Creating proxy

nbugler wrote on 11/28/2014, 10:01 AM

Hello

I am a new user of Movie edit pro. It has been working fine up to now but now it is really struggling to playback footage even after creating proxy, it also seems to a take a huge amount of time to create the proxies. I have about 20 videos that I want to trim down into few second clips to create a film only a few minutes long but seems to take forever so I also wanted to know if you can convert just the clips rather than converting a whole video. Its quite a frustrating process the other thing is that after exporting a film it plays ok in windows media player but not on Movie edit. I am using a gopro which i realise are big files but dont understand why its suddenly started to struggle when it was fine to start with.

regards

Nik

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johnebaker wrote on 11/28/2014, 3:49 PM

Not enough information to go on however it looks like you have 2 seperate issues:

. . . . why its suddenly started to struggle when it was fine to start with . . . .

What is your computer specification, Windows version and is it 32 or 64 bit and what version of MEP are you using?

. . . . I also wanted to know if you can convert just the clips rather than converting a whole video . . .
The technique you are using is more difficult than is necessary for long videos.

Read the section of the installed pdf manual about Loading parts of movie files - there you will find a description of how to use the Preview monitor, setting In / Out points while previewing and then adding the marked section to the timeline.

HTH

John

nbugler wrote on 11/28/2014, 4:10 PM

Computer spec is: Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140706-1506)

System Manufacturer: Packard Bell
System Model: EasyNote LJ

BIOS: InsydeH2O Version V1.06

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II Dual-Core M300 (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz

Memory: 4096MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 3836MB RAM
Page File: 3919MB used, 5715MB available

and its Movie edit pro 2015 plus.

Will check out the pdf .

thanks Nik

johnebaker wrote on 11/29/2014, 2:26 AM

Hi Nik

Assuming the GoPro video is HD then your computer will struggle because it is below the minimum required specification for handling HD video see here.

John