? what else should I be wary about?
Barry
You seem to have all three are the 6.1 and 7 as different in GUI as the 5.65 and 6.1?
I only use the classic interface! The main differences would appear to be in the initial setting up of a project, also the DVD authoring parameters. Smartsound is interesting in that you drag a "SmartSound" blank onto the timeline, stretch it to the desired length & then "Open with SmartSound" you can then preview your sound palletts including, if desired, sampling clips from the main site & then purchasing them if required.
Then general gui is virtually the same.
Thanks for that. Hmm....sounds like a want then , not a need!
Talking of liquid has anyone noticed when you build a timeline dvd and underscore music under the menu the damm thing starts replaying the music from the beginning when you navigate through the links. Phew !!
Or do you know something I don't
les