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Advice for HD editing on a high end computer
I just upgraded my computer and I am not getting the best performance with HD editing that I feel I should. I have crossfired Raedon 5870s (1 gig each) video cards, 8 gigs of ram, and a 4.0 GHz processor. I have a 2 hour long raw 720p hd video clip. Its an mpeg4. I imported it and when I double click it and try to scrub through it to pull clips its really slow and choppy. This shouldnt be the case with a pc of this quality right? I am wondering if there are settings that I can change to fix this. I changed the optimize rendering setting to memory and I allocated 6.5 gigs of RAM to premiere but that didnt seem to help. I am using CS5. Thanks.
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What is the drive you are using to store video clips?
Also, MPEG4 is not really so good as an editing format. I’d suggest converting to something more edit-friendly. You can get the Avid DNxHD codecs for free; that might help.
I’m sure there are other suggestions… anyone?-Jeff
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My drive is a 1TB internal SATA drive.
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