CS5.5 dropping frames...FCP7 smooth as butter

KyleProhaska

KyleProhaska

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I haven't been too crazy about Premiere CS5.5's performance since I started using it and I can't figure out what the deal is. I have a new 2011 MacBook Pro and a simple sequence with an old HDV file in there, Premiere's HDV1080p24 preset, and a very simple levels adjustment. It can't playback without dropping frames after going for about 4 seconds. I open up FCP7 (which is 32-bit by the way) and put the same file in a properly configured sequence, add the same type of adjustment effect...and it's smooth as butter. Not a single dropped frame to speak of.

Anybody have any idea what's going on? I have 8GB of RAM, and don't have any weird settings causing this as far as I know. Just doesn't make any sense to me that CS5.5 can't play an old HDV 25mb/s compressed file with a simple 3way CC adjustment smoothly on this new laptop, but old FCP7 can.

Any ideas?
 
What other programs can do is not always relevant. It may simply be that your system can't handle the unrendered playback.
 
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