Lag in videos

Hi all..

I am doing a documentry type thing for my organisation. I am using my 550d to take videos, but when viewed on my computer I am getting a lot of lag. Can someone help me with this? Also, when published through movie maker and put on another computer to show, will I also have lag?

Lots of reasons for "Lag". Slow computer, corrupt video files from bad card, outdated codecs on your player, ect ect ect.

Kento wrote in post #14798936
Lots of reasons for "Lag". Slow computer, corrupt video files from bad card, outdated codecs on your player, ect ect ect.

Kento is right. There are many reasons. If you want less lag right on the spot, close all background applications. A program called Game Booster can do this with a click of a button. I use it everyday. Upgrade your RAM and video card also, that will for sure fix your problem most likely. Run a virus scan also, viruses can obviously slow down your computer resulting in lag. In regards to lag on other peoples computer it all depends on there computer setup too. Hope this helps

The most direct way to determine if it is the computer or your files is to test the files out on resources outside of your computer. Upload one to youtube, vimeo or another online video service. render out a low-res version and watch on your computer or email to a friend. Many computers have a hard time playing the compressed files that come off of DSLRS. the computer i am on right now tends to lag when playing them in windows media player but they seem to play well in my editor.

^ I second this, H.264 is not a great editing codec as it is very processor intensive. There are workflows where you transcode your footage to a more efficient format.

What are you editing with?