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HDV footage needs rendering when captured in Adobe Premiere CS3?!!!
Hello
I work in a school and have a classroom of identical PC computers, all of a decent spec.
Each computer has Adobe Premiere CS3 installed on Windows XP.
On a couple of the computers, when I capture HDV footage and drag a clip to the timeline it needs rendering. And even when the footage is rendered, the playback stutters.
On the rest of the computers, the HDV footage captures fine and plays back without any problems. And when a clip is placed on the timeline, no rendering is required.
As I said, all the computers are identical with the same software installed.
Anybody come across anything similar?!
Tar,
Liam. -
15 Replies
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Hi Liam,
Make sure the video clips are not on the C: drive, always use a dedicated drive for video. Drive should be defragged and not too full. Right-click video drive and select “Properties” and set “Indexing” to OFF. And of course make sure Sequence settings match the footage.
Jeff Pulera
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Jeff’s right on the mark here.
The problem isn’t in PPro CS3 or the behavior would be identical for all machines.
Keep in mind that PPro looks at several factors to determine whether or not media can play in realtime on a given system. It’s not some. “Switch” that is flipped to the wrong position.
Something about the hardware environment in those problem systems is causing a clear performance handicap.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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You’re absolutely right, I’m sure the problem isn’t anything to do with Premiere Pro, but I’ll be damned if I can figure it out.
Same machines and same spec, different outcomes.
All machines have indexing turned on and use the C-drive for storing footage… and yet I still have the two different outcomes.
Tis a mystery.
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Have the harddrives been tested for relative performance?
Harddrives are manufactured with only slightly more consistency than the small plastic toys they put in cereal boxes these days.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Storing footage on the C;drive is not a good idea. Better is to have them on a seperate drive.
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Good advice. However doesn’t really explain my problem, unless you think one of my hard drives just isn’t performing as it should.
Thanks everyone for the feedback though. If I find a resolution, I;ll be sure sure to post it up.
Thanks.
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[Liam Sanderson] “However doesn’t really explain my problem, unless you think one of my hard drives just isn’t performing as it should.”
I guess I thought that was clear, yes…I wonder if your harddrives are performing in the problem systems.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Any idea how I can know for certain if my hard drives are optimised?!
They seem fine other wise.
Liam.
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Defragement the drives and make sure they are not more than 80% full
Jeff
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Are you sure that the sequence setting selections are all uniform? If the footage needs to be rendered, my first thought was that the sequence settings do not match the original footage.
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