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Delay in playback monitor
I am using Premiere 2 on an XP box that is definitely specked well over the requirements. Intermitantly I get about a 4 second delay when either clicking play in the monitor or spacebar on the timeline. I’ve read through a lot of information on this and have tweaked my XP memory allocation, un-installed and re-installed PP2, defragmented the hard drive, etc. This happens to both projects on my local hard drive as well as projects on my external hard drives. Funny thing is when i remove the external hard drives I am able to work with no problems on my laptop which certainly does not have the same power as my workstation. Of course i’m using the same project file that was not working on my desktop.
this is torturing me, really appreciate any help on this. Thanks
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Premiere doesn’t like external drives like USB or Firewire even if not used with the project but listed in the preferences can cause problems.
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Blast is probably right about that, I do use external hard drives quite often when I’m on a laptop. External SATA drives are the way to go, but a nice buffer size should solve that issue, do you happen to know what it is on your drive?
I have an external IDE drive with a 32 MB buffer and no problems of that sort, the render time are actually about the same as well.
Vince
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Check your color space choice in playback settings in the general project settings window. You may need to change the color space from BT.709 to 601. This worked for me. It was driving me crazy until I found it in the PP 2.0 book. Lar
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thanks for the tip but I can’t find out how to change the color space as you specified. I’m using Premiere Pro 2.0 but for the life of me can’t find anywhere to make the change in the general project menus or anywhere else. Any more specific directions would be greatly appreciated. thanks
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Onroad- I am using the Aspect HD plug in from Cineform within PremierePro 2.0. Under the project menu go to project settings general, then click the playback settings button. The 3rd option from the top is use colorspace BT.709. Unclicking this will revert to Colorspace 601. As soon as I did this, it eliminated that 3-4 second lag when hitting the space bar to run the timeline. Are you doing HD editing or SD? If you’re not running Aspect HD, this option is probably not available. I’ll check to see if you can change this setting without the plug-in and get back to you. Larry1
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Thanks Larry – I do not have that option so I’m assuming it’s due to Aspect HD.
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