Performance problem

Adobe Premiere Pro

Performance problem

Posted by Joe Landau on May 2, 2005 at 4:23 am

I’m importing an AVI file into Premiere to do some simple editing. The performance is very bad. I keep my project file on the C drive and my AVI files on the D drive. The refresh rate of the frames on the timeline is very slow and it takes a long time between my hitting Enter and the movie playing on the display window. I re-installed Premiere but that didn’t help. I’m wondering. I got these avi files by ripping DVDs created by a professional shop from family videos. I used a DivX511Bundle codec to rip the DVD. When I edit a video that I captured from a Mini DV tape, on the same timeline, it works fine. But as soon as I move to the segment ripped from the DVD, the performance is terrible.

Steven L. gotz replied 21 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Steven L. gotz
May 2, 2005 at 4:53 am

Premiere Pro does not support highly compressed files, especially temporally compressed. DivX is for viewing, not for editing. Find a different way to rip your DVD.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5
Joe Landau
May 2, 2005 at 7:20 am

Steven,

Thanx. I am in such a bind. I ripped 33 DVDS and need to finish a project in just a few weeks. Can you suggest a different ripper. I am willing to pay for it.
Thanx,

Joe
Steven L. gotz
May 2, 2005 at 12:37 pm

I use ImTOO DVD Ripper for such things when necessary. Not verey expensive. And it allows you to use any codec you have on your system. So if you had a DVStorm for example, you could use the CanopusDV codec. Worse comes to worse, almost every system has a Cinepak codec. If you have the disk space, HuffYUV works great.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5
Joe Landau
May 2, 2005 at 5:59 pm

Steve,

Thx a lot.

Joe
Joe Landau
May 3, 2005 at 3:45 am

Hi Steve,

I downloaded IMTOODVD but have not been able to find the right setting for ripping a DVD into an avi file suitable for Premiere.
I sent an e-mail to the company, but received an automated reply.
Do you have an insight of the exact requiered settings?

Thanks,

Joe
Steven L. gotz
May 3, 2005 at 5:10 am

It depends on what codecs you have on your system, but you could probably use Cinepak successfully.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

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