p2 viewer motion
- Thread starter Johny
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The P2 viewer is pretty hardware intensive (especially if you're playing back 1080 video fullscreen). You may want to lower the quality settings or playback size in the options section to improve performance as this may alleviate some of the choppiness issues you're experiencing.
Mathew Knight
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Your computer will be too slow. The recommended system performance for playing back HD full screen is about 3.2Ghz CPU and 1Gb RAM.Scrappy said:
The only thing to do is go into the P2 viewer tools menu, under customize and in the HD playback tab you can select 'play half frames' and 'half resolution on full screen playback.
Either that or find a faster computer. Its a pain.
try shooting some DVCPRO50 and see how that plays back. On laptop I tried HD wouldn't play but PRO50 was fine.
Here's some info from the P2 viewer download site (theres is a useful on the site thats shows what you can and can't playback);
About P2 viewer playback
*Recommended environment to play back DVCPRO HD format clips
-CPU: Pentium D (3.2GHz or greater)
-RAM: 1GB or greater
*DVCPROHD format clips cannot be played back on personal computers that do not have a CPU that supports SSE2 instructions such as Pentium M, Pentium 4, Pentium D or Celeron D.
Note :
• P2 clips of DVCPRO HD format can be played back on PCs with CPU supporting SSE2 instruction code such as Pentium M, Pentium 4, Pentium D and Celeron D, and it can not be played back on PCs with Pentium III, Athlon or Athlon XP.