Running scene recognition on a movie recorded from TV (file size 3 - 4 GB) starts with recognition of 60-odd scenes a minute and Page File Usage of less than 1.5GB. This steadily blows out to PFU of 3GB+ and 15-20 seconds a scene.
I am using 250GHz Pentium Dual Core E5200 Intel G33/31 chipset - 4GB RAM - XP Home SP3.
Is there some setting which will stop this slow-down?
Hi
I suspect the problem is due to the computer being underpowered for running MEP MX. Although software manufacturers will give a minimum spec for computer hardware requirements I consider these to be the absolute minimum to run the software, however I do not expect any performance out of a minimum spec machine (Magix are not the only ones who do this!).
These may help:
Ensure you have plenty of free space on your hard drive and defrag it.
While editing disconnect from the Internet and disable all non essential programs eg Anti virus, anti spamware.
HTH
John
After all this time I think I can give a definitive response, John.
I now have a new computer (3.6GHz quad-core with 8GB RAM). Many time the grunt of the old machine. In fact, parsing a file for Scene Identification only uses about 25-30% CPU availability and 25% RAM. Unfortunately, the problem persists.
My conclusion is that MAGIX has an algorithmic problem which consecutively increases the computation required for each scene recognition (resulting in slower and slower recogniotion times) and/or a data storage problem which similarly increases the storage/retrieval time required.
It is interesting to note that this problem does not occur with MAGIX Video Easy. They seem to have built a better mousetrap which is worse!