There are several things that could cause the video to stutter:
- Applications running in the background may cause the video to stutter. For best performance, quit other applications.
- Projects on slower media (such as a Jaz drive) with lots of single frame clips combined with audio may cause the video to stutter. Move the project to a faster media (such as a hard drive) or reduce the number of single frame clips.
- Drive fragmentation can cause the video to stutter. Use a hard drive utility to defragment the drive or move the project to a different drive.
- If the media clips are on a Jaz drive and the Disk Cache is set to greater than 96K, the video may stutter. Open the Memory control panel and set the Disk Cache to 96K or lower.
- When viewing the movie preview, parts of the movie (especially those with titles) may appear to stutter because the movie has not been fully rendered yet. This stuttering will disappear when the Send Movie Out function is performed.
- Avid Cinema is not compatible with Mac OS 7.6. Using Mac OS 7.6 with Avid Cinema may result in stuttering video. Avid Cinema is compatible with Mac OS 7.6.1, as long as version 1.1.2 or 1.1.3 of Avid Cinema is being used.
- Raising the memory partition of the application beyond the default via the Get Info window may cause the video to stutter. Do not adjust the Preferred Memory Size of the Avid Cinema application.
This article was published in the 19 June 1997 "Information Alley".