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Premiere previews gone wonky….any ideas?
My previews in Premiere CS5 used to work great…I could play 3 or 4 HD video clips each at less than 100% opacity simultaneously. I could use Dynamic Link thru After Effects and work quite efficiently. Over the last few months, it seems have gotten worse and worse…to the point that Dynamic Link is now useless and within Premiere, even simple dissolves don’t play well. No idea what’s happened, but I’m almost certain it didn’t just happen overnight. As someone who has used Premiere since Premiere 4.0, I’m fairly familiar with the settings. That being said, I’ve checked all my settings and everything seems right. I must be missing something.
Here’s my system.
Windows 7 64 bit
I7 Quad Core @ 2.88GHz
24Gig Ram
Nvidia GTX 460 I gig DDR5
Raid 1 Hard DrivesAs I do this for a living, having an efficient workflow is obviously something I need……Help?
🙂Dave
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Go into PrP Prefs/ Media and clean data cache.
Find your previews folder and delete previews.
Reboot PrP.
Any chance?
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
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No change….and what’s weird is that even with a straight dissolve, it plays fine until it gets to the transition… the video then freezes until the transition is over and then continues to play the clip after the transition but its all jerky. If I stop the playback at that point and the start it again, the clip seems to play fine. I still see the yellow line over the timeline, telling me that the transition doesn’t need to be rendered.
I’m at a loss……:(
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Thats very normal behavior when it needs you to render the dissolve. Just ignore the render color lines.
Are you using a CUDA card? How fast is your raid array? How much memory do you have? How fast is your processor? These are the heart of the Mercury Engine that determines the performance of your system.
What format clips are involved in the dissolve?
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
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I believe I answered all those questions in my original post except for the types of files. They are .mts
It doesn’t play the transition at all ….just freezes. I’ve never had to render a dissolve transition….at least not for about 5 years…going way back to the original Premiere Pro.
Thanks
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My apologies, I didnt go back to review your first post. I must I am on a Mac and have no first hand experience with .mts files.
I suggest a little Google research in that direction. I know with certain formats I have to render dissolves, although that’s not the case most of the time.
Good luck!
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 -
The biggest concern for me is that I had zero trouble with this a few months ago, so it’s not the file formats or inadequate gear or anything simple like that. It’s that something that used to work no longer does.
Crazy frustrating and really hard to troubleshoot.
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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 -
Have you done an update to PPro since last edit? Since you don’t have an approved CUDA card you may have to apply the hack I’ve heard tell about to get real-time Mercury stuff going…
Lance Bachelder
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From what I’ve seen, the mercury stuff either is enabled or its not. It definitely shows that it’s enabled and working.
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Quite a pain but have you tried converting the .mts into a container/codec like quicktime animation?
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