[Andrew Garley]

Martin, I wouldnt give up, Its a real hard learning curve, I have spent weeks, learning, and even to day about lower field order or higher, I am in the UK so setting are Pal, but seems most the settings are Not only Hidden, you have to go look, but are set to NTSC, would also explain some of the issues I have had.

Anyway, Hours are mounting up, but i am getting there.
I have loads of hard drives and set the scratch disks, This has helped, and turned everything else off.

Anyway, I may have not done it correctly, on the top toolbar “Sequence” I hit “render Effects in work area”
It didnt take long, said it was proccessing my clips and audio,
And Now IT PLAYS perfectly!! 50% on CPU, and it looks crystal clear, no problems what so ever now, so maybe this will help everyone, can but hope. I still dont know what i am doing in PP CS4 but this has worked what ever it did.
All the best
Andrew

[Andrew Garley]

Its a real problem with these issues, I started off Haha trying to work with HD.
My machine AMD x2 3g with 4g ram, Asus Crosshair.
OS win7 64bit. I am running the OS from a Solid State Drive.
4T of Drives and Video on a Raid 0 drive.
I recently got a Black Magic Intensity Pro, thinking some how this would fix the problems. nope.

I have a project i have to finish within a few weeks,
At the moment All I have is Footage and some Titles and some music, It will not play for more than a few seconds. Naturally I need to watch and listen to get it right. I have to keep exporting the file to view progress.
What I did find helped was upped the page file size as the HD is SSD it acts much like ram anyway, as far as I understand.

Another issue i have found is when i have been working and close a project, opening up Priemier Pro CS4 Kills the Machine, SO frequent restarts needed. I have tried ram refreshers, helps a little, but not sure I understand why the machine seems to fill up, if that makes sence.
I dont have any Games or Apps, Just Adobe and Office. on a clean Install, generally it seems to work ok, apart from Playback, the one thing you need.
I am Assuming its PC power issues, as my Dual Core Max’s out everytime i hit play.
But reading the above posts some have Quad core and the same issues?

Today I am going to try hooking up my Intensity Pro, via HDMI to an LCD TV monitor that supports 1080. and see if I can just get it to play back Via the IP card. Naturally If the CPU max’s out it will do the same.
Man its been a learning curve for sure.
Will let you know how I get on.
I would rather the system slow down that Max out the Dual core, and stop playback, I cant help wondering if I am expecting too much from my PC. Its not bang uptodate, But should do the job? maybe.
All the best
Andrew