PMB (Picture Motion Browser) FAQ

FAQ's on PMB (Picture Motion Browser) are introduced by category.

Category

Environment and Specifications
Import and Export
Play
Editing
One Touch Disc Burn
Handycam Utility
Troubleshooting
Others


: Question
: Answer
Play
What is the Expand Videos?
The video in AVCHD format cannot be played back smoothly.



What is the Expand Videos?
When the Expand Videos function is used, thumbnails of scenes other than the first scene of the video can be displayed. You can view contents of videos at a glance.
The Expand Videos function has two patterns.
  • Film Roll Index: displays videos as thumbnail images by time interval.
  • Highlights Index : automatically searches for the highlight scenes of videos that show someone's face or in which laughing or cheering are recorded, and displays them as thumbnail images.


back to top
2007-6-1 / 07_00039

The video in AVCHD format cannot be played back smoothly.
The symptom may be corrected by the following steps.

For Windows(R) XP users:

  1. Double click the image displayed individually.
  2. Check [Maximize Performance During Video Playback] in [Menu].

For Windows Vista(R) users:

The step 1. and 2. are common to Windows XP.
  1. Click [Tools] - [Settings…] - [Advanced settings].
  2. Check the [Enable DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA)].
  3. Start Player for AVCHD.
  4. Click [Settings...] in [Drive and Other Settings].
  5. Uncheck [Use Video Mixing Renderer 7].
    * If videos cannot be played back properly by above steps, please restore the settings.
* You cannot use a few functions, such as [Step Forward] and [Step Backward] when you select [Maximize Performance During Video Playback].

Note

When the symptom can not be corrected by the above steps, the following things are possibly considered.
  • a shortage of your PC CPU Performance
  • other applications are running
Even on the computer for which operation environment is confirmed, noise, dropping frames, sound breaking may occur.


back to top
2009-1-4 / 08_00083



Copyright 2009 Sony Corporation