Hard drive speed 4.20Ghz, L1 384 KB, L2 8.0 L38.0. SSD. Free space 70 GB; RAM 16GBfiles on an internal second disc drive with 650 GB unused; MP4 1920 x 720 resolution 29.xxx fps Windows 10 Home 64 bit version 22H2 19045 2364. Device driver reports that my videocard is updated fully Version 27.21.14.5751

@Kam-Srikameswaran

Hi. First Hard drive speed? 4.20Ghz, L1 384 KB, L2 8.0 L38.0.

That looks more like your CPU specs, not a drives specs and is the same as the specs on the AMD website. However Free space 70 GB seems fine if it's an SSD.

RAM 16GB Seems ok depending on what effects you are adding. It's easy to run out of ram in some instances.

files on an internal second disc drive with 650 GB unused; What drive type, make, and series? for example, Western Digital RED. SATA 4TB. The second drive needs to have a large inboard cache to prevent stuttering or freezing as files are read. Also made sure it is de-fragmented if it is a mechanical drive as fragmented project files can cause problems.

There seems nothing strenuous about using MP4 1920 x 720 resolution 29.xxx fps video files although depending on the encoding has produced problems in the past. Are the files from VHS tapes and interleaved?

Windows version is up to date.

While the driver for the nvidia card is up to date, Magix is now recommending the use of the game ready driver over the Studio driver. It may be worth trying the game ready driver.

You also said the program freezes after playing for a few minutes. So how long is the project and what effects are you using? How many tracks are there?

Can we have a screen grab of the timeline please?

Ray.

...also, video editing puts a lot of stress on your computer hardware, the that CPU runs really hot.

Also, do you have Task Manager open to see what is going on with CPU, GPU, disk access and RAM usage?

My first try with this version. I had no problems with MS 15! I have insrted only four short clips on the time line.Here is a screen shot. Question is why do I have to go through all these, if the software specs are not only met and even exceeded?

I've always thought the specs listed by manufacturers, especially minimum have never really been honest. And it's something that should be changed to reflect what would really give a user a good editing experience.. Technically, yes, your computer should handle editing as long as you don't go too far with "stuff".

You listed the resolution of the videos, what created them? 1920x720 isn't a "common" resolution.

MediaInfo will give more information on your video files. It's free. Run it, drag a video on top of it, look at View>Tree, and copy/paste.

Or... provide a file to the cloud so others can download and try it on their systems.

Sorry imy typo. Its 1920 x 1080 a common format recorded on on my Panasonic camera Videosetting. Here is the mediainfo screenshot of one of the files.

@Kam-Srikameswaran

I have to agree with @Reyfox about the specs.

After looking at the specs for your CPU it may be the processor is too old as it says at one point.

F16C / 16-bit Floating-Point conversion instructions

and if I remember correctly the program uses 32 bit floating point conversion in it's calculations.

The specs page for VPX14 which is the same generation program as Movie Studio 2023 is more specific stating it needs an AMD Ryzen processor minimum which is some generations newer than your current processor. The motherboard may also be inhibiting the full use of your nvidia graphics card. Of that I'm not overly sure but seems a reasonable assumption. I'll be honest and say it has been a long time since I owned an AMD processor and I am out of touch over their capabilities or shortfalls.

I'll disagree with Reyfox over the 1920 x 720 not being a common resolution as it is standard for VHS transfers to digital and digital broadcasting. Early 'HD' TVs were 1920 x 720 but you would normally see that resolution applied to MPEG-2 files rather than MP-4.

Unfortunately newer programs are written for newer hardware and operating system requirements and in video in particular specification requirements change faster than for other mediums.

You could try right clicking on the program icon and run as administrator and see if that helps.

Another thing to try is to open Task Manager and try to see what maxes out when the freeze occurs. It could be you just run out of motherboard ram which tends to creep up in use the longer the project is. I find using the performance tab to be the easiest to keep an eye on.

Ray.

@Kam-Srikameswaran thanks for the clarification and the resolution of the video clips. I still think your computer should be able to handle a "plain vanilla" HD clip. Check and make sure your Nvidia drivers are sort of current.

And if you can upload a sample to the cloud (Google Drive, etc.), that would be nice.

@Kam-Srikameswaran

Hi

. . . . Device driver reports that my videocard is updated fully Version 27.21.14.5751 . . . . .

Driver version  27.21.14.5751 - Nvidia reference version number 457.51 - was released on 22 November 2020 and is 2 years out of date.

The current driver for the GT 1060 is, as previously commented by @CubeAce, 527.56 - the full Windows version number being 31.0.15.2756 and is available here.

John EB
Forum Moderator

OK, John. Thanks. I'm downoading it now! Let us see what happens!

John, Rey and Cube! Thanks for your help. I downloaded the 31.0.15.2756 driver recommended by John and tried MX2023 again. So far, no freezes. Thank you Marc for your advice. Will keep you posted if I have any issues! Kudos to all of you!

@Kam-Srikameswaran

Hi.

Just glad I was wrong about the processor and kicking myself for not recognising an older nvidia graphics driver.

Moral of the story should be is don't rely on any third party programs to inform you about driver releases but make a habit of going to the appropriate websites once a month and check for yourself. Graphics drivers are updated often.

Ray.