• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Laggy multi-cam playback for DV footage in CS4

  Posted by Ty Yachaina on June 12, 2010 at 8:57 pm

  Hello all,

  this has been a problem i’ve been having in premeire for a little while now. I have a decent editing machiene, Vista 64 bit, 8 gigs of ram, Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT and production studio CS4.

  When im editing a DV multi-cam sequence, a little into playback i get real choppy results, thats very hard to edit off of. Playback of the edited sequence is fine, but just the multi-cam monitor is going haywire with 3-4 clips in it.

  I mean, its DV, so im not sure why this is happening. the monitor is set to high quality. Is there any workaround to this that anyone has found? Or, is anyone else even having this problem?

  The only thing i can think of is i am editing off an external USB 2.0 drive, which, defiently probably would explain it, but still…

  Any advice would be helpfull, thanks..

  Vince Becquiot replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Vince Becquiot

  June 13, 2010 at 3:20 am

  Hi Tyle,

  Remember that when you edit multicam, you are pulling multiple files from a drive at once. In some cases, you may actually need a RAID array, but a 7200 eSata or internal drive is definitely needed at the minimum.

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area

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