PPro 1.5 sluggish performance

[Myron Lenenski]

We had the same problem. Any clip longer than ten minutes causes a meltdown. If you want longer captures, you enter this area of unexplainable sluggishness.

We called Decklink and Adobe and nobody knows why or what to change. It sucks.

We downloaded the Sony Vegas free trial and it works okay on long captures, but that’s not the direction we want to go.

Email them both directly, this needs to get fixed.

[Jaromir Pesr]

I’m not sure if it has appeared when I started to work with Deckling. I think I have no problem to work in PPro with long clips long time ago but maybe I’m wrong. I cannot remember what codec was used those days if BMD 10bit or pure uncompressed AVI. Isn’t it some bug in newer drivers? Do you test different ones?

Jaromir Pesr
IO postproduction
Prague, Czech Republic

[Matt Dowling]

Hi,

We actually reproduced this a couple of days back and have been coding to address it. We will have a fix for this in the next day or so. It looks like this was introduced in 5.2 only.

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Jaromir Pesr]

Thanks, sounds great…

Jaromir Pesr
IO postproduction
Prague, Czech Republic

[Tony Partam]

Have the same problem here…noticed it really on HD long projects.
When i used project management and done a copy of the project to a new one in another location with only the clips i used on the timeline the problem dissapeared.
It is a long clip problem.
Happy to hear you’re working on it guys.

Tony

[Mark Stevenson]

Dont know if this helps but i had very bad performance with decklink dual link and even extreme together with premiere pro 1.5.1 until i changed back to version 5.1.1 from 5.2. However i did change the motherboard bios for my supermicro x6dae-g2 from 1.2c back to 1.2a since i have another system that runs fine with 5.1.1 and 1.2a which is how i knew.

I didnt have the time to check to see what was the problem be it drivers or motherboard but it could be both.

Finally their was an update to 1.3 for the motherboard but i didnt notice this until after it went on long term loan.

However i have an issue that i would like people to try under blackmagic DV preset export bars and tone (audio and video) and see if when imported back in it brings the audio back. The reason i ask is becasue all my systems do the same i have tried the latest 5.2.1 driver and that does the same.

Just in case anyone asks i have ticked the box to say ‘export audio’

Regards
John

[Dkh Lai]

Hi,

I have the export audio problem as well under
BMD PAL DV project setting.

Besides, I really hope that the ” Adobe shut down
problem” can be solve as well for the next driver.

Thanks

regards

Daniel

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Tony,

We are confident we have fixed this and have also included QT 7 support(about time i hear everyone scream).

Also the DeckLink is now seen as a sound device by the system, so you can now play audio through the DeckLink across the whole system ie.Windows Media player, iTunes etc…

We have finished the code and will be posting a beta installer Monday (Australian time)

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design