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  • Lag Moving Clips on Timeline in Premiere

    Posted by Chris Holland on July 15, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    HI,

    I am running Premiere CS5 on a MAC with an ATi Radeon 5770 HD 1GB graphics card and a KonaLhi card and am having an issue I have never seen before using this setup.

    Basically whenever i try to drag clips around in the timeline I get serious lag. Oftentimes the clips won’t move when I drag them or will jump around to different layers as if I still have the left mouse button pressed and still have hold of the clip.

    I am using a Bluetooth mouse so maybe this could be the issue ?

    Has anyone seen this issue and if so do you know a workaround ?

    Thanks.

    Chris

    Chris Holland
    Editor/Animation/Design
    hollandedit.com

    Chris Holland replied 14 years, 6 months ago 7 Members · 11 Replies
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  • Nathan Bezner

    July 15, 2011 at 4:02 pm

    I was having a similar issue (when selecting all clips it would take about five seconds for Premiere to recognize that I was doing anything at all). My solution was to close the metadata panel, then everything worked fine. I’m not sure if that helps at all, just my personal experience.

    -N

    -N

  • Chris Holland

    July 15, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    Thanks for the feedback. I dont’ even have the METADATA panel open so it’s not that for me.

    I posted the same thing in the Premiere forum and it looks like it’s a known issue.

    IMO, tough thing to have happen when you are trying to get the FCP base to switch over.

    Thanks again.

    Chris Holland
    Editor/Animation/Design
    hollandedit.com

  • Mark Crews

    July 18, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    I am having a lot of the same issues. Everytime I try to play the timeline the Aja card breaks sync and then comes back on…

    I am looking to switch out of FCP and I need this to work….

  • Robert Brown

    July 20, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    I think this is one of the most important things Adobe has to figure out. The reliability of playback just isn’t there yet. Sometimes I render a sequence and play it back and the first time I play it it skips badly but I play it again and it’s ok like it has to get cached into ram or something.

    Also I think there needs to be a force render, unless there is and I haven’t found it. I’ve had times where I had 3 layers and PPro thought it could do it in real time but couldn’t. Maybe the disk couldn’t read the video fast enough but it wouldn’t play back without skipping and also refused to render it.

  • Tom Daigon

    July 20, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    Robert, if you hit the Return key, it will render if it thinks it is necessary, then it will playback from the top of the sequence.

    Tom Daigon
    Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
    http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

  • David Cherniack

    July 21, 2011 at 2:08 am

    [Robert Brown] “Also I think there needs to be a force render,”

    There is. In the sequence menu. Render Work Area. Mine’s set to Ctl Enter but it’s a definable keystoke.

    I’ve observed that a lot of you FCP-ers are making premature assumptions about what PrPro can and can’t do…without fully familiarizing yourself with the software. Like any other NLE it’s a deep program that takes time to learn. I still discover new things after 6 years. So hold back on the conclusion leaping and ask, don’t assume.

    David
    AllinOneFilms.com

  • Robert Brown

    July 21, 2011 at 2:50 am

    [David Cherniack] “There is. In the sequence menu. Render Work Area. Mine’s set to Ctl Enter but it’s a definable keystoke.

    I’ve observed that a lot of you FCP-ers are making premature assumptions about what PrPro can and can’t do…without fully familiarizing yourself with the software. Like any other NLE it’s a deep program that takes time to learn. I still discover new things after 6 years. So hold back on the conclusion leaping and ask, don’t assume.

    Thanks but I know about render work area and what I’m seeing is still the same. There seem to be conditions were PPro thinks it doesn’t need to render and so doesn’t even if you tell it to. I go into
    sequence, hit render work area and it does nothing as there is a yellow bar and it cannot play the
    comp in real time. Yes people can jump to conclusions but it can go both ways.

    And BTW FCP has this exact same issue where sometimes it won’t render no matter what you do unless you add a plugin.

  • David Cherniack

    July 21, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    [Robert Brown] “Thanks but I know about render work area and what I’m seeing is still the same. There seem to be conditions were PPro thinks it doesn’t need to render and so doesn’t even if you tell it to. I go into
    sequence, hit render work area and it does nothing as there is a yellow bar and it cannot play the
    comp in real time. Yes people can jump to conclusions but it can go both ways.”

    I’ve never encountered that. A yellow bar has always rendered for me when I hit Ctl-Enter. What effects have you applied that are not playing in real time? What’s your h/w configuration?

    David
    AllinOneFilms.com

  • Robert Brown

    July 21, 2011 at 2:31 pm

    12 Core Mac, 10.6.8, PPro 5.5, 8GB, GTX 285. I did not try the exact hot key you described as I use FCP keys. I did try it from the sequence menu. I guess I could try loading up default keys and trying that exact combination just to be sure I’m not missing something.

  • Javi Aledo

    October 20, 2011 at 8:56 am

    I’ve the same problem:
    https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/217/1736

    Any solution?

    CG, Music, Photography, Programming…
    https://www.JaviAledo.com

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