Premiere being really slow and buggy to the point of unusable.

[Joseph Mastantuono]

Ok…

Weird update:

In settings > Playback

Changed Default player from Blackmagic design to Default Adobe, and all my problems went away. (still getting output to my broadcast monitor through BMD card though). Feeling much better, and able to actually edit.

Anyone out there have an explanation for this?

Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
Color Grading & Post Production Consulting

[Tero Ahlfors]

Sounds like a Blackmagic issue. Are your drivers etc up to date?

[Joseph Mastantuono]

Everything is up to date.

Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
Color Grading & Post Production Consulting

[Tero Ahlfors]

Then you’ll probably need to contact Blackmagic about this.

[Tapio Haaja]

I’ve been testing Premiere Pro extensively with AJA hardware and it simply sucks. Lots of lagging, you lose lots of realtime and all kind of weird stuff… And what I read experience is more or less similar with Blackmagic and Matrox. Now I just tested Avid MC6 with AJA Kona LHi hardware and I have to say it’s like dream after Premieres terribly performance. Actually I think AJA Kona never worked so smoothly even with FCP7. Premiere is great software but hardware I/O sucks badly at the moment and that’s main reason why I haven’t moved to Premiere yet. If you work only with your monitor Premiere works flawlessly. I think there must something badly broken deep in the engine because neither AJA, Blackmagic or Matrox haven’t been able to make great performance drivers for Premiere. I really really hope this is one thing Adobe addresses in CS6 because otherwise I think Premiere is great!

Best
Tapio Haaja

On-Air Promotion Producer
https://avseikkailuja.blogspot.com/

[Tom Daigon]

Tapio, Im running Kona 3 with the latest drivers on the below configuration and asm having no problems with playback on my external engineering monitor.

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
https://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
2 x 3.2 ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Kona 3
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3

[Tapio Haaja]

Okay, I have been testing with AJA Kona LHi and LHe but not with AJA Kona 3. So I guess it works then 🙂 Worst thing in my experience is terrible lag in AJA monitoring when working. It completely slows down my work. That’s why I’ve been editing without AJA and then when needed just checked sequence through broadcast monitor. I think that the whole logic of that you have to make I/O specific sequences in Premiere and even choose own settings for source monitor is very very awkward. Whole broadcast I/O looks like afterthought in Premiere for me. I just hope Adobe spends some serious time with these issues.

Best
Tapio Haaja

On-Air Promotion Producer
https://avseikkailuja.blogspot.com/

[Danny Nieder]

I have the LHi as well. I was **terribly** frustrated with 5.5 for a long time. (FCP Switcher) I was editing H.264 footage from a 5D and never getting good performance. Crashes, lags, stutters, all the bad stuff. I finally threw in the towel and started to transcode my footage to ProRes, and I’m back in business. I know that takes away a big plus of working with Premiere – the ability to avoid transcoding – but it just wasn’t working. What kind of footage are you editing with?

MacPro 4,1 Quad Core
32GB RAM
GTX 285
Aja Lhi
Software RAID