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Premiere Pro Performance Question
Hi,
Hopefully this isn’t a common question but if it is please bear with me.In the past I have been working with the older version of premiere, after FX, etc on a 3.2 p4 with 2 gigs of memory. I have recently upgrade both my system and to the new production studio pro. I now have a Boxx 7400 with dual dual-core Opteron 280 system with 4 gigs of memory.
I have been testing projects in Premiere, , Encore, After Effects, and Audition I have been noticing that I am not even coming close to maxing out my processors. In all three programs they all average about 20-50% use under rendering, transcoding, and processor intensive tasks. I even created a benchmark test by timing one project in Premiere on the old computer and then on the new and it only had 10% increase in rendering speed with all the extra processing power. (I installed the new production studio on the old machine to make sure the test was accurate)
I am basically trying to figure out what the bottleneck is. Could it be that the new production studio doesn’t multithread well? Are there some settings I should be adjusting? What is everyone else seeing when they render intensive tasks? I feel like I should be seeing better performance gains out of this new system.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,
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7 Replies
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Yours is a typical experience…folks with dual Xeons have the same issue. Upside is that you can multi-task while rendering.
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Has anyone found a solution to the problem?
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[Tom Sven] ” I feel like I should be seeing better performance gains out of this new system.”
It may very well be that your performance in limited by the hard disk Read/Write operations required by Premiere Pro.
In order to insure best performance from your drives you should:
1) Combine the operation of two SATA similar drives in a RAID 0 configuration and use the tanden as the A/V drive. This usually more than doubles the Read/Write speed.
2) Make sure that your system, A/V and export drive (if any) are not more than 80% full.
3) Often defrag these drives. Perfectdisk 7.0 is recommended for its defrag speed and it’s analysis tool that clearly identifies the type of defrag needed when applicable.https://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/
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Thanks for the tips, Do you know of any utilities available for watching the amount disc usage while doing task?
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[Tom Sven] “Do you know of any utilities available for watching the amount disc usage while doing task?”
No, I am not aware that such utility exists.
If you are interested in a utility that measures the Write and Read throughput of hard disks, give your e-mail address in a reply and I will e-mail it to you.
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Ok great thanks.
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You can simply measure this in Windows Task Manager (invoked by Ctrl+Alt+Del). Select View > Select Columns in it. Select I/O Writes/Reads in the Dialog. Let me know if this worked for you.
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