I have a pretty high spec PC but editing 4k in premiere is struggling.

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi David,

Is Mercury GPU Hardware Rendering enabled? Have you tried setting the Program Monitor resolution to 1/2?

Your PC specs certainly look more than adequate! Which version of Premiere?

In general, when using any card-based format in Premiere, make sure to copy the entire contents of the card to a folder on your hard drive, keeping entire folder structure intact. There is “metadata” which is crucial to Premiere located inside. Then import into Premiere using “Media Browser” rather than “File > Import”. I’ve seen this improve playback for AVCHD and such, maybe it will help you if not already doing this.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Alex Udell]

Hi….

the overall cpu spec is quite good.

RAW 4k sounds like you drives won’t keep up with that.

When you say .mov, what codec?

How is the RAID attached to your system?

My guess is that the data rate is too high for a 2 drive array.

You might flip the footage to GoProCienform, ProRes, or DNXHD, to reduce the demand on your drives and it’s connection to your CPU.

hth,

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[Tim Kolb]

I think Alex is thinking the same way I am…those two 6 TB drives may be the bottleneck.

RAW will certainly tax a processor, but depending on what the format of the .mov files are, they may be quite large…

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