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Stuttering Playback and Frequent Crashes
Just formated a fresh new hard drive and installed a new copy of Adobe cs3 Suite. From day one I have had a hard time with CS3, when importing old project files made with Premeire 1.5.1 it makes me render the entire timeline, and then playback is awful.
The project I am working on contains roughly 600 gigs of HDV footage, stored on a 1 TB USB 2.0 7200 rpm External drive. Along with the stuttering playback, crashes happen all to frequently, and my project takes a good deal of time to load. Once the footage is rendered out playback is fine (with the usual hiccups every now and again). Pro 1.5.1 never had these issues, as I was editing the same project from the external before the “upgrade”. Any thoughts on where the hang up is?
My computers specs are :
1 TB Seagate 7200 External
Raid 0 w/2 x Seagate 750 GB
4 gigs ddr2 Ram
ASUS P5N-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775
EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3Thanks for any help guys
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8 Replies
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The external is OK for backups, not for editing.
Harm Millaard
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The external worked fine with no slow-down in Pro 1.5.1.
And I noticed a typo, it doesn’t playback normal after rendering, only after export.
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Typo- Playback still stutters after full render. Exporting gives me a file that is fine however.
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Export is not so much dependent on disk speed, playback is.
Harm Millaard
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All my drives, external and internal are 7200. Granted the raid 0 inside my tower is faster but I can’t understand why there is a change in compatability between 1.5.1 and CS3 for my external HD footage. What external drive connection should I be using to allow for editing on an external? If USB 2.0 doesnt cut it, could I use the SATA connection that is on the external? Would that cause issues with my raid or would it identify it as just another drive?
Thanks for your continued help
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SATA is around 4 times faster than USB and 3 times faster than firewire. It would be identified as just another drive and have no impact on the raid.
Harm Millaard
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One last question then.
If SATA fixes my external editing issue, then ideally I should have spent the money on internal rather then external drives, but if I were to attach the external via SATA what would my setup look like? Hole made in side of case for SATA cord out to the external HD? Or try to find room inside case for the “external” to sit?
Thanks again
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The other thing, that you may want to look into, is the scratch disks… temporary folders… keep them seperate for audio and video might help and definitely not on the same program drive.
Perry
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