edit Canon 5D footage natively in PP CS6 on Macbook Pro?

[Tom Daigon]

Run that little AJA utility I sent you a link to to, see how your raid is performing. And I never heard how full it was. 😀

Maybeyou can play those clips without their audio tracks since there was nothing on the one you sent me.

Good luck.

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxPrG3WUyz8
(Best viewed at 1080P and full screen)
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid

[Danielle Smit]

Hey, sorry, missed that part of your post.
Ok, I ran the utility and it came out as:
write: 524.3 mb/s
read: 659.2 mb/s

The disk has 500 GB available

yes, the audio recording is a mistake on the videographer’s part, but it doesn’t matter, if I play it without the audio track, it still freezes.

🙁 not helpful I take it..

[Tom Daigon]

Well your playback ppeed is good. But your raid is really full. Only 500GB left in a 6TB system is quite full. But the utility says you have good speed.

Can you archive and delete any stuff on the raid. Its a long shot, but thats all I got at this point. Sorry. 🙁

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxPrG3WUyz8
(Best viewed at 1080P and full screen)
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Danielle,

Sorry if I missed if you said this already in one of your post, but have you tried playing the media off of your internal drive? Same behavior?

Thanks,

Peter Garaway
Adobe, Premiere Pro QE

[Angie Bee]

I had this very same issue when I first switched to Premiere. First of all – well done! It’s a hard switch, but well worth the payoff in the end. What seemed to clear it up for me was changing the audio scratch disks and putting them in a separate folder to the video scratch disks. (but all inside your premiere folder, inside your project folder) So this is how my file structure goes (on mac):

Username
Film-*whatever the month is*
Project Name
Premiere
(Premiere Video Renders) (Premiere Audio Renders)

Hope this helps – it sure worked for me.

Angie Bee

[Danielle Smit]

Thanks Peter and Angie for your suggestions.

First I changed the audio and video scratch disk per your suggestion.
It seemed to really make a difference at first, I was able to play the ‘bad’ clips for about 5 minutes before it started to freeze. But maybe that is just because my machine was ‘fresh’ at the start of the day.

Playing a clip from my local drive was significantly worse.

So the problems persists… I was able to test a bit since I got a full 5 minutes this time. When I play the clip at 1/2 resolution it has a lot of artifacts, which the ‘good’ clips do not. Also, even though it was playing without freezing, if I move the playhead to another position it takes almost a full second for the frame to refresh, while it refreshes it still shows the frame where the playhead was before I moved it. This also does not happen on the ‘good’ clips.

Thats all I got, anybody else have any suggestions I would appreciate it!

Again, the clips are all taken on the same day, in the same place, with the same camera (5D). The only difference is that the ‘bad’ clips have audio. (Perhaps there was a different in-camera setting, I wasn’t there so I don’t know and I am hesitant to ask the videographer.)
Tom was unable to replicate my problem, but my system otherwise seems fine…
The one thing I have not tried is a complete uninstall and reinstall of PPCS6

[Gary Huff]

Danielle, try turning off Mecury Playback Engine (GPU) and switch it to software mode (in Sequence Settings I believe) and then report back if that solves your issue.

[Danielle Smit]

Hi,
nope.. that was one of the first things I tried. I fixes it for a little while (a minute or so) but it doesnt make a difference.

[Gary Huff]

Ah, I see that, it was written as CPU instead of GPU, so I didn’t pick up on the fact that you had tried it.

Did you restart Premiere and/or your Mac after changing that setting?

[Danielle Smit]

Oh sorry typo
Yes Ii did