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Premiere Pro lagging badly. Please help. Urgent.
I recently upgraded from Premiere Pro 1.5 to Premiere 2.0. Premiere Pro 2.0 was working fine until I upgraded the Matrox and set the output settings to an external monitor. It started lagging very badly while processing. It had no problem rendering, previewing or exporting, but it takes forever to do a simple cut, drag or even undo. Please help… I have a project with tight schedule coming up very very soon, and I would need my Premiere Pro to run at its best.
Thanks a lot
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Can you remove the Matrox update? It would seem that that is what caused the slow down…and removing it would allow you to get your project done.
You could also check with Matrox to see if you might have something else installed on your system that causes some known conflict…
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You could try purging the rendered files. I usually never render until the project is completed for final review.
Vince
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The matrox update was the exact same one I’ve used with premiere pro 2.0 before the computer was serviced. When it got back from being serviced we installed premiere pro 1.5, while waiting for the installation pack of premiere pro 2.0 to get here. It worked fine before it was serviced, that’s why I’m getting really worried when the lagging happens. Maybe I got the settings wrong or something. Could it be that some settings in premiere pro 2.0 are the ones that affecting the performance while running on matrox?
I will try what you have suggested. Fingers crossed it would work 🙂
Thank you.
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I discovered that the lagging happens only with a certain project. The project contains a lot of footage (3 hours in total). I found out that pp 2.0 lags when that project was opened. I thought that the problem was with the footage. So I opened pp 2.0 again, and re-import the same footage… it worked fine. I opened a different project and it was working fine. I haven’t tested with some other projects that have a lot of footage in it. I’m very confused at the moment. Any idea why this happens?
Thanks.
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Could it be that you are using a lot of native premiere effects in this project that require lots of rendering? If so, get used to slowness as the project grows especially if you are moving lots of stuff around. Using nested timelines helps. The amount of footage has not been a big issue. We have ingested days of footage. But the length of the timeline is. 3 hours is max. What Matrox? Axio or RT product. Also make sure your scratch drives all set to fasted drive. Preferably fast raid storage.
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i’ve made sure i set the scratch disk to the right drive, and it is. it’s matrox rt, and it has a lot of effects that need rendering. If that’s the case then i’m a little relieved, at least it’s a normal case.
What would be a good step to take when I have to edit footage more than 3 hours long (with note that most of the time I would need to adjust the colours) so it doesn’t lag so much?
Thank you.
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One thing you could do would be to edit in shorter sessions, and export to m2v files for chaptered DVD. Premiere does have 3 hour limitations. I have gone over three, but had similiar issues.
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Thank you for the tips… I will try it next time 🙂
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