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Multi-Camera unusably slow on my fast computer…
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Try undocking the panel (select from top right of multicam window) and make the window smaller. Worked for me, as I had it blown up to screen size and it wouldn’t work right.
Richard Allen Crook
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No luck here either…I’m running dual quad-core xeons at 3.2 GHz, 24 gigs of very fast ram, 4 1.5 TB 7200rpm seagates in raid 0, a 240 cuda core 4GB of 102GB/sec ram nVidia Quadro FX5800 editing footage from 7Ds, 5D Mark II’s and XLH1’s and the multicam is so sluggish as to be unusable. CS5 has been ordered…I’ll let you know if that makes a difference. You’d think that 10 grand of computer should chew through this stuff…
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A very late reply, but might be useful to somebody…
I did a multi-camera project with raw footage from three Kodak Zi8s. In Premiere Pro CS4, the Multi Camera Monitor was unusable jumpy (I think I was just getting a still image actually!), so I re-did the project in CS3 with the same settings and it worked fine. I was using Apple Intermediate Codec for the project setting.
Apart from the background Adobe Media Encoder, I’m really unimpressed with CS4. I’m hoping CS5.5 will do a better job than both 4 and 3. -
Ok I had the same issues with cs5 being sluggish on a multicam sequence. The original was a 2 hd camera sequence (with files converted to mpeg2 using adobe media encoder to reduce overhead). Must say the original sequence played back and scrubbed without any effort. The problem was premiere was taking a long time to play back (or scrub) after hitting play in the nested multicam sequence – sometimes up to 4 seconds but then scrubbing was really fast.
As I didn’t need to hear the audio after lining up I simply disabled audio on the audio track. Made the eye disappear. Hey Presto scrubbing was back to normal. I realise this is counterproductive but if you don’t need to hear the audio, try disabling it. -
Hi!
I was searching about this issue on the web, I have a Quad Core PC with 16 Gb of RAM and the videos of a 7D on a separate drive, but the multicamera was playing incredibly slow, I pressed the space bar and had to wait about 3 seconds for the video to start playing.
I found a simple solution, I rendered the audio (Sequence/Render Audio) and the video played just well.
I hope this helps you with your issue!
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7 years later, I’ve found the solution for probably most of us here.
I signed up after having the problem myself, to post the solution here for anyone who landed here via search-machine.
Everything posted before, did not help in my case.The solution is “Proxy Editing”.
Search for the term in Youtube and you will find plenty of introduction videos for Premiere CC.Follow these steps:
– Copy all your clips onto your SSD (not HD)
(if you don’t have a SSD, the below steps will still help, but won’t completely eliminate stuttering)
– Create new project
– Under “Ingest Settings” chose “Ingest” and select “Create Proxies” in the drop down menu; Chose preset “1024×540 GoPro CineForm”
– Create Project with these settings
– Go into media browser window and look for your videos on your hard drive (remember SSD!)
– Select all videos, right-click and chose “import”
– Media Encoder opens automatically and renders all videos in this 1024×540 format and drops them into your project folder; wait for it to finish
– Go into the “Project” window and select all your clips, right-click, chose “create multi camera source sequence”
– Do your preferred multi-cam settings and apply
– right-click on just newly created sequence and chose “new sequence from clip”
– Press Shift+0 to go into multi-cam window-view
– click on the wrench symbol and search for the “Toggle Proxies” symbol. Drag and drop this symbol onto your shortcut-bar below of your multi-cam window
– click on the “Toggle Proxies” symbol to activate
-> Multi-Cam now plays without stuttering, even with 12x 1080p clips in my case
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