Slow DSLR on PP CS5.5

[Jeff Greenberg]

Open up your either the task manager or resource manager in windows – see if the CPU is pegged or not during playback. The resource manager will give you better insight beyond CPU.

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[John Welsh]

Thanks Jeff,
I’m getting about 15%- 17% CPU usage tops, though several are “parked.”
JW

[Jeff Greenberg]

Any other culprits when it’s playing (drive speed or memory?)

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[John Welsh]

Memory and drive speed also seem Ok. It only happens in 5.5, same files in 5 play fine.

Lowering playback resolution also doesn’t affect this either. What happens is I’ll start playback, 4-5 seconds go by then it gets choppy. I’ll stop playback, being again, 4-5 seconds later it’s choppy again.

[Kevin Monahan]

Yes, we know about this problem and are working hard to resolve it. In the mean time, you can transcode the footage and then work in Premiere Pro as described here: https://nikon-videoconverter.com/2011/04/nikon-d7000-video-converter-convertimport-d7000-mov-to-wmvmov-for-adobe-premiere/

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[John Welsh]

Thanks Kevin, I though it may be a bug/upgrade issue since CS5 is pretty solid.

Also, with 5.5 Media Encoder long queues sometimes don’t finish. No crash, but files have to be subtracted/added and restarted. Where CS5 AME is fine.

John

[Kevin Monahan]

John,
That seems odd. What kind of footage? How long are the queues??

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[John Welsh]

Hi Kevin,

same footage (Nikon d7000). It’s been behaving lately, but I sometimes batch 50-70 short (duration) files. It’s not easy to reproduce as it’s random.

While we are discussing AME, I noticed when working with watch foiders the source file is copied to a new subfolder. Having the auto output folder is great but is there way to turn off each source file being moved to its own folder?

JW

[Adam Schmidt]

I too have had this issue. You only need to change the extension from .mov to .mpg and then use the .mpg files natively with all cpus, in all Adobe applications. The problem is with “Adobe QT 32 Server” only using one CPU, and the network buffer not moving data fast enough.
You can do this in batch with Bridge.
Quicktime has no problem reading the changed “.mpg” files natively as well, so there is no reason to keep a copy of the “mov” files.

Systems tested on:
MBP i7 quad 2.3 8GB ram SSD. OS10.6.8 and WIN7ult
MP Octo 2.66 24GB ram Raid. OS10.6.8
MP Duodecimus (12) core 2.93 96GB ram Raid. OS10.6.8 and WIN7ult

Adam Schmidt

[John Welsh]

Hey Adam,

renaming definitely does the trick…and it’s a good fix until they patch this. Thanks lots.

John