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Why is Premiere CS6 playback being so slow?
I am doing a project on the go, so I started using my older Early ’08 Macbook Pro to edit. I have done projects on here before, and they have been perfectly fine. I even convert all my footage to ProRes, but for some reason, everything is very laggy! I don’t even have effects on my footage, and I cranked the preview resolution down to 1/4, but when I try to scrub through the timeline, it is verrry unresponsive! Like I said, i’m even using ProRes on these clips. I do have a lot of clips to edit, would that be the cause? I hope someone can help.
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Problem solved! Before, I was trying to edit footage from an external USB 2.0 drive. I copied the footage to my main drive, and there was no lagging! Lesson learned, don’t use slow drives. Hah!
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It was on an external 1TB hard drive. I think my workflow will now be to import the raw footage from the camera to the 1TB drive, then when I convert the footage to ProRes, I will set the destination to a temporary file on my main drive. Then the original footage will be safe and untouched, while I can edit with the copies.
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