Preview not hitting music beats properly.

[Penfold]

I have a Compaq 1.8GHZ EVO 510 SFF with about 768MB of ramm. The only thing that I have the only thing I will keep on this computer is Vixen (WORK HORSE). I have tried to shrink my preview picture of my house and tone it down on the contrast, but for the life of me I cannot get the sucker to adequately blink to wizards in winter. I noticed a slight problem with Christmas Eve Sarejavo and tweaked it a bit and got around it on that. It seems that the faster I have a song going the harder time my system has with keeping up. Also, I have tried to get it running faster by increased the virtual memory to the max (2280 pages I believe on my system). I am running at 50ms 57600 on all songs.

What can I do to get the preview up to par? Should I try to just sequence the song and hope that when the actual sequence goes live, hope that the fast parts are sent accurately to the channels specified?

My list thus far is as follows:

1. THX robot intro-Done-No problems in preview

2. Frosty the Snowman-Done-No problems in preview

3. TSO Christmas Eve Sarajevo-Done-Tweaked a tiny bit- no problems in
preview

4. Wizards in Winter - Mucho PROBLEMAS in preview!

[sandy]

Besides just making the picture smaller,
did you reduce the resolution?
The picture is in memory and if it's taking lots of it,
then reducing the size and resolution could help.
Also convert your music from mp3 to wav files.
It's less work for the computer to use them that way.
even tho the files are larger, the run time is better.
I had similar problems with mine until I turn the picture resolution way down and lots of compression.

[Michael]

I have noticed that if I have other plugin's active, that my preview lags a lot. Sometimes I forget to disable all but the Adjustable Preview when no hardware is hooked up, and that causes me pauses.

- Michael

[Penfold]

Yeah I have already tried to disable plugins, so that the adjustable preview is running. I still get the same thing. What I did originally was take a picture with my digital camera at the lowest MP option (1.5). I then cropped it to get the size a little smaller. I don't know how to "compress" a photo, but would be very appreciative if someone would show me how.

[Michael]

Oh, you have a picture in your adjustable preview....
I never bothered with that, I just start with a blank black screen and put a single pixel for each channel. Some of the larger channel groups get a few longer pixles, but only a few. I wonder if that has anything to do with performance?

A very easy program for resizing images for free is infranview. It will even do whole subdirectories at once.

- Michael

[Virtus]

Have you seem the file sizes used in this video? They are very small. Dave explains why in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_YiFh4VZYA

[WWNF911]

Penfold,

You can take your original picture and resize very easy right from Mocrosoft Paint. Usually comes standard with every windows package. Once you've re-sized it, save as JPG file format. This "should" take care of bringing that file size down to a usable level.

Hope that helps.

Leon