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Performance
I’m an FCP7 user who switched to PPro CS6 about 3 months ago. The past couple of months I started doing extensive work in PPRo and I’m noticing my system struggling. got a Quad i7 with CUDA card latest updates, 32GB of Ram, preferences allocated properly as far as I can tell. I’m noticing lengthy pauses and stutters when engaging playback. Working presently with 2 layers of video, audio and video pluggins, some titles… but that’s it. I thought CS6 was going to make this thing scream on my machine. Any advice? Thanks.
MotionFoundry, Inc. Video Post
Clients: GM, AOL, Kohl’s, 3 Doors Down, IKEA, Kelloggs, Toyota, Thomas Nelson, NASCAR Affiliates -
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Sure. Try these steps and see if it helps.
1. Delete Preferences
2. Find out where your Media Cache and Preview folders are.
With PrP closed. Go into each file and delete the files.Reopen the project and see if thing are better.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid -
Thanks Tom!
MotionFoundry, Inc. Video Post
Clients: GM, AOL, Kohl’s, 3 Doors Down, IKEA, Kelloggs, Toyota, Thomas Nelson, NASCAR Affiliates -
Your are welcome Brian.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid -
I wasn’t aware that I could also define a location for preview files to be consistently stored? Can you do that with CS6? I have a USB3 SSD I was thinking of using for cache and preview files. sound good?
MotionFoundry, Inc. Video Post
Clients: GM, AOL, Kohl’s, 3 Doors Down, IKEA, Kelloggs, Toyota, Thomas Nelson, NASCAR Affiliates -
Yes. Putting those 2 files on the fastest device you have/where you put your media is how my system is configured and it runs great!I have mine on an external Dulce raid array.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid -
Tom. I’m not seeing an option in CS6 to designate preview file location. I was viewing a CS4 tutorial and I guess it’s different.
MotionFoundry, Inc. Video Post
Clients: GM, AOL, Kohl’s, 3 Doors Down, IKEA, Kelloggs, Toyota, Thomas Nelson, NASCAR Affiliates -
Here you go.
Media cache (not the database) is in Prefs.
Preview is in Project Settings.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid -
Awesome! ty
MotionFoundry, Inc. Video Post
Clients: GM, AOL, Kohl’s, 3 Doors Down, IKEA, Kelloggs, Toyota, Thomas Nelson, NASCAR Affiliates -
Glad to help,Brian.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid -
Hi Tom,
This seems odd. I have mine set-up so the media cache/prefs etc are all on my Mac hard drive, which should surely be faster than any external drive. Still I get the stutters and in bigger projects awful handling unless I render everything.
Could this just be a graphics card issue – mine isn’t on the ‘recommended’ list, but Adobe have told me it should be adequate. But like Brian, I was expecting CS6 to be, well, blazing fast, as we were promised…
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