Help editing in cs5!

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osuman1017

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Today was my first day working on cs5. I have had quite a few problems already. When I import the video into cs5, I go to play it and its all choppy and really laggy. I have tried turning the resolution down, and that has not done anything. also, when i drag it into the sequence in the top right corner, the video is shown to be really zoomed in even know im on the "fit" setting. and it is also choppy and gets stuck on frames in the sequence also. I have an HP DV7 with 4GB of ram, 500gb hard drive running 64 bit and a II dual mobile M520 processor. the system is overall really slow to. i dont know if this matters, but i changed the sequence to DLSR because i hear it makes it run smoother, but it doesnt work either ways. i was also shooting MPEG movie.
 
We edit all our stiff now in CS5.5. We find that footage in mp4 and AVCHD (like we get out of our GH1's) does not play back smooth on our system - which is a 2.8 Ghz Quadcore with a 560 GTX CUDA acclerated graphics card. Footage from our EX1 edits perfectly with no lagging, as it is much less compressed than the GH1 avchd codec. From the description of your system, it sounds way underpowered to edit mpeg or avchd on CS5. The Mercury engine is great, but you need to have the horsepower to run it. You might try transcoding to a less demanding codec like ProRes LT (on a Mac) or it's PC equivelent (we use DNxHD to be compatible with our Avid system).
 
Make sure to select a lower playback resolution if you're having performance issues. You should be able to play H264/AVC fine in real-time at a reduced resolution. Right click the playback window and go down to playback resolution and select something lower.

It sounds like you made a lower resolution sequence...this would be why your footage seems zoomed in. Instead of doing that, just use the same resolution as your footage, and reduce the resolution using the method I mentioned.
 
weismangroup said:
We edit all our stiff now in CS5.5. We find that footage in mp4 and AVCHD (like we get out of our GH1's) does not play back smooth on our system - which is a 2.8 Ghz Quadcore with a 560 GTX CUDA acclerated graphics card. Footage from our EX1 edits perfectly with no lagging, as it is much less compressed than the GH1 avchd codec. From the description of your system, it sounds way underpowered to edit mpeg or avchd on CS5. The Mercury engine is great, but you need to have the horsepower to run it. You might try transcoding to a less demanding codec like ProRes LT (on a Mac) or it's PC equivelent (we use DNxHD to be compatible with our Avid system).
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hmm so what do you reccomend doing?
 
Gabrobot said:
Make sure to select a lower playback resolution if you're having performance issues. You should be able to play H264/AVC fine in real-time at a reduced resolution. Right click the playback window and go down to playback resolution and select something lower.

It sounds like you made a lower resolution sequence...this would be why your footage seems zoomed in. Instead of doing that, just use the same resolution as your footage, and reduce the resolution using the method I mentioned.
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and yeah i was playing them both back in 1/4 resolution, and the same thing happened.
 
hmm so what do you reccomend doing?
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Update your computer with a new motherboard, CPU and memory. Get at least an Intel i7 950 or i7 2500K. Get at least 12 GB of memory, more if you can afford it.
 
Jim Simon said:
Update your computer with a new motherboard, CPU and memory. Get at least an Intel i7 950 or i7 2500K. Get at least 12 GB of memory, more if you can afford it.
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would you reccomend just getting a new computer? i mean by the time i get 8 more gb of ram, a new processor and CPU, its the price of a computer.
 
I would not recommend buying a pre-built computer. Build you own. It's cheaper, and you can get exactly the parts you want.

You also don't necessarilly need a new case, or hard drives, or graphics card, or power supply. You might need some of those, depending on what you have now. But if you can reuse and save money, go for it.
 
Jim Simon said:
I would not recommend buying a pre-built computer. Build you own. It's cheaper, and you can get exactly the parts you want.

You also don't necessarilly need a new case, or hard drives, or graphics card, or power supply. You might need some of those, depending on what you have now. But if you can reuse and save money, go for it.
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alright thanks
 
1) Yeah, update your computer or just buy/build a new one. I'm not entirely familiar with that processor, but based on a brief Google search in seams like an older, slower, CPU that was entry level when it was released a few years ago. 2) Are you play back the footage from the same drive as the OS and editing software? That's going to have a big impact on playback performance, especially if it's a 5,400 RPM hard drive.
 
Mike Harvey said:
1) Yeah, update your computer or just buy/build a new one. I'm not entirely familiar with that processor, but based on a brief Google search in seams like an older, slower, CPU that was entry level when it was released a few years ago. 2) Are you play back the footage from the same drive as the OS and editing software? That's going to have a big impact on playback performance, especially if it's a 5,400 RPM hard drive.
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sorry, i didnt really understand what your asking in #2
 
Mike Harvey said:
1) Yeah, update your computer or just buy/build a new one. I'm not entirely familiar with that processor, but based on a brief Google search in seams like an older, slower, CPU that was entry level when it was released a few years ago. 2) Are you play back the footage from the same drive as the OS and editing software? That's going to have a big impact on playback performance, especially if it's a 5,400 RPM hard drive.
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yeah i most likley will have to get a new computer, i have tried everything. thanks for the help everyone, i really appreciate it.
 
new computer is right... need at least a quad core and at least 6g of ram my 3.1 amd x4 runs full resources when rendering or play back and also i have to pre render after everything i do.
 
osuman1017 said:
also, when i drag it into the sequence in the top right corner, the video is shown to be really zoomed in even know im on the "fit" setting..
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You sure you are using the correct timeline? Sounds like your timeline resolution is lower than your image resolution
 
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