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Premiere on a MacBook Pro – ugh!
Day to day I edit using FCPX on a top spec 2015 MacBook Pro, very happy with the speed I get with XAVC material shot on FS7 and FS5’s, I also use a lot of library material which is mostly .h264 – never have any speed problems at all.
Last couple of weeks I’ve been forced back to editing on Premiere Pro and I’m genuinely shocked by how slow the performance is, even scaling down to 1/4 or 1/8th res I don’t get great playback at all, have Adobe not caught up yet?
Apart from the performance I don’t mind the interface and how it works but it looks like it needs a much more powerful machine to make it perform properly – has anyone else found this?
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Yep. Media performance on a laptop once you get above HD – and with a taxing codec – challenges Premiere Pro. I have the mid-2014 model (similar to yours, but with the last Nvidia cards) and FCPX definitely performs better on that machine with type of media. However, I’m currently cutting some C100 H264 HD stuff on Premiere on that machine (native media, multicam, color correction), and it’s very smooth. Generally HD ProRes is also very easy in Premiere on that MBP.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Are you sure you have Open CL chosen as your renderer and not set to Software? That would also do it!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
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[Rich Rubasch] “Are you sure you have Open CL chosen as your renderer and not set to Software? That would also do it!”
That should only affect basic effects that use GPU power and rendering. It *shouldn’t* affect regular media playback of the timeline or browser clips. It’s those function where Premiere will stutter and not show full frame rate on that vintage of a machine with media higher than HD. In my experience, FCPX will do just fine with the same type of media.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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MPE still assists during playback. The extent depends on the codec. Just tested with XDCAM and XAVC-S, GPU load was significantly higher under OpenCL vs software only.
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You simply cannot get efficient performance in Premiere when using H264 media. Use a proxy workflow and Premiere will work like butter on a laptop.
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Funny this came up.
I’m doing an assembly on a feature shot with 6K RED HELIUM.
In Avid, Resolve, and Premiere these files are a beast.
But in FCPX (the only app that can sync audio consistently) its freaking butter ????
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I’m now editing a project shot on Venice using X-OCN codec, would love to do this natively in FCPX rather than Resolve or PPro ☺
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[Steve Connor] “Venice using X-OCN codec”
Would it be easier for you to use the built-in Adobe proxy workflow? Or would the transcode be too slow/taxing on your MBP?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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BTW – why are you being “forced” to use Premiere Pro on this project?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Oliver Peters] “BTW – why are you being “forced” to use Premiere Pro on this project?”
Project is being “led” by a graphic designer who only uses Adobe and insists on me using it too!
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