Better lighting causes lag?...

[Ian W.]

Okay so, I did a few facecam vids with kinda crappy lighting to be honest but when I put that MP4 into Sony Vegas it had no problems whatsoever and there was no preview lag at all! So I got much better lighting and recorded some facecam vids, tried to edit them just there now and the MP4 from my webcam (this time with the better lighting) is really laggy in the preview, to a point where I can't even edit my video properly.. The audio is fine but the picture is so choppy and laggy, I can't work with it! I did a few tests, I made a short vid with the lighting off of me just waving my hand & it worked fine, no lag in the preview, then I made the same video but with the lighting on and the problem reoccured.. It seems to only happen when the lighting is on but the files with the better lighting play fine and exactly the way they were recorded in Windows Media Player & Movie Maker (which I used to capture the webcam btw!) It's really strange.. Anyone on here able to help?

 

[Brodie]

Shifted this to video editing (I assume this is youtube video related...right? )

The only assumption I can make is that if you have lighting the video would be more detail (as in coloured pixels) and therefor a bigger file which would mean more stress on the playback. I've never really had this problem myself, but you could try allocating more ram to the program perhaps? It could either be a hardware bottleneck or a software issue...(I wouldn't think the video file has any issues since you said it worked before)

 

[Ian W.]

Shifted this to video editing (I assume this is youtube video related...right? )

The only assumption I can make is that if you have lighting the video would be more detail (as in coloured pixels) and therefor a bigger file which would mean more stress on the playback. I've never really had this problem myself, but you could try allocating more ram to the program perhaps? It could either be a hardware bottleneck or a software issue...(I wouldn't think the video file has any issues since you said it worked before)

It sure is! Thanks for moving it! There I was thinking I had placed something correctly for once

I think I've found a way around it to be honest!! You can close this if you want Thanks for the reply [DOUBLEPOST=1415913783,1415913741][/DOUBLEPOST]30 minutes trying before I decided to make a thread about it and then as soon as I do I figure it out two minutes later... Typical!