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CS4, Windows 7, 4GB ram, and it is slow….
I just recently upgraded to Windows 7
Anyway, my issue is slow/choppy playback and rendering problems.
I do something as simple as change the speed to 33% and it won’t render a clip, there is no rhyme or reason to it, it just happens whenever is convient for adobe to drive me insane. Sometimes i’ll have a clip with a mild effect like a sapphire plug in added to a clip and it just f*cks up the clip and will freeze for part of it.
I don’t know what is wrong, but I thought actually having 4gb of ram and windows 7 combined with cs4 would make a difference but it’s bringing back bad memories from version 6.5
I’m need to move forward with my editing career and need good solid working and FAST programs and hardware to do it.
My comp is a xeon dual core 3ghz processor, 4gb ram ,raid-0 just for a basic idea of what i’m working with. I did do a full install of windows 7, maybe i screwed up the Raid-0 setup….
any ideas?
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[tyler smith] “bringing back bad memories from version 6.5”
6.5 was a stable version for most.
Check Device Manager and the driver for your Display Adapter. If you did not install Windows 7 drivers for it, Windows might have installed generic VGA drivers. I have installed 7 on one PC that it happened and it could not play back video smoothly in any app. AND there is no driver available!!!
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[tyler smith] “I’m need to move forward with my editing career and need good solid working and FAST programs and hardware to do it.
My comp is a xeon dual core 3ghz processor, 4gb ram ,raid-0”Depends on what kind of footage you are using, you didn’t mention that. also win 7 32 or 64? also do you have other disks than the raid 0?? also is this a single dual 3ghz xeon??
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drivers are up to speed, single dual core 3ghz, footage and assets are stored in an external.
I did some editing this evening and everything is running smoothly, no more issues with the rendering, dissolves are slighlty choppy but way better than before….i’ll see how it goes from here.
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I’ve seen this problem before when the assets were stored on an external drive which was connected via USB. USB may not be able to deliver the data fast enough for steady playback.
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Still did not mention what kind of footage it is.
When its AVCHD your pc is out of date for this kind of footage. -
I’d agree with what’s been said here…
2 cores at 3 GHz was powerful some time ago.
You say you’re on Windows 7…32 bit?
TimK,
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windows 7 64bit
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Now would a bit of a ram boost make a difference? Say I add 4gb of ram to bring the total to 8gb….would it help speed up premiere cs4, or would adding another dual-core xeon 3ghz processor give me a significant boost, or should i just find a quad core processor to replace the dual-core?
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Hi!
Your problem is USB drives, probably!
I was very dissapointed when I saw 20 of USB drives in use when I come to be director/postproduction manager in one studio.
I immidiately get rid of this drives, and make internal RADI 5 arrays on all workstations. Now it is working like a dream.
Also, keep your video drivers up to date, and install CS4 updates for Premiere and MEdia encoder….
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I’m with slobodan… your biggest bottleneck sounds more like your HD’s are not cutting the mustered…(or, could be a video card driver that is not compatible with Win7).
If you are editing HD you really should be using at least a Quad Core mobo with as much low latency RAM as you can afford (using 64bit) if you composite a lot of video.
If you want to speed up render speed and avoid of a lot of problems… you need to use a dual raid system such as two Raid 0 setups (using 4 hard drives – 1 raid for scratch, 1 for OS) to help speed up rendering signficantly.
The last I looked, the fastest HD’s are running at about 15K rmp on e-sata drives. And, the lowest cost and best raid controller is an Adaptec. That combo makes for a pretty fast hard drive raid setup.
A system like this can cost some money… but, you would see a significant increase in productivity.
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