Thanks Steve and Bob. I appreciate y'all taking time to look into this with me.
I'm an old reel-to-reel analog audio guy. Had a studio for 17 years so I've had to learn to dance with computers for living - not what I enjoyed the most...
Had a college background with film (but physical film - can you say "moviola"?) Pretty excited about what I could now be doing with video.
But time (away from audio work and music) and affordability has kept me from revisiting visual media up until now - so it's a crash course. (Yeah, OK... )
Thanks for being someone I can just ask directly while I'm clueless!
Steve,
[ ] yes I think I'm up to date on Quicktime: 7.7.9
[ ] an example of a file would be vbme0055.mov - but thanks to Bob's post, I don't think you need to waste your time looking into this any further.
Bob,
- great summary checklist of info in your post!
[ ] "The vbme files are quicktime "mov" files using the jpeg2000 codec. This is very compute intensive codec"
- Great info for a nub like me. It helps me know what I don't know! It pushed me to look for and find Steve's pdf codec intro info. Thanks!
[ ] "There is nothing wrong with the file. When you export the finished video, it should playback smoothly."
- Check Grasshopper thanks you. (learned some "render vs. export concept here.)
[ ] "To improve playback (preview) while editing in Premiere Elements, render the video by pressing Enter."
- sadly, this did not help (it did push me into researching and understanding the WAB better - thanks!)
[ ] " You may need to turn off hardware acceleration."
- didn't help either.
- I used the Hardware Acceleration switch in PrEl15's Preferences/General tab (hoping to avoid a system wide change I'd have to go back to use my DAW).
- Would I gain anything with the Win7 switch? - OR -
[ ] I hypothesize my ATI Radeon HD 5450 Graphics Card is the issue, assuming my 3.40 gigahertz Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2 CPU and Intel DZ77RE-75K MB (more info in previous post) ...are up to the task...
-- any advice?
- This computer is still agile, even with newer audio software offerings. But I know it's an old-timer by computer age standards
- Can I hope to edit video with a better GPU, (any specific recommendations for this setup?)
or is it time to chew my leg off and consider buying newer computer tech?
Thanks for your help!