Is Elements 2.0 slow? Or is it me?

Rob · #1 (**permalink**) 07-05-2006, 05:10 PM

I saw APE2 at a good price, and although I already use Serif MoviePlus 5, I snapped it up.

I can't seem to run it at a decent speed. Epecially noticable doing a preview, and redrawing the thumbnails on the timeline.

I have defragged my C drive and tidied up my constantly running programs to a bare minimum.

Is there anything else I can do? I'm not using it for HDv, just the standard MOD files from my JVC HDD camcorder. Which are MPG2 files, effectively. I know it's not ideal, but MoviePlus seems to handle it at least twice as fast.

BTW, I have 2 GB ram, and a single 3200 Mhz CPU

komatoast · #2 (**permalink**) 07-05-2006, 06:01 PM

try without the tumbs in your timeline u can have it either with them, with out them or with 1 at each end of the clip. i think that may speed things up

Team Man · #3 (**permalink**) 07-06-2006, 03:21 PM

Rob,
Have you tried this

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bbcf9cb

Alan

Rob · #4 (**permalink**) 07-07-2006, 05:45 PM

Thanks for that! Maybe I should RTFM as I didn't know about the extra step "Render" that I should be doing in elements. LOL

Cheers.

saxman_cat · #5 (**permalink**) 07-19-2006, 04:22 PM

Hi rob,

It also helps if you zoom your timeline out at the point you want to preview from, so use the zoom in on the timeline to find the point you want to preview and then zoom the timeline back down. You also have the option to set the image size on the timeline and i would set it to small when you are previewing. You say that you have stopped all programs that are running but have you made sure that your antivirus software is not still running even though you think you have disabled it.