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Poor playback from timeline….after a while – Cs6
I have an updated version of Premier CS6 on my new MacbookPro 17″, meaning I use the Mercury GPU option.
Mac: OS10.7.4 2.4GHz Intel Core i7 8GB RAM 6 GB alocated to PP
When I start playing footage on the timeline for the first time everything plays without droped frames.
The indicator is green.
But as soon as I start doing anything on the timeline: cuts,disolves,effects etc. playback gets poorer an poorer, and even just rearrange the panels, the indicator turns yellow when I start playback.
This also effects playback of the media which is untouched.I have tried with diferent kinds of media, from standard DV to AVCHD 720p and 1080p and DVCPROHD 1080 i
When I save the project, shut down PP6 and open the project again the playback is perfect – until I start doing something on the timeline,
then it starts slowing down again. I have used both the internal and an external harddrive: exactly the same result.Can anybody help me ?
Regards
Bjorn -
14 Replies
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You have a memory leak somewhere. Have a look at your performance monitor while working in PPro – your RAM will slowly be gobbled up by Premiere.
Are you running a Blackmagic card by any chance? If so, do not use any driver newer than 9.5.2. If not, I would suggest you start by making sure your video card drivers are up to date.
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Hei Alan Yes I have installed Blacmagic Media Express 9.6.1 but I did not manage to find out if removing this would solve the problem as I just before I received your answer I installed OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and after that PP6 runs perfect. I have loaded tons of effects and adjustments on my timeline and it plays at full resolution exept for some of the most demanding effects, but as soon as it passes these parts it plays normal again, full resolution without dropping frames. Best regards Bjorn
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Glad you got it fixed, but I suspect it had more to do with the 9.6.1 BM driver than the Mountain Lion. 😉
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Hei Alan
Maybe so, but as long as I now is working without problems I dont think I will investigate in this.
But, why do you think the newer drivers from BM should be a problem for PP6 ?
BR
Bjorn -
9.5.3 and 9.6.0 had an issue with memory leakage. They may have fixed it with 9.6.1 but I haven’t downloaded it yet, I just went back to 9.5.2.
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Hey there, newbie searching for advice and found this thread which I thought was perfect to bump.
I’m having the same problem with PP CS6. I have only just switched form FCX as I didn’t like it but FCP7 wouldn’t use all four cores in my imac. To be honest I’ve always enjoyed PP anyway from my days of using it with a Matrox RT in a PC setup, so not a hard choice. However, I’m experiencing the same dropped frames from the timeline as the previous poster.
I have only put together about 2 minutes of a documentary so far in a 1080i Sony HDV project, minor effects and only two layers of video at some points. When I first play back when opening the project it is fine but as soon as I add an effect, make an edit or just scrub a few times on the timeline, playback of the sequence is very choppy for the rest of the session, so much so I cannot gauge my editing accurately at all.
I upgraded to PP 6.0.1 to see if this solved it but all I got were the additional bugs with serious crashes and restores. I’ve rolled back to 6.0 but stuck with the dropped frames issue either way.
I’m running imac with OSX Lion 10.7.4 with a quad 2.7ghz Intel i5. I upgraded from the stock 4GB of RAM to the maximum 16GB for my system to see if this helped. Premiere is using a little more RAM now than previously but only about 0.5gb more and performance has not changed.
I have a Radeon HD 6770 512mb graphics card. I cannot find a mac driver update section for this particular card ANYWHERE but I read that the Mac OS updates should monitor this and I currently have no updates available for 10.7.4.
It’s driving me crazy. Do I have a memory leak? I have 13GB dedicated to Premiere and its not quite using a third of this in my sequence for playback. I obviously don’t have the CUDA acceleration with this graphics card of just being an imac user anyway but rendering is ok depending on which effects and I’ve only ever seen the CPU at 60% and the RAM at about 3.5GB anyway so far. Why should the the dropped frame indicator stay green at first but as soon as you intreact with the project, subsequent playblack then hits yellow constantly?! Everytime I’ve performed a more major edit I have to quit the project then re-open to playback once without dropped frames.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated 🙂
Many thanks,
Ken
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I did not remove the BM drivers – only updater to ML. After that: No problems !
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As you can see in this forum I had exactly the same problem. I am running PP 6.01.
After I updated my system to Mountain Lion I have used PP without problems.
No dropped frames, no yellow indicator, unless of course when I use heavy effects and compositions.
When I passes these parts I have to stop and the play again : GREEN ! -
Ken,
Are you using a Blackmagic card? If so, get the latest drivers, it will fix your problems.
Bjorn,
Your mem leak was NOT fixed by Mountain Lion, it was the updated BM drivers, guaranteed. 🙂
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