Premiere CS5 Choppy/Skippy Render Issue

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Ok working on it now. 8 Hours to go:-)))

[Todd Perchert]

Honestly, it’s a long-shot that this is the problem, but it certainly is worth trying. Myself, I had enough clean mpeg-2 renders that it has me convinced on my system so that I have a new PSU coming.

Did you do an uncompressed render? I’m guessing your system may not play back uncompressed smoothly… but what about matching your sequence settings and rendering. I’m wondering if that would play back well. It’s another option if this last mpeg-2 render with half your cpu doesn’t work. I know, it’s a lot of time doing all the renders, but can help in tracking something down.
TC

[Dragan Negovanovic]

OK here are some results. I rendered with only one core checked and unfortunately same problem happened. The rendered file stalled for a second in two places.

I also exported as uncompressed AVI, and you are right I could not even play this one. I imported the file into premiere and let it render to mpeg2 and got the same results.

Then I tried something totally different, I took a completely different mpeg2 file recorded off of internet tv. Anyhow, that mpeg2 file played smoothly in windows media player. I took that file and imported it into CS5 and rendered it out. Guess what happened? It stalled in two places:-))

Conclusion either CS5 is a horrible program or it has issues with my computer. I am going to guess that it is my computer but the only way I can find out is to by a new laptop like i7 or try to find someone that has CS5 and to render my project on their i7. Thanks for helping folks.

[Todd Perchert]

No problem… I was hoping it might just be a power issue, which it still could be – but good luck!

For your HD editing, you definitely will want a PC with more horsepower…
TC

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Thanks again for trying. I will be looking to by a very powerfull laptop. I will post the question on recommendations in another post, I am really looking forward to you input..

Thanks again.

[Todd Perchert]

Dragan – keep in mind that there may be a chance that this same issue may happen with a more powerful PC. I changed out my PSU and appear to still be having issues. I’m now figuring it is just Windows Media Player problem – even though I can’t exactly prove that since some files will work fine. I am running into about 25% of the time it has issues. Upgraded my VLC and it will play the files fine. PPro will play the files fine. AME will transcode the files fine. It’s just Windows Media Player and Windows Media Encoder that are having issues, at least on my end. I’m guessing there could be some kind of a small error in the files themselves, which is why the problem will be in the exact same spot each time, and Windows Media Player just can’t handle it. I’ve even gotten QuickTime to play the files – it doesn’t start playing too well, but it plays through the problem area with no problem. I’m still not sure if I can trust those files to not have any problems once a TV station gets a hold of them, but it looks more promising that it’s just Windows…
Sorry for the long-winded post…
Good Luck! TC

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Todd – Thanks for coming back and reposting. I am sorry to hear that you are still having the problem. I have not yet purchased the machine although I am planning on doing it soon. It is discouraging to here that the issue is still happening. I guess the big question is how do we get Windows Media Player to play back fine?
I just rendered some SD footage and it did the same thing, it stalled.

Here is something interesting. I rendered 45 min of AVCHD files to MPEG2 HD, and no issues happened? The video was smooth all the way through. This was on my slow machine as well…

I guess I will buy the machine anyhow becuase I need a faster computer for video. I will update you how the rendering works out on it. If you find anything else please let me know.

Thanks,

Dragan

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Todd,

Just to give you and update. I purchased an ASUS brand new laptop. i7, nvidia 460m card, 8gb of ram. The machine is smoking fast.
I loaded a brand new video, no effects on it or anything. Simple render into mpeg hd and SD. Guess what. Same problem here. I have to say that this must be a problem with CS5. We can’t be the only ones out there with the issue.

If anyone has any idea or the same problem please post here.

Thanks,

Dragan

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Todd,

I think I found what the problem is. Uncheck Render at Max Quality settings. I read somewhere that if you are using a CUDA card you don’t need to have it checked. I just unchecked and rendered and the video did not skip.

Can you try and let me know if you get the same result. This is definately a CS5 issue as I was having the same issue on two machines.

Thanks,

Dragan

[Dragan Negovanovic]

I just rendered again without the Max Render Quality Checked and got the same problem. The video stalled for a second. Now we have a brand new machine, brand footage from a different camera and this still happened. Must be a glitch in CS5..