Sluggish response w/Quicktime video

[slangification]

I'm working to a Quicktime video in PT, and the response is pretty sluggish. It takes a while after I click on something for it to actually happen. Can someone recommend some settings to change, or some way to make it more responsive?

[FajitaTone]

Use Cleaner 5 to reduce the data rate of the Quicktime movie. Or make it smaller. What machine are you on?

[RobMacki]

Try setting movie track to block.

[Boom Chic]

Hide the movie track in the edit window.

Are you viewing your video on an external monitor? If so , try dragging the QT window to the bottom of the screen with only one row of pixels showing.

How big is your QT video file? What/how did you digitize it?

[slangification]

Thanks...

It's a 1 minute QT video I got from the client. It's 2.2 megs. Boom Chic's suggestion to hide the QT video track seems to have solved the sluggish response issue, but I'm getting a lot of PT crashes. I'm viewing the video clip on the same 22" monitor I'm using for PT.

I never got crashing before working with video, it used to be rock solid.

I'm on PT 5.3.1 on a 933Mhz G4 w/HD2.

[slangification]

Followup:

I increased the RAM available to the PT software and the crashes magically went away.

[pnoise]

I've had similar problems working with QT video...especially when the track count starts to get up in that 30-40 range. Even though I keep the QT video on my internal mac HD, and the audio is feeding from my two SCSI drives..the track count seems to have some effect. I've never thought of hiding the QT track in the track view area...I'll try that. What kind of memory allocation fixed your problem.

I'm on a G4-450 w/ 756Mb RAM. Interested to know your setup.

Thanks

Steve

[slangification]

Steve,

I'm on a 933 G4 w/512mb ram (other details listed above). I just changed the PT software memory settings to a minimum of 138136 and a preferred size of 210986, and that has solved the crashing.

And hiding that track made all the difference in overall system responsiveness.

Originally posted by pnoise:
I've had similar problems working with QT video...especially when the track count starts to get up in that 30-40 range. Even though I keep the QT video on my internal mac HD, and the audio is feeding from my two SCSI drives..the track count seems to have some effect. I've never thought of hiding the QT track in the track view area...I'll try that. What kind of memory allocation fixed your problem.

I'm on a G4-450 w/ 756Mb RAM. Interested to know your setup.

Thanks

Steve

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