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Scratch disk and a second HD
I have been editing video within Permiere for the longest time now using one 80 gig hard drive, 1024 Megs of DDR RAM and an Athalon 2600+. Everything has run fairly smooth with no real glitches to worry about.
I pipcked up a 200 Gig Maxtor yesterday, popped it in to my machine and all of the sudden, realtime playback in Premiere is choppy, and slow making editing sequences impossible to playback in decent quality. My CPU is being gouged by all of this activity, whereas my RAM seems virtually unaffected using only half of it’s power. This issue is more apparent than ever when I try to A)Scrub the timeline, or B)Do the realtime ‘spacebar’ playback thing.
I have tried mucking around with the scratch disk setting within the Premiere options, I have tried Memturbo and I have tried playing around in the control panel/system/virtual memory page allocation windows. I’m have no idea what I’m doing.
Would soebody please give me a few points in the right direction? I have a project due in 3 days.
Thanks all
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What are the specifications of the drive? How much cache, speed? DMA may be turned off on it. Did you format it NTFS or FAT32? Is it on the same cable drop as a CD or DVD?
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It’s the Maxtor ATA133 200GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache. It is using the same cable ribbon as my existing HD, but the Opticl drives use a seperate ribbon that comes from another nearby place on the motherboard. I believe they connect via ATPI or something. It’s a 21 or so pin ribbom that I believe is pretty standard for newer PCs.
I formtted it NTFS
I failed to mention that I am also running an ATI Radeon 9600 wth 128 megs of ram on my machine.
Thanks for your help, you could really help me out of this ‘between rock and hard place’ situation.
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An early solution may be to attach each hard drive to its own channel (cable). Make sure the hard drives are both set as “masters”. Add your optical drive behind one of the hard drives as a slave. Premiere Pro seems to favour seperate channels for its scratch disks and for a number of other reasons.
Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
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sounds like the problem started with the new hard drive ..
that should tell you somthing ! Try a different one if thats the only change you made
it the only thing that makes sence ,,,,
Just my 2 cents hope it helps
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Not at all. It’s quite common to have this sort of problem when adding hardware, particularly hard drives. (a) In simple terms it’s a matter of following the signal (data) path. Both drives being hooked up to the same data cable spells obvious problems and if this can be overcome (and it can) the solution may be quick and easy. (b) the new drive works and has been formatted correctly so its unlikely to be the cause and at this point replacement would be unnecessary.
Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia -
Here’s a bit of an update on the situation. I tried the seperate HD to each Ribbon method by attatching each HD to it’s own ribbon with it acting as the master, and the optical drive as the slave. This gave me a big ol error warning and forced me in to safemode, so I reverted back to the original setting. I’m going to try a full re-install of premiere to see if it resets any scratchdisk settings that might be fouling up the operation. As far as Scratchdisk goes, should I try setting the scratchdisk destination on my current projects to the new larger hard drive?
I tried connecting only my original hard drive to the system, and the problem is still persisting, so that leads me to believe it is an internal Premiere error. Might this problem continue if I were to attempt to open existing projects within a newly installed premiere? Would it revert back to the old settings?
Thanks again,
TT
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Holy guacamole, the uninstall re-install did it!
I’m not even going to try to understand or explain that one
Thanks for all your help guys and gals
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Out of interest, how did the hard drives perform in Windows? Were they visible in My Computer or Windows Explorer?
Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia
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