make sure you have you mac optimized.

are your videos on an external or internal?

what i find is the issue most often is;
1) heat...so check your temps.
2) the videos...where did you get them?


post here too www.inklen.com
you will get a good and fast response.

how do i optimize my mac?

external

temps are normal

xtendamix.

I always RUN smc fan control whenever I do videos...its free.
crank it up.

Ive heard, in the past that the 8gb ram model macs have had issues with VSL, but I dont know about ME...
I know someone actually pulled 4gb of ram out, and it worked like butter.

<---I pulled my 2 x 4gb ram sticks out and ran 2 x 2gb ram sticks and had better performance.

Mind, this was about 2 years ago.

I didnt wanna speak for ya ;)

if he is running a 2.3 MBP, its probably a 08-10 model

mines an 08 model

I use a 2008 with 4 gigs and mine runs great... I would suggest you drop your buffers as low as you can in ME and SSL... that usually does the trick

well, it's pretty much optimized from the startup.
just make sure you don't have a bunch of other items running.
it's recommended to turn off bluetooth and airport but frankly, i have never had them cause problems.
just run only what you have to run.


and what Millz said.

oh yea, and RUN

that too. it helps me a lot.
but i have an older mbp. not sure how well the new ones dissipate heat.

I guess the mac is suppsed to know when its too hot.

Ive been at gigs where Ive forgot to enable it,. and I note my waveforms and videos arent perfectly smooth...
one click, 30 seconds later... butter

plus u touch that upper left corner, and scald your palm

i have a late 2011 2.4 mbp 17 with the 512 ssd. i just 16gb of ram in there. fast is an understatement.

op, fill out your profile so we know what you're working with (pause) or post your specs here.

I'm going to guess one of two things:

1) You have the external screen set to a high resolution (try lowering it);
2) You're making the classic newbie mistake of running Video-SL at the same time as ME.

i disable vsl....im gonna try the ram thing and the fan thing....do you guys recommend running the videos on a internal drive??

you don't need to do that. it will make no change, unless you were running vsl at the same time. do not run VSL and ME at the same time. it's not at all necessary.
lol...oddly, not knowing any better when i first got ME like 3 years ago i actually did run the 2 at once.

from what i have read it's better to have files on the internal but you should be fine on an external. firewire is preferable.

FIREWIRE PWOWERED 7200 RPM is Ideal.

I get away with a GoFlex 1.5TB Port-Powered with the FW800 Adapter and its been money.

though, when I used the WD 2.0 TB firewire 800 @ 7200 I will say that track load is maybe
1 second faster...but its still very very fast.
IE WD takes .75 seconds, Goflex take 1.5 seconds,

If your videos are from xtendamix your 2nd resultion show be somewhere in the 640x360/640x480 range...
Depending what you plug into your display port you will get Different options.
another thing I heard years back was you 2nd display Refresh Rate should not match your screens refresh rate (Usually 60 and 60) I do 60 & 70

make sure VSL is not on as well.

another thing my hard drive space is fullish you think that would be a big factor? my computer runs fine with everything running its just when i plug the hdmi cable into the computer and then it starts getting slow.

yes..delete some stuff and make more room. that is a huge factor. my 500 gigs are almost up on my mac. I have found vsl to run smoother than ME but that's just my preference or could be to low disk space my drive was pretty full.

i have about 30 gigs free...

damn then that should be plenty..When i download the demo for ME i noticed it performed sluggish it is very slow compared to VSL. I think ME works alot harder on the computer than VSL. Me is dope but I see a big difference in the two.

my waves in serato are SLOW and CHOPPY

Man for some reason my HDMI use to slow my system down, when I switched to VGA, runs smooth as hell. When I had the HDMI for i could easily tell the difference because the dials in Serato seem to tick like a watch instead of running smoothly.

I wonder why. That's wierd but I've heard that from others. With VGA my waveforms are very smooth.

i have to go from hdmi to a converter to rca then tv,

I have a gig this weekend where the only port I can access at the party will be HDMI, I sure hope it goes well.

Fixed!!..
Actually ME Uses less resources the VSL. That's why it'll run smoother.. All you need to do with ME is "LOWER THE BUFFER"

the cache?

try lowering the resolution on the second screen to 800x600. If you're going to a component signal anything bigger than that is overkill. Your laptop is working hard to output a 1900x1200 image for no reason, slowing everything down.

also make sure your mac is set to "higher performance" instead of "better battery life"

Yes.. and on Serato too.. your basically tell your computer to use more resources then need to.. that's why you getting choppy wave forms

Can someone post a screen shot of their buffer and cache settings in ME and VSL.

i1103.photobucket.com

ME Screenshot

i1103.photobucket.com

Serato SCREENSHOT

Ok, i am totally clueless now. I have been setting my Cache at 2gig or halfway between 1gig and 2 gig. I gotta go try and see if there is a major difference. I also have the 2 boxes checked on the screen.

The image overlay screen I dont even know how to load items on there or how to get them to play. Yeah I know I need to spend more time trying to figure and get the most out of ME. I have had it over a year and still only know the basics.

I was playing last night and my videos looked like they were choppy and not smooth at all.

How do you set to higher performance?

I left my equipment in the truck last night, going to go get it now to try to check the performance with the cache set lower.

I just googled "how do I set mac to higher performance instead of better battery life"

www.google.co.uk

you gotta try to help yourself a little, man... better to learn how to do it than just get spoonfed answers. it will benefit you in the long rong.

yea it crossed my mind that you may have a 13... sorry

What resolution do you have the external screen set for??

Recent-generation 13-inch MacBook Pros should run ME fine, but not if the external screen resolution is set to something high. (Anything over 600x800, and probably 640x480 or "480p" is a better idea.)

System Preferences/Displays....and the "gather windows" button in there is a huge help (otherwise you're trying to change settings on screens you may not be able to see that well).

ME is actually more critical than VSL about what resolution the external screen is set.

I always run my 13" at 640x480.

No point going bigger if your videos are only that size anyway.

What do you have your cache settings at.

I wish I could get the videos to play on a external screen the way they look on my laptop. The quality is definitely not the same. Back to the garage to do some more tweaking.

Smc fan control as well!!!! Wide open!