Weird playback issues (porbably a simple fix but i can’t find it)

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tom,

Is this with CS5? What kind of footage – AVHCD, HDV, DV?

If CS5, an Adobe-supported NVIDIA display card will make a world of difference in overall performance, it really drives CS5.

Next, I recently read that the “Green” drives are not a good choice for video editing, something about power saving modes or whatever, they shut down or sleep or something too often.

Also, no advantage to partitioning the video drive. This is not the same as using two separate drives, and probably does more harm than good.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Tom Opdebeeck] “HDD2: WD Caviar Green 1500 GB (7200 rpm, 64mb) 2 partitions, 1 for source files, 1 for cache”

I am totally with Jeff on this one: WD Caviar Greens are rarely 7200rpm – mostly 5400rpm – on their good days. Partitioning them into caching and source segments for the purpose of editing high bandwidth video files is asking for trouble. It doesn’t mean necessarily this is the source of the problem – but it’s certainly outside of best practices.

Trash Premiere preferences, import one of the Windows sample video files (C:\Users\Public\Videos\Sample Videos\Wildlife.wmv), see if this one plays w/o stopping.

Alex (DV411)

[Tom Opdebeeck]

First of all, thank you for your quick replies, i have a video that needs to be finished by tomorrow and it’s already 1.35 am over here…

yes i’m working with cs5. i didn’t know about the problems with the hdd’s, but before i was using only the caviar green (no partitionins) and everything worked fine. Do you think the partition on the 2nd hdd might be causing the problems?

a new graphics card isn’t really an option atm, i just bought this pc in november and being a student that means i’m quite low on cash for now 🙂

where can i find the preferences exactly? i already thought of this ;yself but couldn’t find the right files to delete (or I was a little too frustrated to keep searching…)

(btw can someone explain why my keyboard layout has changed from azerty to qwerty in this posts editor o.O)

[Tom Opdebeeck]

just remembered something, when i close premiere, the process remains opened in task manager, any idea what’s going on there?

(the azerty qwerty thing is a chrome bug, problem solved)

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Tom Opdebeeck] “where can i find the preferences exactly? i already thought of this ;yself but couldn’t find the right files to delete (or I was a little too frustrated to keep searching…)”

Try this: hold down SHIFT+CONTROL when you start the program until the splash screen appears. (source)

Alex (DV411)

[Alex Gerulaitis]

Here is another way:

https://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/11/having_weird_behavior_with_an.html

Alex (DV411)

[Tom Opdebeeck]

Yeah i figured out where my preferences are saved, but it didn’t help.
Btw the material I’m using is mainly a vob, had some trouble with importing avi’s so i’m avoiding those and sticking with mpeg. I’ve used a variety of files but the situation remains.
Maybe a clean install might help, I don’t know, I could try in a few days.

[Tom Opdebeeck]

I did a fresh install of premiere pro and imported the wildlife sample video and even with that it stops playback after every freaking second…
I realy want to make this work, as it worked before and I want to learn After Effects better, but this is annoying the crap out of me(!).
Is there anyone who has an idea what could be the problem here?
The problem with the process also remains, and causes major issues when I open up premiere again, since there are 2 similar processes active then…