Even with OS on SDD, The video lags severely.

[Paul Neumann]

What kind of footage? Format, resolution and from what camera? And what are the external hard drive specs?

[Dalton Pope]

Sony F-65 Footage (Cineraw Lite), 4k .MXL files. The external Hard drive is a WD Blue 2.0tb HDD. In my old computer everything ran well. Even woth two graphics cards, it is still very slow unless if I put the footage on the OS drive.

[Greg Janza]

If your WD Blue is a single drive then that’s your problem. 4k files don’t play smoothly from a single drive. You need a raid or ssd.

Windows 10 Pro | i7-5820k CPU | NvidiaGeForceGTX970 | Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Monitor |
Adobe CC 2018 |Renders/cache: Samsung SSD 950 Pro x2 in Raid 0 | Media: Samsung SSD 960 PRO PCIe NVMe M.2 2280 | Media: OWC Thunderbay 4 x 2 Raid 0 mirrored with FreeFileSync

[Ann Bens]

Might want to consider using proxies.
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/proxy-workflow.html

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[Dalton Pope]

I tried Proxies, but I get the same result. I even tried to edit 720p footage and it still lags severely. Another problem that just occured is that I transfered almost 1tb full of data to my ssd and only one file was on the ssd and everything else was deleted?.. This is making me upset. ugh.. any other help?

[Greg Janza]

If you can’t even use proxies then it’s obvious that your system isn’t tuned correctly.

Use Bill Gehrke’s system test to determine where your problems are located:

https://ppbm8.com/index.html

Windows 10 Pro | i7-5820k CPU | NvidiaGeForceGTX970 | Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Monitor |
Adobe CC 2018 |Renders/cache: Samsung SSD 950 Pro x2 in Raid 0 | Media: Samsung SSD 960 PRO PCIe NVMe M.2 2280 | Media: OWC Thunderbay 4 x 2 Raid 0 mirrored with FreeFileSync

[Jeff Pulera]

WD Black is preferred for video work, with 7200rpm and 64mb cache. Probably using 5400rpm and 32mb cache on the Blue. Even then, you should go with a RAID as suggested for improved performance, but that is still no guarantee that the PC/Premiere can decode the 4K footage smoothly on the fly and you may need to use that proxy workflow.

What is the data rate of your clips? Should be listed as mbps.

At a minimum, you’d want a 2-drive desktop RAID such as G-Tech G-RAID, LaCie 2Big, or Glyph StudioRAID. Moving up to a 4-drive RAID is even better, and then allows for RAID 5 (redundant) mode to protect data, versus RAID 0 of 2-drive models which is not protected from drive failure.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Paul Neumann]

Was the result using proxies the same as the raw footage? If so, I’m willing to bet you weren’t actually using the proxies.

[Dalton Pope]

I did use proxies. I made them through Media Encoder and enabled them in premiere. This whole thing is so weird. Everything lags. It is only when I have all the raw footage on the os drive everything works. Its like it is super slow coming from the HDD. My old computer (HP Omen 12gb ram, 4 core processor, One ssd, one HDD, GeForce GTX 1060 3GB) was way faster and had no lag at all. Ugh this is fustrating.

[Paul Neumann]

So everything seems to be pointing to a problem with the drive your footage is on. Can you test it on another machine? It may just be a bad cable. I’ve had that happen more than once. Your computer seems plenty beefy enough for this task.