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Topic: What is the best way to make video playback "smoother"

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I have a very good laptop (Core2duo, Quadro 1500M 512MB video, 2GB RAM).

Is there any way to get the video to play back a little smoother. It doesn't look "bad" per se.... but I am a perfectionist. Wondering if there is any way to get it to look better.

It especially gets a little choppy during the transitions. Thanks in advance.
 
Posted Sat 20 Jan 07 @ 4:33 am
You have some pretty good specs there! Your video should be smooth as butta. Slow RAM might be a problem in your laptop since there are a lot of things being moved in RAM by VDJ. Make sure you don't have anything running in the background that you don't absolutely need. That should help a little bit.
 
What kind of settings do you recommend in the performance tab? Right now I am just using the default settings. I might have turned sound latency to auto... but I am not sure.

I am not sure what kind of RAM I have... but I have an HP business class mobile workstation (laptop). It has a single 2GB RAM chip in it (HP brand).
 
is the video intergrated or dedicated?

have you tried lowering the proformance tab and choosing autolatency
 


the best way for smoother video play, is lower your screen color resulution to 16bits (you dont need more for videos), and even lower the resolution of pixels, to 1024x768 or even 800x600


That gives a performance boost;)
 
Are you saying to do this in both screens (laptop and second monitor?
or just the second screen?
 
Video is dedicated. I just want to alter the actual output on the second TVOUT screen. The videos in the virtual DJ program are definitely choppier. But thats not an issue because the customer doesn't see that.
 
bryantpb wrote :
Are you saying to do this in both screens (laptop and second monitor?
or just the second screen?


16 bit on both, 800x600 on 2nd monitor
 
I tried that. It looks a little better. I also bumped up my performance settings to "best quality". System ran stable. I guess this is a good thing?

I probably won't get it any better than it is now. I suppose I was expecting it to be as smooth as a DVD player and thats probably not reasonable. LOL
 
Video mixing is not the same as regular dvd play;)

So it does depend a lot on what graphic card you have...
 
If you say it is choppy during transitions, just click on either preview window in the skin and that will smoothly transition the video to the player, but remember you need to uncheck "Linked Crossfaders" in the Video menu. This is the way I play and the transitions are SMOOTH. You will never get a smooth transition on Automix that is why if I am walkin away and have to automix I change the transition to "Satelite Boom". Let me know what you find.
 


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