When editing using Pinnacle and sampling the video and transitions the vid freezes but the clip keeps playing. I had purchased a EVGA fx series PCI card because the software said the onboard video wasn't enough for the prog. I think I have the card set up properly between myself and the techs at EVGA. I have all the latest vid card drivers installed plus the latest Pinnacle drivers. Plus I installed the latest patch for IE7 as instructed by pinnacle before installing the 10.7 uddate. Everything works fine untill I open a project to edit. Immediately Pinnacle uses 100% resources. That's when the vid freezes but the counter keeps rolling. Any ideas on how to rectify this problem? Thankyou kindly

I am not sure exactly what you are doing, but I can tell you what I know. I use Studio 10 regularly to Edit, Author and burn DVDs from pre-captured mpeg2 files ( I use the Hauppauge 250 card for capture, never could get Pinnacle to see my camcorder). Pinnacle drove me crazy until I found out that it does not take kindly to resource competition. I learned to shut down my internet access (Comcast cable) and PCcillin Antivirus. I then enter Task Manager and End Task on my video card overclocker utility, Lightscribe detection utility, several D Link wireless network entrys, and basically everything else that is not essential processes for running XP. Then I boot up Studio. Suddenly all my problems stopped and S10 ran beautifully with no hiccups or glitches. It still has a couple of irritating behaviors but they are minor and can be relegated to "needs improvement in engineering" dept. Another thing I do regularly, although I don't really know if this has anything to do with it or not, is to use Hijack This to prune-out BHOs, useless browser toolbars and any other startups that I don't need that are loading on start. There is a Pinnacle forum that has helped me a lot, and possibly you might find it helpful: http://forums.pinnaclesys.com/forum... Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.

Thanks for the great reply! I'm gonna try your suggestions and close down everything that is not needed in the task manager and see if that helps. I'll post back.

Ok, I tried the suggestions listed above and still my processor use from Pinnacle sits at 97 & 98% as soon as I open a project to edit. I also posted my problem in the Pinnacle Forum, but so far only 1 person answered questioning the vid card...LOL Any other ideas would be appreciated>>>Thanks

Are you sure it's freezing?? When you open a project there are many things that studio is doing, and it needs time to do these things. Granted sometimes it takes what seems to be an eternity! When I first open a HDV file studio will do a lot of background work for up to 7 or 8 minutes (and I have a quad core). What project is it... mpeg... avi...HDV...? Does it already have transitions and such? Are you sure the video you're importing is good? Try turning background render off and hardware acceleration off.

Yes I'm sure the vid is freezing, but it still advances frames. It was an avi file and yes the transitions are on it and the video is good, taken from my cam....oh...get this, I got on a live chat with Pinnacle support, all he said was download and install Direct X 10 and then blew me off. Directx 10 does not work with XP home, go figure, no wonder Pinnacle is getting such a bad rating lately. I will try your suggestions, Thanks

Directx 10 does not work with XP home, go figure.. Are you sure? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/wi... i_Xp/VistaUser