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CS6 Premiere being slow when playing through timeline with my freshly built 8 core pc?
I recently built a nice new computer thinking it would be able to chug through video no problem. I got a bulldozer FX 8150 eight core processor, and 16gb of ram (still running my old 8800gts video card though)I’m running a practically fresh windows 7 x64 and fully updated everything.
In premiere I have loaded up raw 1080p .mov footage from my t3i. I don’t have any video effects on the clips themselves just audio and some dissolve transitions. No other programs are running. My best guess is that my video card isn’t powerful enough although that still doesn’t make sense since its still a pretty powerful card.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
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Hi Steven,
The graphics card plays a big part in Premiere performance. You’ll want to use a new card that will enable the “GPU Acceleration” in the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine. The 8800 card is a weak link in your system.
Adobe has a short list of “approved cards” that work here: https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html
Many other Nvidia cards can be made to work with a simple fix, described here: https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm
Also, be sure you have a dedicated hard drive for your videos. Don’t put them on the C: drive. A 7200rpm SATA drive is recommended, and don’t get the “Green” drives, they are for power savings. You want a performance model like WD Caviar Black or Seagate Barracuda.
Update that display card and you should be happy with performance then.
Jeff Pulera
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Most often if its playing not in realtime your throughput is just not enough.
a RAID setup of some kind is pretty much required if you want smooth consistent playback.
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Well, we run a simple Dell XEON Workstation i7 64 bit Quad Core 12MB Ram @2.27 Ghz and Raid 0, 1Tb Hard drives at 15,000 rpm and a Nvidia Quadro FX 3800 for the Mercury Engine in CS5.5.2 ; on H.264mov clips at 1920 x 1080 p and even without running it, it is very, very fast. Jeff and Chris are worth listening to.
Good luck !
Ps. I hate to say it, but trial Sony Vegas Pro 11 or even Platinum and it is still a tad faster running in 32 bit software ? But, we have been with Premiere Pro since the beginning with PP 1.5.1 HDV/mpeg-2 and I still like using it.
Freelance Imaging & Video
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[Jeff Pulera] “d hard drive for your videos. Don’t put them on the C: drive. A 7200rpm SATA drive is recommended, and do”
thanks jeff, I assumed 8800gt was more than enough for basic 1080p editing, apparently not though. Alright onto searching for a good deal on a new card!
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