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PPro CS5.5 Timeline Lagging on MacPro
Hi all I am trying to get to the bottom of a problem I have had for a while. Initially I thought it might be a problem with the AJA card but I have since determined that it is not the issue.
Basically when moving clips around on a timeline, any timeline with any types of clips including bars and tone, I experience major lagging.
This short video gives an accurate representation of what I am experiencing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3EUtMrLVE8
Has anybody else experienced this? Any help would be absolutely wonderful.
BTW FCP7 works wonderfully and is amazingly responsive.
Thanks,
AlexMacPro 4,1 2.66Ghz Dual Quad Core Intel Xeon
16GB DDR3 ECC 1066MHz RAM
NVidia GTX 285
AJA Kona LHi -
27 Replies
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This behaviour is not typical.
I would suggest that your graphics card driver is probably the issue here. Thanks to Apple they write there own drivers which tend to get broken with Adobe products after an osx update or upgrade.
Look in that direction. My c2d laptop moves it around snappy quick.
– JB
Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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Thanks Jon for your suggestion but I have all the latest drivers etc. and why does FCP work ok?
The problem is just with PPro.
Alex Hawkins
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Only guessing, perhaps the PP is trying to make use of the mercury engine but that is not working for some reason, causing lag in the effort, whereas fcp does no have this acceleration, so does not lag? perhaps something like that? try turning the mercury engine OFF on the PP. Also AFAIK the mac pro HAS to be 2008 or newer to work with accelerated hardware, so if you have an older mac pro like I do (late 2007) you would be out of luck AFAIK…
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Is this in an AJA timeline? Apparently there are new drivers for AJA.
Have you tried doing this in an Adobe timeline? Is the behaviour the same?
Something is badly wrong in your system. The fact that it works in FCP is irrelevant. It should work just as well in Premiere.
David
AllinOneFilms.com -
I experience the same sort of slow timeline response with Premiere CS5 on a MacPro Dual Quad Core 2.8 with an NVidia Quadro FX 4800. I’ve actually posted about this same problem in this thread — https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/912444
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Thanks guys for the suggestions but I’ve tried all the different permutations to no avail.
I’ve posted on the Adobe PPro forum where a few more people have experienced the same thing with various setups, although all still on a MacPro.
Adobe are monitoring the thread.
Cheers,
Alex Hawkins
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What kind of media is this that you’re working with?
Has FCP processed it?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Hi Tim,
The media seems to be inconsequential. It happens with bars and tone or black generated by PPro.
This clip here is from someone else experiencing similar issues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyyv2ET5Azk
Alex Hawkins
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QuickTime is updated to Adobe specs?
Do you have QTX on the machine?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Yes and yes.
Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia
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