• Adobe Premiere Pro

  quick project settings question

  Posted by Matt Morrison on February 11, 2010 at 3:58 pm

  I’m running Premiere CS4 with a blackmagic card and I recently upgraded to their 7.5 drivers and since then I’ve had major performance problems with my system. I can capture just fine, but when I try to play back my footage I get drop frame warnings in Premiere stopping all playback in the timeline (on both rendered projects and raw footage) and if I export to tape the footage is jerky. I am just working with uncompressed SD footage and I don’t think this is hardware related at all since everything worked with the last driver set, but here’s my hardware list just in case someone wants to know:

  Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition Bloomfield 3.33GHz
  GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 LGA (motherboard)
  Western Digital Caviar Blue 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (system drive)
  Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb x4 (RAID drives)
  3ware 9650SE-4LPML KIT PCI Express Lanes: 4 SATA II Controller Card (RAID Controller – with everything set to maximum performance)
  Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (Cache Drive)
  EVGA 01G-P3-N981-TR GeForce 9800 GT 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 (video card)
  OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (system memory)
  Thermaltake Toughpower W0178RU 850W (power supply)
  Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
  Decklink Studio

  speedtest for the raid – https://www.hallssalvage.com/raidspeed.gif
  speedtest for the cache – https://www.hallssalvage.com/cachespeed.gif

  Both of these drives are relatively empty too and everything is pretty much running the latest drivers/updates.

  I am assuming that the drivers altered some setting in Premiere but I’ve gone over everything and can’t seem to find the problem. Is there a list of all the settings I should have in place for my projects to get maximum performance out of my system?

  Matt Morrison replied 16 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  February 11, 2010 at 5:46 pm

  Well, you are not the only one. I don’t have a Blackmagic card, but a couple of people have asked me about it.

  I believe there is a setting in the Blackmagic prefs that can be set to ignore dropped frames, that’s all I can tell you unfortunately.

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Matt Morrison

  February 11, 2010 at 6:22 pm

  That one is actually in the Squence settings… and unfortunately I’ve already tried it, but thanks! I still think there is some other setting in Premiere I am missing, but at this point I am ready to just give up and reinstall everything. This is what I get for updating 🙂

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