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Playback lagging premiere Pro CS4
I recently started using premiere pro cs4 again and when I place a clip into the timeline it has a yellow bar over the clip. The preview video freezes and stutters like crazy. I am using footage shot on a Canon T3i converted to apple ProRes 422 LT. I’m assuming I have to use a different codec but would like to know which I can use so that playback will not lag and one that will be very little quality loss. I am editing on a mac.
2.66 GHz Intel core 2 duo
8GB 1067 DDR3
NVIDIA Geforce 9400 256 Mb -
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Sorry to say, you will not get good performance with that setup –
- The processor is old/slow
- You don’t have enough RAM
- Premiere CS4 is several years old (and doesn’t support GPU acceleration)
- Your video card does not provide GPU acceleration (see previous)
- And I would guess you are using a single (system) hard drive as well?
Jeff Pulera
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Thank you, Jeff this actually saved me a bit of money. I was going to upgrade to Adobe cc in the next few months, and by the sounds of it I wouldn’t have been able to use it. I’m not in a place where I can buy a new computer so I’ll just continue using FCP for now. I wanted to switch back to Premiere because of the dynamic linking since I do go back and forth from my NLE and After Effect. I know that you lose quality going back and forth, is there any ideal workflow when going between the two?
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If you use ProRes (or another “lossless” codec) as an intermediate codec, you will experience virtually no quality loss for several exports going between the two programs.
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