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Dropping Frames in Premiere CS6…driving me insane…
Hey guys it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted here. Here’s my problem.
I’m running Premiere Pro CS6 on a 2010 Mac Pro (2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 6GB 1066 DDR3 RAM)
I’m working on an extremely basic project, just run-of-the-mill DSLR footage (not transcoded) with Magic Bullet Looks applied. However, I cannot seem to play the footage, even though its fully rendered, in the timeline without it skipping and stuttering. The audio plays just fine all the way through, but the video lags up really hard. Premiere’s little dropped frame indicator turns yellow when this happens too. I’ve also tried playing back at 1/2 and 1/4 resolution, but that doesn’t do anything.
Is this some kind of hardrive bottleneck I’m dealing with here? That’s the only explanation I can seem to come up with. My specs are more then enough to handle what I’m doing. Help!
Thanks!
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5 Replies
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What kin of raid are you playing the clip back from. If you are just playing from the system disk, theres your bottleneck.
Tom Daigon
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64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid -
Ahh okay. I am in fact playing off my system disk. I guess that’s the problem! This never happened with FCP7 though. I suppose it’s time to invest in a RAID setup. I’ve been putting it off for far too long.
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I think 6GB of RAM is a bit low. I recommend at least 12. RAM is cheap nowadays.
Dennis
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Hi there, thanks for choosing Adobe Premiere Pro.
I think you’ve got a couple of issues going on here. First, as you mentioned, you’re playing off your system drive which is definitely going to slow you down. Second, as another Dennis pointed out, you’re a bit low on RAM. Seriously, a small investment in RAM will give a HUGE return on performance and stability. Thirdly, using MBL while fantastic for what it is, does slow performance down significantly inside of Premiere Pro. THis is because it is NOT GPU accelerated like many of the Premiere effects and therefore bottles up your CPU performance. This cascades back to your RAM and hence dropped frames.
One tip to consider is to pull down your playback resolution which you can find in the program monitor. If you see where it says ‘full’, you can select ‘1/2’ and see if that helps your playback performance.
Hope this helps,
Dennis – Adobe guy -
In addition to all that´s said, your yellow lines mean that the footage could play fine, but there could happen this lags in previews unless you render all the work area. Go to Sequence->render all timeline, because if you´re rendering it with the Enter shortcut, Premiere is not rendering the entire work area, only effects.
Regards
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