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PPro CS4 – no desktop playback when exporting to DV via firewire
Greetings. I’m having a weird problem with PPRO CS4. I did search, but didn’t find the same problem listed anywhere.
Machine specs:
AMD Phenon 9600 Quad core CPU @ 2.31 GHz
8 GB of memory
Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT
Windows 7 64 bit OSI’ve been using Premiere since version 5, I believe, and one feature I’ve always used was outputting to a production monitor. I use a Sony GV-D1000 mini-dv playback deck connected via firewire to capture from and output to. The S-video output from that deck is connected to a Sony PVM-14M2U monitor.
The weird thing (that’s never happened before) is that I can’t get playback to happen through the firewire deck AND the program window in premiere at the same time. It’s one or the other.
In ‘Playback Settings’ under ‘realtime playback’ I’ve enabled the “Desktop video display during playback” option, and have the External Device set to “DV 29.97 720x480i” (what sends signal to the DV deck in the first place). When I do that, the DV deck gets the signal and then sends it to the Sony monitor as it should, but the desktop program window freezes. If I scrub through the timeline, both outputs are working, until I hit play.
Until about a month ago this was a Vista 64 bit system and had the same problem. I did a full wipe and format when I switched to 7, so it’s a fresh install.
This isn’t any sort of deal breaker, just something I was used to having that no longer works. The weakest part in the system is probably the video card, could that be limiting the performance? It doesn’t matter whether the quality is set to draft, auto, or highest. If I’m sending signal to the external device, I get no desktop playback.
Capture works perfectly, by the way.
Any help or insight would be appreciated.
Thanks!!!!
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I’m also using Windows 7 64-bit, but with a Core i7 processor and an Nvidia 9800GT display adapter – and having the same problem.
I also run Premiere Pro CS3 on the same machine along with After Effects CS4. The problem doesn’t occur with either of these applications – only Premiere Pro CS4.
I also reported the problem to Adobe. No response yet.
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Sounds like video card driver version issue… The latest might not be the one that works on your system the best. 64bot drivers are a little funky so thereight some
searching online about last known working drivers with your cards.
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I will try that today, thanks for the suggestion.
Also, I’m glad I’m not the only one.
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I did some checking and noticed that Nvidia has new drivers for this card at:
https://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_195.62_whql.html
Windows claims my current driver is up to date, but it was released 9/2009 while the new drivers were released at the end of 11/2009.
I don’t have time today to test them but will post here after I do.
Cheers
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I’m still working with Adobe Tech support on this, but here’s a little more information and a workaround that might help.
First off, I updated the video drivers which didn’t address the problem.
However, I found that if you select “external device audio” instead of “desktop audio” in the Program Monitor Playback Settings dialog box, video will play correctly on the desktop AND the external device. (Of course it also disables audio playback from your computer – so it’s not a perfect fix.)
Hope this helps.
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Finally fixed it. I resorted to reinstalling the application and that cured all.
Peace –
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