http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Forum: Pinnacle - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:37:10 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/studio-15-video-and-audio-tracks-trim-together-help#post-74872 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:43:09 +0000 Hameed Gifford 74872@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Never mind, I discovered what to do. Hold down Ctrl.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/studio-15-video-and-audio-tracks-trim-together-help#post-74871 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:35:18 +0000 Hameed Gifford 74871@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm using Pinnacle Studio HD 15 Ultimate, and I'm trying to run a simple project with an opening title, then pictures with background music. I placed the background music track, then put the picture in place (which did not nicely snap to the end of the title, and I couldn't figure out how to), and in trying to resize the picture, if you make it last shorter, the audio does too. Why is this happening!!? It doesn't make any sense!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/studio-15-change-project-aspect-ratio-from-43-to-169#post-74719 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:19:09 +0000 redmondy 74719@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Jason, I had the very same problem. The Pinnacle Studio 'Help' facility was no help at all. I found the solution on another site. First with any scene in the timeline selected, go to the 'Edit' menu, and 'Select All' then click 'Copy'. From the 'File' menu select 'New Project' when the new project opens up select 'Set up' then 'Project Preferences'. Choose your 'Project Format' click OK. Finally click in the timeline and select 'Paste' your project should now be in your desired format. It worked OK for me and saved a lot of time re-editing.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/studio-15-change-project-aspect-ratio-from-43-to-169#post-74029 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:59:20 +0000 Jason 74029@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>New to Pinnacle Studio..made my first project and spent probably 20<br /> hours editing an hour of home movies/photos. All of the movies are HD<br /> Video. Just went to make movie and selected an HD format to export to<br /> and it warned me that my project was in 4:3 aspect. </p> <p>How can I<br /> change the aspect ratio for an existing project? I found out how to<br /> change it for new projects but can't see anywhere to change for existing<br /> projects. If you can't change it is there any way to start a new HD<br /> project, select all from the old project and copy it into the new<br /> project? All of the video is already HD in 16:9 format. </p> <p>This is Pinnacle Studio 15 Ultimate. </p> <p> </p> <p> Thanks</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hd-editing-on-pinnacle-15-problem#post-73920 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:20:31 +0000 Joshua Strazewski 73920@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;Are you joining finished videos or project?&nbsp; When I have oversized projects that get to be too much for the software I export it into a certain number of videos and then go back and add them all together.&nbsp; Your audio will be locked in place that way.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hd-editing-on-pinnacle-15-problem#post-73888 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:43:39 +0000 Moab Man 73888@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I don't have an answer for you if the machine is up to par. I can grab pieces from other projects, copy &amp; paste together, and have no problem. Like DNSVideo said, most problems I have seen are from under spec'd machines. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-on-a-feature#post-73875 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:36:48 +0000 DNSVideo 73875@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The titler in studio 14 should be able to do a lot of what you see in that video.  Pinnacle studio 14 has a tile building program that you can build awesome titles, and they will play over a video if put under a video on the timeline.  What I see in that video, when things pop up, it is the actual game this person is playing, showing these things on the screen.  What i see in that video is a screen capture of a person playing the game, no editing and simply posted to youtube.  You can do awesome videos with Studio14, using GIMP or any good photo edit software or program.  Type studio 14 into the search engine on youtube and see and learn what is possible.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hd-editing-on-pinnacle-15-problem#post-73874 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:27:53 +0000 DNSVideo 73874@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I am a studio user and have heard of people having all kinds of problems with studio, only to find out the computer they are running the program on does not have the proper specifications to run the program.  Below are the specs for needed for studio 15, is your computer have at least what is required to run this program?</p> <p><strong>Minimum System Requirements* </strong> </p> <ul> <li>Windows 7, Windows Vista&lt; (SP2), or Windows XP (SP3)</li> <li>Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz (2.4 GHz or higher recommended) <p> <br /> -Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz required for AVCHD*<br />   -Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66 GHz or Intel Core i7 required for<br />   AVCHD* 1920</li> <li>1 GB system memory recommended, 2 GB required for AVCHD*</li> <li>DirectX 9 or 10 compatible graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB or higher recommended)<br />     -256 MB required for HD and AVCHD*</li> <li>DirectX 9 (or higher) compatible sound card</li> </ul> <p>It runs fine on my computer, but it has 2 GB memory, 6 TB hard Drive, 1GB video card and a sound card.  Studio should have something like that to be able to run.</p> <p> </p> <p>&lt;/span&gt; </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hd-editing-on-pinnacle-15-problem#post-73870 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:26:35 +0000 jason 73870@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>i got an i7. Should be big enough to handle large formats. The problem is only when joining different projects together. When i edit from 1 project every thing is fine.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hd-editing-on-pinnacle-15-problem#post-73828 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:54:05 +0000 Moab Man 73828@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Oh, and welcome. Lots of great people in here that will go far beyond the call of duty to help. And they know what they are talking about.  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hd-editing-on-pinnacle-15-problem#post-73827 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:52:41 +0000 Moab Man 73827@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>What are the specs on your computer. I ran into (Avid Studio, Pinnacle 15's big brother) this while traveling and not having access to my editing computer. The machine was under spec'd for the program and I had sound in the wrong places. ONLY after downsizing the clips to a lower quality and then rejoining them all was I able to get it to work correctly. So that is how I surmised it might be the computer is not up to the task.    </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73823 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:36:22 +0000 GDDEWEY 73823@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Murray,Two questions. Is Avid Studio patch 1.1 loaded? What sort of video file is the program attempting to load when you start the program up? By default the program will be looking in your computer's My Photo, My Video, My Music folders for files to load. From within the program go to Setup/Control Panel and see Watch Folders. When I had my problem this was the first place I went to disarm the file loading part.</p> <p>I was definitely getting the "NG has stopped working" error with my problem, but your CPU useage is different than mine. I believe mine was a conflice with the actual H264 Codex being used and the Graphics driver. When I replaced the Codex and dll (dynamic link library) file that accompanied it things quieted down on CPU conflict/useage and I was running the normal 20-70% useage. My solution was on the AVID Knowledge Base, item 418915, titled "Green<br /> preview on H.264 Video in Avid Studio after updating Intel Graphics<br /> drivers". The replacement Codex is there. I don't believe you can loose by loading the newer Codex if you haven't already.</p> <p>As previously noted in another post above, I did find an excellent discussion by Hajin Lim of the AVID Technology Mountain View Office on the Pinnacle Forum at </p> <p><a href="http://forums.pinnaclesys.com/forums/post/497060.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://forums.pinnaclesys.com/forums/post/497060.aspx</a> </p> <p> who suggested a number of ways to increase Pinnacle/Avid performance. You might take a look there and see if there is something you might not have tried.</p> <p>Good luck. Avid Studio really is a fine program when you can get it to run. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73822 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:23:00 +0000 Murray Strome 73822@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have a similar problem, except that I have never been able to get Avid Studio to run long enough to really do anything before I get the message: "NGStudio has stopped working". It will fail immediately if I try to open any directory that has a high definition video clip within it. I have had absolutely no success with any of the things that have been suggested by AVID support people, including uninstalling and reinstalling the software several times, having AVID technical support take control of my computer and do all kinds of things (diagnostics, etc., etc.)  </p> <p>I have now had the software for almost a year, without being able to use it at all. I am using a system with i7 processor and 8GB RAM running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. The graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT. When I first got the software and experienced these crashes, I upgraded to this configuration at the suggestion of AVID.</p> <p>Pinnacle Studio (any version up to 14) works fine.  From the few short glimpses I have had of AVID Studio, it appears to offer much better colour correction and many other useful features, if only it would work!  I am rather amazed that the software seems to have such poor diagnostics on crashes, as there seems to be nothing to give AVID Technical Support a clue about what is going on, and how I could fix it.</p> <p>I have even tried reinstalling the OS then installing AS -- same problem.</p> <p>I have run the Task Manager while starting AVID Studio, and at no time does the memory usage exceed 50%, nor does the CPU usage approach 100% so my problem might be something a little different than others posting on this topic.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hd-editing-on-pinnacle-15-problem#post-73819 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:34:17 +0000 jason 73819@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello all, this is my first topic in this forum. Wish that someone might help me with my problem.</p> <p>I use pinnacle 15 to edit my HD footage. At the moment i am editing a long video footage and due to the complexity of effects that i am usind i decided to split the footage in 4 different projects in 1080x920 50i. Then after rendering each project in Bluray I will join them in one new project. The problem is that when playing the final joint product the sound of the first clip transfer itself to the second clip and so on. The last two clips will be without sound. </p> <p>I hope that i am understood. Hope to receive some feedback.</p> <p>Thanks</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73801 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:51:38 +0000 GDDEWEY 73801@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Ian, I have used Pinnacle and now Avid Studio for about 10 years, through many updates, and it has gradually become better and better. The new Avid Studio I can't say enough good about the program and what it can do. It is just every once and awhile you will want to throw it out the window or kick it down the hall. I recently completed a rather long (4 hour) render on my desktop for a convention. The render went fine and I had a great dual layered picture, my problem at that time was the menu the program produced. The dual layer through it off by one place for reasons I could never figure out. I don't believe they have ever fixed that little bug. So if you purchase Avid Studio be prepared for a little frustration. It will be there. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73799 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:36:37 +0000 HFS10Dude 73799@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Can't offer any advice why your having problems, however I too was experiencing similar issues on my new HP DV7-611TX laptop. All i did was to uninstall AS, re-install but NOT update the 1.1 patch, works a treat now. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73798 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:26:19 +0000 Ian James Smith 73798@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I had a similar problem, with limited editing resources (and computer), some years ago. Running a memory monitor at the same time, revealed that as rendering proceeded, reserve memory began to run down. The gradient of the rate-of-fall, in effect, put an upper limit on what I was able to render at-a-time, once a lower limit was reached, way down where emergency measures were triggered and meant to cut-in, they were inadequate, and the render quit, abruptly, without warning, ending in total computer 'wipeout'. With the information available to me at-the-time, I was unable to ever, completely, solve the problem, but the software proved to be eminently suitable, due to a very clear-cut 'snap' action over groups of two to five frames, for entry of 'frames' of material for purposes of animation, which, as you will know, can be a highly repetitive process, so anything which streamlines the same action, repeated over and over again, is worthwhile. To this day, that video-editor is still rendering excellent service when rendering sequences of animation into a usable form and I still render all of my animations to video using it, because the requirement is only for short duration, and the memory never runs down to an extent where any part of the process is put at risk. I have used a dozen different editors in my time, and those which excell at one function, may still turn out to be spectacular 'bummers' when used outside their comfort-zone. It's a case of 'Horses-for-courses', mainly, but thanks for the warning, as I had intended, medium term, to have a look at Avid Studio, myself.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73796 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:25:57 +0000 GDDEWEY 73796@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Karl,</p> <p>I have a solution to my problem with the 100% CPU crashes. The solution was on the AVID Knowledge Base, item 418915, titled "Green preview on H.264 Video in Avid Studio after updating Intel Graphics drivers". Though I did not have a green preview on H.264 Video (essentially AVCHD) I did have an up to date Graphics card with current drivers. The two files they suggested to install in the Avid/ Program subdirectory were dated September 2011 rather than the April 2011 shown in the subdirectory (don't hold me to specific dates as I am doing this from memory; the files were more current). The two files were H264Codec.ax and Media_SDK Wrapper.dll (dynamic link library). If you try the fix, which worked for me, I would recommend just renaming your two files to xxxold.ac and xxxold.dll. That way you can go back and reinstall them if the fix doesn't work. At this point, I have been loading files for about 45 minutes and the highest CPU usage I have recorded is about 75%, most of the time it is substantually less. Since you also have an intel graphics cart, I would say give it a try. Good luck. Keep me posted.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73685 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:03:27 +0000 Karl 73685@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;I wasn't able to download a new file from the website. I requested and used the new key when I re-installed. I got the same message again about KB981266. After installing the patch I still had problems after dragging a large clip onto the timeline while in movie mode.</p> <p>I set the priority in the task magager for NGStudio*32.exe. Still had the same problems.</p> <p>I was able to burn a DVD using a disk image created from my first computer. The files were on a seagate 1TB external drive. The DVD file size was over 6 Gig.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73683 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:08:30 +0000 Karl 73683@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;I can't seem to post correctly. How in the world am I going to fix this problem? LOL.</p> <p>I will try your idea as soon as I install the Avid Studio again. I thought that there may be a problem with the file I downloaded last March. This is the second computer I installed it on and that may have something to do with it.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73682 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:58:07 +0000 GDDEWEY 73682@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Karl, I did not get your post. I have a blank square. It has been one of those days. Happy New Year. Please try again.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73678 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:17:11 +0000 GDDEWEY 73678@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Karl, I did find one thing over on the Avid FAQ just now that seemed to help me for a brief period (before I crashed again) and that pertained to priority of processes within the Task Manager. It only worked for me for a short time before I overloaded again but it might be worth a try in your situation. Hope it helps. I think my problem is more conflict than memory.</p> <p>This is what was suggested.</p> <p>"In some cases it can be helpful to increase the priority of the Studio application in Windows. Here is how to do that:</p> <ul> <li>With Studio open, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the keyboard.  </li> <li>Select Start Task Manager.</li> <li>Select the Processes tab. </li> <li>Locate NGStudio.exe in the list. </li> <li>Right-click on NGStudio.exe and select Set Priority. </li> <li>In the Set Priority section, try selecting AboveNormal or High. </li> <li>Once<br /> the change is made it will prompt a warning asking if you are sure you<br /> want to change the priority class. Select Yes to this. If there is any<br /> undesirable change, simply change the priority back to Normal."</li> </ul> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73677 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:04:35 +0000 Karl 73677@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;GD,</p> <p>The nemo check worked fine on mine as well.</p> <p>GC:44MB Lf:12MB Av:73KB Tf:132 MB</p> <p>If these are memory usage at time of crash, They seem really small.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73675 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:34:30 +0000 GDDEWEY 73675@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Karl, your problem certainly sounds like my problem. I have the same graphics mode set as you although I am running with a 1Gb GDDR5 Radeon HD 6490M Graphics card. Of interest, Avid comes with a little program called "Nemo Check" that it loads with the program in the "Start/All Programs/Avid Studio/Tools menu. That program indicates I should have no problem with HD. Very frustrating.</p> <p>Composite 1 has suggested I contact Avid directly about the conflict, which is what I was getting ready to do. I am able to run Avid Studio with patch 1.1 on another machine without a problem abet somewhat slowly on the render but I wanted to port the program to my Laptop i7 with 8Gb memory for working in the fileld. With what I am running the program should handle the memory and my CPU should not crash. I am running Win 7 64 bit Premium Home Edition and receive that same Net.Framework 2.0 KB 981266 message on install. I have also received the system low on memory message just prior to crashing. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73674 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:35:44 +0000 Karl 73674@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;I think I am having the same issue. I have a new ASUS machine </p> <p>Report Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;12/31/2011<br />Report Time[hr:mm:ss]:&nbsp;&nbsp;11:25:13<br />Driver Version:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;8.15.10.2405<br />Operating System:&nbsp;&nbsp;Windows 7&nbsp; Service Pack 1(6.1.7601)<br />Default Language:&nbsp;&nbsp;English (United States)<br />DirectX* Version:&nbsp;&nbsp;10.1<br />Physical Memory:&nbsp;&nbsp;6049 MB<br />Minimum Graphics Memory:&nbsp;64 MB<br />Maximum Graphics Memory:&nbsp;1696 MB<br />Graphics Memory in Use:&nbsp;&nbsp;43 MB<br />Processor:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7<br />Processor Speed:&nbsp;&nbsp;2394 MHz<br />Vendor ID:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;8086<br />Device ID:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;0116<br />Device Revision:&nbsp;&nbsp;09</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>*&nbsp;&nbsp; Processor Graphics Information&nbsp;&nbsp; *</p> <p>Processor Graphics in Use:&nbsp;&nbsp;Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000<br />Video BIOS:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2111.0<br />Current Graphics Mode:&nbsp;&nbsp;1366 by 768</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>*&nbsp;&nbsp; Devices Connected to the Graphics Accelerator&nbsp;&nbsp; *</p> <p>Active Notebook Displays: 1<br />&nbsp;*&nbsp;Built-in Display&nbsp;*</p> <p>Monitor Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Generic PnP Monitor<br />Display Type:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Digital<br />Gamma Value:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.2<br />DDC2 Protocol:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Supported</p> <p>Maximum Image Size:<br />Horizontal:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;13.39 inches<br />Vertical:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;07.48 inches</p> <p>Monitor Supported Modes:<br />1366 by 768 (60 Hz)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Display Power Management Support:<br />Standby Mode:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not Supported<br />Suspend Mode:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not Supported<br />Active Off Mode:&nbsp;&nbsp;Not Supported</p> <p>Raw EDID:<br />00 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 0D AF 90 15 00 00 00 00 <br />1F 13 01 03 80 22 13 78 0A D1 F5 93 5D 59 90 26 <br />1D 50 54 00 00 00 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 <br />01 01 01 01 01 01 60 1D 56 BC 50 00 26 30 1E 3F <br />4C 00 58 C2 10 00 00 18 00 00 00 FE 00 4E 31 35 <br />36 42 36 2D 4C 30 44 0A 20 20 00 00 00 FE 00 43 <br />4D 4F 0A 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 FE <br />00 4E 31 35 36 42 36 2D 4C 30 44 0A 20 20 00 4D </p> <p>Avid Studio is the only software I installed other than ESET antivirus. When installing I have the same message about missing microsoft&nbsp;KB 981266. I click ok and it seems to install everything. I have reinstalled AVID STUDIO and tried with or without the 1.1 patch. Also tried the repair option. Every time the install goes ok but when I work with large HD video clips I get the message&nbsp;"the system is low on memory - it is requested to restart the app. (GC:44MB Lf:12MB Av:73KB Tf:132 MB"</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73672 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:42:12 +0000 GDDEWEY 73672@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks, will do.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73667 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:34:33 +0000 composite1 73667@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>GD,</p> <p>At this point you seem to have isolated the issue. Contact Avid Support directly (e-mail or call) and see if they may have a fix for you.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73665 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:05:46 +0000 GDDEWEY 73665@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Update; I am absolutly befuddled. My Windows 7 updates are all current. My machine has had the Registry and Shortcuts organized by an assortment of Utilities to ensure there were no conflicts present there. I did remove Avid Studio and reinstalled it on the Laptop. It reinstalled, as before, except initially it indicated there was a missing file that it needed to load. That particular file related to a Microsoft Net.Framework 2.0 application (which upon further investigation is supposed to be completely incorporated within the Windows 7 64-bit OS. For example: If you try and load the MS Net.Framework 2 program file yourself, the update will refuse to load indicating it is already on the machine within the OS). At any rate Avid appeared to load the missing file (I really question, based on my research, whether it did) and went on to install the entire Studio program. I still have my resorce conflict problem, however, crashing with 100% CPU usage.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73638 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:49:59 +0000 composite1 73638@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>GD,</p> <p>In the higher versions of Avid products and other upper level NLE's, you can go into your software's 'Preferences' or 'Options' menu and select the amount of computer resources available for editing. RAM, # of CPU cores, GPU RAM and harddrive space are among the resources NLE's are allowed to draw from. Also, it may come down to doing a reinstall. For whatever reason, you've got a resource conflict be it hard or software and when your software draws upon the available resources, the conflict occurs and your system shuts down. Another thing to check is for the latest win update (service pack.) I'd still put a call into Dell and see if they know something concerning the laptop that may be the issue. Last but not least, you may just need to change NLE's. Vegas Studio is an entry-level program that works quite well and it wouldn't take you long to get up to speed with it or heal your wallet after purchase. I've got experience editing with 7 different NLE's (most higher and high-end), because a particular one couldn't do what I needed at the time. So, if you need to change it's not that big a deal. Just don't break the bank.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avid-studio-using-100-cpu-and-crashes#post-73628 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:12:04 +0000 GDDEWEY 73628@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Wolfgang, thank you for the suggestions. I am still crashing. I have rechecked and have the latest drivers for the graphics card, the latest BIOS, etc. There does not appear to be a conflict with AVID and the graphics card. I did find an excellent discussion by Hajin Lim of the AVID Technology Mountain View Office on the Pinnacle Forum at </p> <p><a href="http://forums.pinnaclesys.com/forums/post/497060.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://forums.pinnaclesys.com/forums/post/497060.aspx</a> </p> <p>who suggested (among other things) adjusting the computer for best performance. That seemed to have the greatest impact on the CPU, however, I still crashed. </p> <p>I am not familiar with your reference to cache and RAM preferences in Avid Studio. If you could go into detail on that a bit it would be appreciated. I do have render while play set to off; background playback disabled; and, quality set to fastest playback - if that is what you were refering to. Thanks again.</p>