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Choppy video in preview
I am trying to edit some HD video, but cannot get a clear playback in Premiere. The audio works fine, but the video is choppy. I can play the videos fine in VLC with no problems.
Is there a setting I am missing to make the preview run smoothly?
My computer resources are:
Quad Core processor
6gb Ram
Vista 64
Nvidia Geforce 9400 Gt 1gb graphics card
500 gb HD (15gb free)I am pretty sure I have the resources to view/edit the video, so I am not sure what is wrong.. Thanks
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Is it still choppy in automatic quality preview?
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Your resources seem to be okay, the only issue is that you are using Vista, which in my experience is a horrible system to edit HD video on. Unfortunately in order to get enough RAM you have to use it.
Do also note that Premiere has to log HD video once you import it, which may take a few minutes, even for a short clip. If you are trying to preview it right after you open it you may have to wait.
Try this. Open your project and drag the timeline slider to the middle. Walk away for 15 minutes and come back. Play with the slider and then see if it will play without lag. If it still doesn’t play then you have something hogging your resources, which is vista’s nature.
These issues are why I switched to Mac!
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