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Playback stuttering badly and stopping…?
Hi all,
I’ve done a blackmagic disk speed check and windows check disk test on my RAID drive and all *seems* fine, but since this morning whenever I try to play any video in a timeline (or just from the source window) in PPro2 it stutters like crazy and then forces stop, obviously stating dropped frames in the info dialogue.
I don’t know what else to check that could be cuasing it.
Any trcks/ideas guys? This is quite urgent as it’s holding up my job!
Cheers,
Jim.*Production Studio Premium CS2 / *Combustion 3
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Win XP Pro SP2 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5 monitors / Sony BVM-20G1E / DVS SDI Clipstation / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 110GB boot/80GB media/600GB RAID-0 -
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One other thing….I’ve just noticed my 600GB RAID drive has only 25% space free. Could this be the problem? What is the minimum percentage capacity that should be kept free on your video drive?
*Production Studio Premium CS2 / *Combustion 3
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Win XP Pro SP2 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5 monitors / Sony BVM-20G1E / DVS SDI Clipstation / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 110GB boot/80GB media/600GB RAID-0 -
Virus/spyware scanner running?
Is the video DV or uncompressed?
Hard drive read/write speeds do slow down as they fill up…it is pretty much a linear thing, but DV should not be a problem. Have you defragged the drive? -
Hi Mike,
It’s uncompressed 50i PAL SD. I’ll try switch AVG & McAfee off, but I’ve always had them running with no probs before though..
As for defragging – I think Windows is set up to defrag every night, so shouldn’t be that.
Developments though…I’ve now noticed that Encore is having problems playing back m2v files in the timeline..and they’re on a separate drive!?!
It looks like my system in general is having problems…anyone think of any checks or tests I could try? Typically our IT guy is away this week!
Grrrr!!!
*Production Studio Premium CS2 / *Combustion 3
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Win XP Pro SP2 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5 monitors / Sony BVM-20G1E / DVS SDI Clipstation / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 110GB boot/80GB media/600GB RAID-0 -
[jimmybee500] “I’ll try switch AVG & McAfee off”
Watch task manager (cpu usage) while playing the problem videos…is it up to 100% and what processes are creating the usage??
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I think I know what it was…I think something was/is up with the registry..seemed to be hogging all the CPU. A shut down and leave off for 5 mins seemed to clear the memory and we’re ok now. Still a bit choppy in Premiere intermittently. Might do a check on all my disks overnight!
Bl00dy computers! Thanks for your help though Mike. I really need a new system to be honest, but I’ll muddle on for now..
*Production Studio Premium CS2 / *Combustion 3
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Win XP Pro SP2 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5 monitors / Sony BVM-20G1E / DVS SDI Clipstation / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 110GB boot/80GB media/600GB RAID-0
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