adobe premiere pro cs6 question

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ryanbowling

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we have edited several videos with this software and love it so far. only problem i have encountered that is really annoying is when i put our clips into the (what i call it) timeline, then watch on the playback, the video is really choppy (starts and stops). even when changing the playback from full to 1/4... is there a setting on my computer i need to change or a setting in premiere?? i am running an asus notebook u43 series with intel core i5 processor, 6.00GB RAM on windows 7. any suggestions? or should i post this under a different forum on here?

thanks in advanced. we are new to this stuff:thumbsup:
 
What is the type of video file you are playing? I've noticed directly importing MTS files will stutter on playback even in my quad core.
 
ryanbowling said:
i am running an asus notebook u43 series with intel core i5 processor, 6.00GB RAM on windows 7. any suggestions? or should i post this under a different forum on here?

thanks in advanced. we are new to this stuff:thumbsup:
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I have to say your computer sounds a bit under-powered. Windows uses 2.6GB of RAM, so you have only 3.4GB left for Premiere. You don't say which CPU you have, but the i5 family in general is weaker than the i7 family. You don't say which u43 model you have -- and don't bother, actually, as the models change daily -- but that's not really a performance machine. Specifically I don't know if it even has a decent graphics chip, so you're probably not getting any acceleration there.

In general, for video editing, use a high-end desktop machine with lots of RAM and a meaty graphics card which is on Adobe's supported list: http://www.nvidia.com/object/premiere-pro-cs6.html

Or check out their hardware optimising paper: http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/121762/adobe-hardware-performance-white-paper-2012-06-27.pdf

I use a laptop too, because I absolutely need the portability. Mine is an ASUS G53S, which is part of their "Huge and Bloated" product line. Seriously, it's massive and weighs a ton, but it's still technically portable, and it gets the job done. I had it custom built for me. The specs:

* Core i7-2860QM @ 2.5GHz (quad-core plus hyperthreading)
* 16 GB RAM
* NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M (not officially supported by Adobe, but you can wangle it -- so I have HW acceleration)
* 500 GB SSD for working files (movie footage and caches)

This machine is just over a year old and it's already pretty dated -- for example, the Core i7-3930K has almost twice the performance. 32GB RAM would be better (but costly). But it works OK for me in Premiere.

For the record, I edit AVCHD footage from an FS700, and it works smoothly and fast in the timeline.


P.S. How to enable acceleration on non-supported NVIDIA graphics chips:

http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm
 
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laptops, as opposed to PCs that can have extra 'bit's always seem to suffer like this unless very well specified. Proper graphics cards, higher speed drives and bags of ram help - but I just upgraded one of my machines and noticed something. I have lots of computers, office types, music based machines and edit type machines. I also have others dedicated to stage use - running lights and sound effects. What I tend to do is upgrade the weakest one, then swap them about. I upgraded the sound computer - new mother board, processor memory etc - and usually start completely new. I upgraded the XP on the sound machine to Windows 7 and Cubase 7 is running fine. I've installed my edit software on it and it runs quicker than the machine I'm editing on. The graphics card lets it down a bit, but upping the processor and memory makes it quicker than the edit machine with a more fancy video card. So end speed is a juggle between the various bits, each having an impact. In a laptop - maybe they're just conspiring against you?

One question - on the timeline, have you got coloured bars above the clips? Yellow or Red? If so, try rendering the clips to see if you get smooth playback?
 
Still I would like to know what kind of footage the OP is using and how his settings are.

His computer seems 'decent' enough to handle most compressed 1080p footage.
I have a i5 2500, 8GB RAM and an (unsupported) AMD graphics card and I can edit native 5D/GH3 footage just fine. No choppy playback whatsoever, even at full resolution. Only when using After Effects at the same time, my 'performance meter' indicates that I'm using around 7-8 GB of memory. Otherwise it never goes beyond 5-6 GB. My CPU is a 2nd generation i5 and has no hyper threading. Not trying to 'defend' my setup here as I would like to have a new generation i7 myself but currently it is more than 'enough' to have a smooth editing experience.
 
Are you dropping thefootage on the timeline or are you dropping it on the "make new item" icon which conforms the sequence to the settings of the clip?
 
Hi
Some good advice in above posts.
My 2 cents. You are outrunning your hard drive. Likely 5400 RPM and handling Windows, Premiere, Premiere cache, reading video in and writing video out.

Easy test. Plug in the fastest external drive you can beg, borrow or steal. USB3 if you can. Put your footage on that and try an edit. If that helps go buy a nice SSD to replace your drive or use external hardrives. Try to make external 7500RPM.

This should be a relatively quick and eaasy test. Premiere moves lots of data and bandwidth issues are usually the culprit.

Let me (us) know what you discover.

Best regards to the board
 
thanks for all the awesome feedback. i think i have narrowed it down to what most of you mentioned, just overworking my laptop. i need more ram, better graphics, stuff like that. i worried in the beginning if it would keep up with premiere. i basically have to have a portable set up for our application (dirt racing). i'm going to do some upgrading and hopefully get this annoyance fixed. thanks again for all the ideas and help
 
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