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New system, yet not able to see much improvement!
All,
I am very very frustrated. Just bought a new system, put together myself with the following, yet, when adding transition, it is still slow mo! Why?CPU: i7 3.5 GHz
RAM: 16G DDR3
GPU: GT240 (unlocked so PPro 5.03 recognizes as CUDA card)
Win7 Pro 64bits
Plenty of HDD (200G+ 150G + 50G free spaces…)HELP!!
Thanks.
The only thing I have not done is reinstall from scratch. I simply let windows find all the updates and then, it starts working.
Perry
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8 Replies
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Hi Perry,
Did you do a performance check on the machine?
Even the Windows test will tell you if there’s a issue somewhere in the pipeline.
Did you use the old hard drive? If so, absolutely wipe everything out and start over either way.
CUDA is not a cure all though, and only certain transitions are supported. And then there’s drive speed. Remember, Premiere pulls 2 pieces of footage at once during a transition, on top of any other footage being played, doubling or tripling the data rate.
Vince Becquiot
Indigo Live
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Vincent, thank you. I only use cross dissolve, and it crawls if I add 2 layers of this. I reinstall the system last night and it is showing the same. Even worse, probably becuase I haven’t update PPro to 5.03? These are AVCHD footages. Hmmm…. Just very very disappointed with i7 so far. Any other thoughts?
Perry
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Yes you need to update to the latest version.
Also turn off GPU hardware see if that makes a difference.———————————————–
Adobe Certified Expert Premiere Pro
Adobe Community Professional -
Hi Perry,
What is your hard drive setup? Free sizes seem small. You should at minimum have a dedicated drive just for video clips. Should be less than 80% full and of course defragmented. Turn off INDEXING on the video drive.
You say you built your own system. Did you go to the motherboard vendor site and download/install the specific hardware drivers, or just let Windows install generic stuff? For best performance, install any specific hardware drivers offered by motherboard vendor.
When importing AVCHD footage, use the MEDIA BROWSER in Premiere to find/import clips, rather than just Importing.
Jeff Pulera
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The gt240 is pretty old & wasn’t a real speed demon when new so I don’t know why you put that in a new build, at minimum I would put in a gtx285(if you have an adequate power supply). Do you have a GDDR5 version or GDDR3 version? If you have to use a gt240 a GDDR5 version would be recommended for that card.
Your hard drive situation sounds iffy too, using the tail end of a drive for projects when it only has 50-100gb left could be causing slowdowns. Drives are cheap, put a couple fresh 500gb or 1tb in there.
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Yes, I did update and it does improve but still, only with 2 layers, one adjust the opacity to 50% (top) and the bottom layer with one simple cross dissolve… it just crawls! Is this normal? The source is AVCHD.
Sincerely,
Perry -
What is your hard drive setup? Free sizes seem small. You should at minimum have a dedicated drive just for video clips. Should be less than 80% full and of course defragmented. Turn off INDEXING on the video drive.
>> I will try turning off indexing in this drive. I am just simply previewing and it crawls.You say you built your own system. Did you go to the motherboard vendor site and download/install the specific hardware drivers, or just let Windows install generic stuff? For best performance, install any specific hardware drivers offered by motherboard vendor.
>> I was hoping to be able to keep my previous hardware without buying everything, but I ended up buying almost everything now… man, if I have to buy a Video Card, I might as well not upgrade my cpu, because I really haven’t seen that much improvement from my Q6600 to this i7 as far as preview, rendering seems faster, but not really that much faster…When importing AVCHD footage, use the MEDIA BROWSER in Premiere to find/import clips, rather than just Importing.
>> Really, this make a difference? It does not make sense to me. but, thanks anyway.Sincerely,
Perry -
The gt240 is pretty old & wasn’t a real speed demon when new so I don’t know why you put that in a new build, at minimum I would put in a gtx285(if you have an adequate power supply). Do you have a GDDR5 version or GDDR3 version? If you have to use a gt240 a GDDR5 version would be recommended for that card.
>> It is a GT240 DDR5Your hard drive situation sounds iffy too, using the tail end of a drive for projects when it only has 50-100gb left could be causing slowdowns. Drives are cheap, put a couple fresh 500gb or 1tb in there.
>> I have multiple drives, I usually free up the Video Drive (500G). Tell me how would you setup these drives? RAID? Preview Video and Preview Audio on same or different drive?Thanks,
Perry
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