TERRIBLE video problem PLEASE HELP

[andythelad]

I tired this in another section with no responses...so im posting it here hopefully to get a broader audience of anyone who knows ANYTHING about this problem

Woe is me, for I am but a lowley director with half the technical skills needed to do what I do, but ususally that just means things take longer. Anyway, here goes:

Hi, this problem started about a year ago, but i have not really had a project to work on since then so I am just now in real need of a solution. I have wondows XP and use Premiere, though i dont THINK this is even a premier problem. everything worked fine for months after i got my computer and then suddenly video files stopped playing correctly. they wont play correctly in any video player or in premier, the sound and audio are terribly choppy. The same thing also happens when trying to capture now. but this is not any video file, seems that only DV quality files do not work. I have already formatted my hard drive once, and installed more RAM (1.5gig total now) to try and fix this. I also have pentium 4 processor, though I notice the CPU jumps up to 100% when I play files (but my friend who is much more technical says that may be normal).
I have no idea what to do now please help me.
-Andy

 

[Sirius_Doggy]

Do you have seperate drives for your OS and A/V storage?

How long since you defragged?

The fact that it used to work ok and now it doesn't leads me to believe it's either a defrag issue or if you only have one harddrive, you've reached that magic 50% capacity number.
By that I mean if you have a 100Gig drive, once you reach 50Gigs of files I occasionally notice a performance drop.

BTW - patience is a virtue...:engel017:
You shouldn't double post the same request in different catagories. Everyone on this board works for a living and hangs out here to help each other. Sometimes it takes a bit of time before the right person comes across your post.
I'm sure others will chime in with ideas.....