Playback stutter CS5

[Paul Jay]

I believe the XDCAM EX presets in Premiere are for the Native MP4 files.

But you have the Quicktime files right?

Try create sequence from clip.
Right click on clip.

Premiere Mac 5.5 isn’t finished yet with Quicktime ProRes or EX or whatever files.

[Marc Weakley]

Cheers Paul. Yes they are Quicktime.

When I drop a clip onto the ‘new item’ tab and then check sequence settings it says my ‘Editing Mode’ is ‘AVC-Intra 100 1080p 50Hz’.

This was shot and ingested at EX HQ 1080i.

Remember this won’t even play smoothly in the source viewer. Bit of a headache.

[Cody Walters]

Hi Marc,

I’m making the transition from Final Cut Pro to Premiere as well and I’m experiencing similar problems. Playback isn’t very smooth. Scrubbing seems to be very bad and occasionally my audio will drop out while I’m monitoring. I’m using 5.5 on a Mac. So far I’m not very impressed, but I’m sure it is something I’m doing wrong.

Cody Walters
JW Studio LLC
Houston Video Production
Houston Wedding Videographer

Final Cut Studio 3
Adobe CS5 Master Suite
Panasonic HVX-200
Canon 7D

[Marc Weakley]

Hey Cody yeah it’s a little frustrating to say the least. Even my 8-core Mac Pro seems to struggle scrubbing. Unfortunately it’s a deal-breaker for me as if I can’t watch the video I’m editing I can’t edit.

I have a ‘Classroom in a Book’ coming from Amazon so maybe an answer in there. I’ll let you know if I find out anything.

Cheers, Marc

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Chris O’neal]

Just curious what video card you guys have in, as I am experiencing the same things.

[Marc Weakley]

Hi Chris, the MBP is Nvidia GeForce 9600M.

This is so frustrating as all you hear is about how great PP CS5 is at rendering/playing and two of my four machines are completely unusable as I literally cannot play the videos.

Book still hasn’t arrived…cheers, Marc

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Dustin Bowser]

I’m having the same problems here. Trying out CS5.5 after being with Final Cut for a few years. I’m a keyboard shortcut fanatic, so I’m able to move really fast in Final Cut because the user interface keeps up with me, but I’m finding that in Premiere I’m constantly waiting 1 second here and 2 seconds there every time I need to do something new. Same goes for playback, which is stuttery and my audio drops out as well. I’m constantly having go back to the start and hit play again, hoping that Premiere has caught up to me finally.

My machine —

OSX 10.5.8
Dual Quadcore 2.8 GHZ
10GB Ram
Nivideo GeForce 8800 GT 512mb VRAM

I was hoping I was going to love Premiere, all the new features really sounded awesome, but I’m finding the actual nitty gritty of editing very painful and frustrating.

[Marc Weakley]

Hmm, good to see I’m not alone here. Now we just need a guru to join in here with the silver bullet – ‘oh all you guys need to do hit ‘apple-F-I-X’ and you’re in business’. Like you Dustin I really want to love this but love’s hurtin real bad right now.

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Jon Barrie]

What is your setup for hard drives? Are you playing the transcoded clips from a fast external drive?

Mbp c2duo may not be quick enough. Working with native ex.files from the camera (no transcodibg required) is what PPro is made to work with.

Quarter playback resolution should get you by, so I would look at the setup. Maybe verify your drive permissions and try using a FW800 ext. drive.

FullHD needs a bit of power. 🙂

Let us know how you go. Could be the graphics card drivers too. Old cards…. Apple write the drivers so you may not be able to update…

I have a MBP with similar spec. Be interested in Testing your footage…

Jon Barrie
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[Christopher Hicken]

I have been working on CS5.5 for the last couple of weeks, and its been a nightmare. I like many, have been seeking a way forward from Final Cut.
I purchased the Quadro 4000 card, upgraded my RAM and installed an internal RAID. I love the idea of Premier but it seems to be a bad fit for Mac from all I have read. I have been working in an H264 timeline, and the stuttering makes it impossible to work with, unless I render. I have checked CPU performance and RAM performance, and this is not the issue. I have yet to try editing a sequence with Pro Res, maybe that will be much smoother?