I'm trying to improve performance of Video Editor Pro 17 Plus on my laptop. The preview pauses and jitters alot when playing sections with more than one edit. (I will submit a suggestion for a "rendered preview track")
So I'd like to try moving the cache to a RAM disc (virtual disc in memory) because I think my hard drive is the bottle-neck; system RAM is faster.
Where is the cache located and is it possible to specify a different location?
Thanks,
Hi,
The only way is to free ressources from your computer using Ctrl +Alt +del view running programs and close unnecessary programs, check also memory used total and per running application.
Turn off your antivirus when your work on editing. Some free antivirus use a lot of memory.
Regards,
YR
Thanks YR. Yeah, I've done those things. I even have Game Booster and Advanced Windows Care "Boost" on (they stop unnecessary processes and services).
When I monitor my system during the glitches, the CPU looks fine (it's not high) and physical memory looks okay (not used up) but the disc queue / disc activity is always busy. So I'm thinking it's a disc/cache issue (mainly).
(I'd like to see them implement a "rendered preview track" so the program isn't trying to process all the edits in real time; you could choose to just watch a rendered preview, which would be quicker that exporting the project and watching it that way. I still have to find out where we submit suggestions. :)
Hi,
Try also to defrag your hard disk sometimes this help to speed If your work with HD project a good computer can use about double time to process the movie (double movie time) a slow computer like P4, 4gig, 32 bits can use about 9 hour to process 1 hour movie time.
Also may be your hard disk is slow to write data due to hard disk cache memory hard disk price has drop considerably from few last months
Regards,
YR
Yvon-robert, I'm sorry but you are confusing the topicstarter.
Leroi, I would recommend you to continue research on this issue and find out where Magix writes its cache. If you find anything - please post in this thread so everyone can see the solution. If I find something - I will post here.
Also I would recommend you either to buy bore RAM memory (it is very cheap now) or use that one that you have and do the following: find in Google what is RAM-drive, create a RAM-drive from your memory (for example 2Gb) and make Magix put the cache files to this RAM drive. In this case you will not be using your Hard drive at all. It is also a good idea for Windows XP 32bit users because it does not use memory largr that 3 Gb, so if you have for example 4 or 8 Gb RAM it is not being used. Using the RAM drive solves the problem. The RAM drive is the "hard dive" that residents in your memory. Windows thinks that it is hard drive but it is located in the memory.
Have a good day :)
P.S. The price of Hard Drives has increased very much after the water-flood in Thailand. For example if 1Tb hard disk costed 100$ a year ago now it costs 160$. And to write cache to the hard drive is step back in evolution. It is better to buy 4Gb memory for 30$ and write cache to memory.