Serious performance issues

LordYalet

Hi, I've been using VideoPad for some time.

I had composed short videos before (not exceeding 15min length). Now I am editing a new video, about 12m in length, with fewer assets than others. However, just to add a single transition between two clips, my cpu usage skyrockets from 0 to 50-60% and basically cannot do anything else. This is just for executing the single task of adding a transition of 1 sec. The task takes up to 4 minutes.

My specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz

4GB DDR2 RAM

1TB hd

No other programs are running besides chrome. A bigger video with more assets gave noone of these problems in the past.

borate

LordYalet wrote:

My specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz

4GB DDR2 RAM

1TB hd

Video editing is resource intensive; more RAM might help.

In VP, under the TOOLS menu|OPTIONS|DISK tab, click the "clear unused cache files" button.

In Windows, Control Panel|ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS|DEFRAGMENTER, defragment the drive.

From an elevated command prompt, type "chkdsk /f" (no quotes) <enter>. It may prompt

that it cannot check because the system is in use; do you want to check at next boot?

Click YES and reboot. Let it go through its paces, verifying the file structure on disk.

Depending upon the operating system, you may invoke the command prompt via START button|

ALL PROGRAMS|ACCESSORIES folder. Right-click on the Command Prompt and click "run

as administrator."

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It might probably be because you are running Google Chrome at the same time. Shut it down, either normally or via the task manager and see if things improve.

Nat

LordYalet

I already tried clearing cache files and closing google chrome before seeing the answers.

That said, only barely 50% of physical ram was used: 600MB of which are simply occupied by VideoPad with a totally empty project. And even having slow or fragmented drive doesn't influence that operation. Adding a transition to the sequence should only change the project configuration without affecting any other resource. And even if it did, I would expect high disk usage, not high cpu usage. Additionally, I emphasize that a more complex video editing two weeks ago didn't show any of those problems on the same machine.