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How should I change my computer increase efficiency in Adobe Premiere?
So I recently got a laptop and I want to run CS6 on it. I’m a beginner to premiere but I do notice some problems occurring when I try to edit a simple 2 minute video. It says “Media Pending” for a really long time. And when the message goes away I try to play it back the screen either goes red or the video freezes (but the audio doesn’t). Also, when I tried to export a 30 second video it took more than 35 minutes!
I mean, there don’t seem to be any other problems. Like, the program opens up very quickly and there never is any “rainbow spinning ball of doom”.I’m guessing that there is a problem with my computer set up…could you tell me what I could change to make this program work better? External hard drive? Oh, and I’m a beginner…so dumbed down answers would be really helpful.
My computer:
Macbook Pro Retina ’13
2.6 GHz intel core i5 processor
8 GB 16000 MHz DDR3 memoryI’m using a canon vixia hfm40
Thank you so much for reading this 🙂
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A few thoughts…
1) Yes, an external drive would be helpful, but based on your description, I doubt it’s the main source of your problem.
2) When you play back the media, are you doing so from the source window or the timeline sequence? If from the timeline, make sure that the sequence settings match the video clip. The easiest way to do this is to create a new sequence (don’t worry about the setting for now) and drag the clip onto it. When you do so, Premiere should give you a warning that the sequence doesn’t match the clip and it will offer to change the sequence to match the clip. Click yes.
FYI: If there’s already another video clip on the timeline, it will not give you that notice/warning. Because Premiere allows you to have different formats/frame rates/etc on a timeline, it assumes that you know what sequence setting you want and will not offer to switch every time you add a new/different clip format.
There are several other possibilities, but I’d start there…
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