Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and Aja Kona 3. Video on desktop not as smooth as external monitor. Please Advise.

[Kevin Monahan]

Perhaps this video by Walter Biscardi will help: https://www.biscardicreative.com/blog/2011/06/transitioning-3-aja-kona-board-with-adobe-cs-5-5/

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[Jeff Pulera]

Right-click in the Program Monitor window and see what the Playback Resolution is set to – try “FULL” if it is not already. This helps on the PC, not sure about with Mac.

Jeff Pulera
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[Adam Svatek]

Kevin,

Thank you so much for the response. That was a very good idea. After setting the monitors to Full Res, I unfortunately still have the same jitteryness as before. Any other ideas?

-A

[Adam Svatek]

Thanks Kevin for the response. I have seen Walters demo’s as they are very helpful. He definitely got me started in the right direction. It’s at the stage now that I am encountering this jitteryness in the video on the preview and source monitors along with the lag in keystrokes on the keyboard. Do you have your system working flawless on a mac? Curious to how you have it setup. OSX version, hard drives you are running, although I get the same problem if I am using the internal drives as well, etc..

Thank you,
Adam

[Tapio Haaja]

Maybe you should read this thread – https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/915566

I have experience with different MacPros and AJA Konas and can say that Premiere Pro is still very buggy and laggy with AJA Konas. And from what I’ve read it seems that also Blackmagic’s and Matrox’s cards / output boxes are unstable and buggy. That’s why we decided to stay with Final Cut Pro 7 for a while and see which one (Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X) gets working external output sooner.

I like Premiere Pro and especially Dynamic Link but for me it seems that there must be something essential broken in Premiere Pros ‘engine’ because it’s one and a half year since CS5 launch and there’s no really well working output solution available. Or correct me if I’m wrong? And people who’ve been working with FCP and AJA Konas know what I mean by really well working solution. Also what the h__l is this thing in Premiere Pro that I’ve to choose ‘different player’ for source monitor?!#

Best
Tapio Haaja

On-Air Promotion Producer
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[Jim Wiseman]

What codec are you playing back?

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.0.2, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[James Barton]

As Tapio noted–the support in PrPro for both Aja and Blackmagic cards is lacking at the moment–my own feeling is that you are wasting effort at this point in time in trying to resolve your issues until Adobe/Aja/BMD issue driver/software updates.

[Jim Wiseman]

Other than material from my Nikon D7000 (which Adobe is aware of and I hope is fixed SOON) I am getting normal smooth playback with my AJA Kona LHi and the current AJA Adobe software and LHi Driver in all windows with the usual codecs I work with, XDCam, ProRes, etc. That is why I asked what codec you are using. If it is Nikon H264, you will be having problems. All of my windows are smooth including the external HDMI out to my color critical monitor. Maybe this is a Kona 3 problem. What is the experience of others?

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.0.2, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Javi Aledo]

Same lag problem scrubbing Premiere cs5.03 thru AJA Kona 3, any solution?

CG, Music, Photography, Programming…
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