WHY doe TMPGENC ALWAYS!!! Freeze when I am cutting

[gabestang]

I know that alot of people say the program freezes when using the merge/cut option but WHY is this and can anything be done to prevent it?

I've heard to hit play/pause before you cut as well as hitting ctrl alt del when it freezes to bring it around.......

I've also personally found that it does come back to life (even when the programsays NOT RESPONDING) if you just wait it out but this take a great deal of time and when I've got 30 cuts to make I can't wait around for it to revive itself


Does anyone have any suggestions for a fix?
Or as to why it does this

TMPG Version 2.510.49.157
ATI AIW 7500 capture card
1700 mhzx procecssor
256 mb ddr

Thanks

[Craig Fuqua]

It may not be frozen, but just taking a very, very long time to do its work. If you have a large file, expect a long wait. Check your hard-drive light to see if anything is being written.

My experience is that

My experience is that it's very slow at cutting and joining (and encoding to MPEG-2, compared to CCE).

Alt-Ctrl-Del may say it's not responding, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's frozen. While cutting and joining, TMPEG won't redraw its screen until it's done.

[gabestang]

I undedrstand that It may not be frozen but what is the reason the program is this slow? As well when I say hit ctrrlaltdel I mean simply when you open task manager it starts the hard drive moving again.......because due to the inexistance of movement (by ear and by light) I become speculative as to wheather or not this is a glitch or not but it is certain that it is not processing ANY information at this time , correct it is not frozen but it is in a certain suspended animation which is what leads me to feel it is a mearly correctable glitch


ps what are you specs

mine:
1700 amd
256 ddr win xp
aiw radeon 7500

[mbm]

The only time that I have this problem is when I try to use MPEG2 streams that were encoded using VBR. If I use streams that were encoded with CBR , I have no problem scrubbing forward or backward.

[ZippyP.]

I avoid using the slider bar and instead enter the time in the box to move the pointer.

[Nelson37]

Haven't noticed the suspended animation you describe but it is often very slow while updating the video, this seems to be directly related to filesize.
30 seconds or more is not unusual.

Entering timecodes does seem to help, particularly as TMPGenc gives me inaccurate timer indications. I use VdubMod for correct timecode, then enter directly in TMPGenc. This sucks for many commercial cuts, but it works.

I have similar machine, cap both hi and lo bitrate Mpeg-2 VBR, with and without IVTC.

[puertorican138]

TMPGEnc is known for being a bit buggy when cutting or joining files.