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Scrubbing in timeline and fast forward audio question
I’m finally taking some time with Premiere to learn the ins and outs (pun intended). Been dabbling for the past year, so I have a good foundation. FCP7 keyboard layout… check. Very happy when cutting in it last night.
I’m coming from FCP legacy, so everything I’m used to is from that perspective. What I’m seeing in Premiere is that scrubbing in the timeline doesn’t update wherever the playhead is. I have to stop, wait for it to refresh, and go again.
I admit to being at a bit of a speed deficiency. System specs – 2011 Mac Pro 13″ with 8GB ram. Footage is AVCHD from a GH2 running off a FW 800 drive. No transcode, so working with raw media. In FCP7 with the same setup BUT with prores footage, scrubbing is fine and as expected, even with 1080p.
Is this just par for the course given my system speed and drive limitation? 2x fast forward plays fine but it gets very choppy as I go faster than that.
Last question, is there a way in premiere to get the audio to pitch correct when fast forwarding? This is a great feature in FCP, as I play a shot at 2x and know where I am in the dialogue or interview. Great for client driven edit sessions, docu work, corporate, etc…
Thanks.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company -
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You would be better off starting with 16gb RAM
Stefan Kamp, FCP,Ppro,MC,Lightworks
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8Gb ram is enough if you ONLY are working with Premiere, but is limited if your workflow includes for example After Effects. 12GB would be the minimun for this workflow.
Having media in a FW800 HD is not the better way, it might be in a FW 1800 at least or in an internal Raid0 or even an SSD. Right Disks configuration and fast disk speeds are critical when playing back High Def files. Take a look at this: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/662972#.UGyyzXsdTnc.emailAudio scrubbing can be done simply by playing back timeline pressing “L” in the keyborard. If you press it twice, playing speed goes 2x, pressing three times it plays at 4x and so on. Doing it with “J” plays back reverse. In my experience audio plays fine until 4x before it begans to get randomly lost.
Regards
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Hey guys, thanks for the responses. RAM should not be an issue for playback or scrubbing unless you are using After Effects. In software only mode, Mercury is utilizing the CPU more than ram. I’ve tried this on 1/2 and 1/4 and scrubbing is still very laggy. No other programs were running.
The issue I’m seeing is probably because footage is essentially Long GOP (even though it was shot in i-frame from hacked GH2) and it’s a core i5 laptop. To test this further, I rendered the entire timeline out in Adobe’s MPEG i-frame codec. It scrubbed fine then. Gotta be CPU speed.
Regarding JKL – um, yeah, I know JKL. 😀
My question was that I’d like to know whether or not you can pitch correct the audio during fast forward and rewind in Premiere. I like the way FCP pitch corrects audio during FF since you can still understand what is being said. Having done some searching on ‘da web, it looks like it’s a no-go. But still hoping there’s a way.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company -
I had a similar issue with timeline updating, and V6.0.3 fixed it…
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