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Premiere Pro CS4 Lagging
I just upgraded my operating system from XP (32bit) to Win7 (64bit). I was running Premiere Pro CS4 on both operating systems but just started experiencing major lagging issues.
I have a 20 min timeline that consists of HDV and MTS footage. The HDV clips don’t ask for a render and all the MTS footage is rendered. When I play the sequence the video playback lags whenever there is a cut in the HDV footage. What is strange is that it never did this on my XP install.
I figure that putting an effect on the clips just to force a render would fix the play back but I am hoping to avoid having to render everything just to make some basic edit fixes and if this happens on future projects it could be a major pain.
Here are my system specs: (They are on the low end but have worked in the past for this exact same project file)
Win 7 64-bit
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ 2.60 GHz
4GB Ram
OS Drive WD 500GB SATA 3.0 7200RPM
Media Drive WD 1TB SATA 3.0 7200RMP
Adobe Production Premium CS4Note: I do have Cineform NeoScene but got it after I had finished the edit on this project so I am hoping to avoid having to convert all the footage to Cineform.
Thanks for your helpJared Isham
Stage Ham
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Since the project seems like it pre-dates the OS install if I understand you correctly…
Have you cleared the cache? Is it in a different place than it was before?
Was the OS simply upgraded, or did you wipe the C: drive and start clean?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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I haven’t cleared the cache, so I will give that a try.
I wiped the drive clean on the install and it is a completely different drive that the OS is installed on, the project is on the same drive letter but it is also a new drive (I copied the contents to it).
Here is my breakdown of what I did.
Old Setup:
80GB IDE drive (WinXP install – C:)
500GB SATA 3.0 (Media Drive – D:)New Setup:
500GB SATA 3.0 (Win7 install – C:)
1TB SATA 3.0 (Media Drive, contents copied over from 500GB drive file structure remains intact – D:)Jared Isham
Stage Ham
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Some updates on this issue. I just created a new project. The footage was shot on a Canon 60D and the 1080/24p H.264 Quicktime file was converted to Cineform using the latest version of NeoScene.
I placed the clip on the timeline and am still getting a lag, I made sure that it was playing in draft mode but that only moderately helped.
Is there anyway in CS4 to lower the playback quality to a percentage like in After effects or is CS5 required for that?
Jared Isham
Stage Ham
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I think at this poimt the system needs to be considered.
It is certainly not really up to the task of video editing in the present sense. I have one system with two of the processors you have with twice the RAM and it is definitely on the bottom end of the spectrumas far as I’m concerned.
CS5 may actually help as Mercury will drop resolution on playback much more aggressively.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
That’s what I was figuring, but what confuses me is all of this played fine when I was using Windows XP Pro (32bit). I was figuring that upgrading to Win7 (64bit) would help speed things up – everything else on my computer runs faster except playback in Premiere.
Jared Isham
Stage Ham
https://www.stgham.com
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Hey Jared,
About the whole windows xp/windows 7 upgrade creating a lag. I have the same issue..
Used to work on a 32-bit vista system with cs4. Always converted to cineform and thge files edited fine, no lag at all.I then upgraded to windows 7 32-bit, which created an alltogether better system performance, except in cs4.. playback of the same files creates a lag..
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