storyboard playback distorted

[Guest]

I have a problem playing back my storyboards. The captured video clips work fine, but when I put them on the storyboard, the preview screen can't keep up with the moving video curser-only showing different frames at a time, not the whole thing. This makes it extremely hard to edit because you don't know how it looks, and how fast your transitions are set to go.
Thanks,
Krechen

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Interesting..... what type source files are you doing that with? WMV, AVI,
still pix?

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I'm new to WMM myself, but someone found a solution to a similar problem

in other video editing software. The playback is slow because the bitrate
of your source files is of very high quality (or higher than WMM likes). So
what I did was make lower resolution copies of all my source files. (I
don't think WMM can do that... I used a shareware program called VIrtualDub
which works nicely.) Anyway, I made a subfolder called "Hidden" or
something like that so you have your final source files in one place that
WMM can't see. I put the source files in the folder and the low resolution
copies where they used to be. Now when you open WMM, the clips point to the
copies, which are the same so all your edits are unchanged, but at such a
low resolution the previewer plays them back smoothly. When you're ready to
make your final movie, discard or move the copies and put the originals back
in place. WMM will then read those and make a high resolution final
product.

Now, I've tested this once and it worked great for me. I haven't tried it

with lots of effects added to the movie either. It seems like a lot of
time, but I really need the preview to run smoothly so I can match the music
to it. If anyone has a better suggestion, I'd be happy to hear. Also if
you need further info on VIrtualDub, feel free to ask. Hope this helps!

 

[Guest]

They're all AVI files. You also have to make sure the codecs used to compress both files are the same or similar. I used different codecs, but they are both lossless, so it worked for me. Haven't tried it with WMV, but I just installed MM2 3 days ago!

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

Your reasoning with making a low quality file to play will work, but which
codecs did you use. I can't see a lossless conversion being that much
smaller than a std dv-avi file, if at all.
Graham

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Graham Hughes
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They're all AVI files. You also have to make sure the codecs used to

compress both files are the same or similar. I used different codecs, but
they are both lossless, so it worked for me. Haven't tried it with WMV, but
I just installed MM2 3 days ago!

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I was wrong about both being lossless! They both use only keyframes. (I knew they had to have something in common.) Anyway, that might not even hold true fpr WMM; the original solution was applied to Adobe Premier.
I used PICVideo MJPEG at a low quality (around 8 out of 25) for the smaller versions. My final quality was converted using HuufYUV (the lossless codec that confused me), and is easily 10X larger than the low quality version. Sorry for the mix-up!