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When you say PP needs to render before it trys to play in realtime, is the line above the work area GREEN or RED? If its green and you get the choppy playback then PP is having a problem playing back at full frame rate as it does not NEED to render. Change the playback quality to draft and see if it improves
If the line above the work area is red and it wont render, create a new sequence and drag your original sequence to the new one (nest it). Hit enter and see if that helps.

ProStar 5614 Laptop
P4 Northwood 3.2 800FSB.
1 gig 3200 DDR SDRAM
2 7200 rpm,60 gig HDD
1 250 Diamond Max HDD
Teac -R-RW burner
Sony DRU-510A -R/ R burner
ATI 9600 MPRO 128 meg.
17″ AUX. monitor
13″ NTSC monitor
DV break-out
Bella keyboard

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Nested the sequence in to a new one, added some more stills to finish the project. That did the trick and all is well. Thanks for the idea, as I was toooooooo close to the problem. Still dont know what happened but it got me down the road so to speak.

Harry

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Thanks Roger, I’m on it

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Yep, check it. no help still a red line. thanks for the input though

ProStar 5614 Laptop
P4 Northwood 3.2 800FSB.
1 gig 3200 DDR SDRAM
2 7200 rpm,60 gig HDD
1 250 Diamond Max HDD
Teac -R-RW burner
Sony DRU-510A -R/ R burner
ATI 9600 MPRO 128 meg.
17″ AUX. monitor
13″ NTSC monitor
DV break-out
Bella keyboard

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It renders fine in Premiere Elements 1.0

ProStar 5614 Laptop
P4 Northwood 3.2 800FSB.
1 gig 3200 DDR SDRAM
2 7200 rpm,60 gig HDD
1 250 Diamond Max HDD
Teac -R-RW burner
Sony DRU-510A -R/ R burner
ATI 9600 MPRO 128 meg.
17″ AUX. monitor
13″ NTSC monitor
DV break-out
Bella keyboard

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I too run a lap. It runs my second monitor and my aux TV through a pinnnacle moviebox.
I can capture through the built-in fire-wire port, or through an auxillary DVD burner that I can daisy-chain through the burner which in turn goes through the DV movie box.
I have tried with my PCIMIA fire-wire/USB 2 card which I have my video storage drive on and it works fine as well.
My lap specs are below but my camera is a Sony DCR-PC9. Running XP PRO pack 2 with PPRO 1-5.1

ProStar 5614 Laptop
P4 Northwood 3.2 800FSB.
1 gig 3200 DDR SDRAM
2 7200 rpm,60 gig HDD
1 250 Diamond Max HDD
Teac -R-RW burner
Sony DRU-510A -R/ R burner
ATI 9600 MPRO 128 meg.
17″ AUX. monitor
13″ NTSC monitor
DV break-out
Bella keyboard

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I dont have experience with the Pent. M. I have read here that they erform great with a good battery life. My Pent 4 is 2 years old now and I love it from a performance perspective. Up your ram if you can. I have a gig and wish I had more. My specs should follow the signature.

Harry

ProStar 5614 Laptop
P4 Northwood 3.2 800FSB.
1 gig 3200 DDR SDRAM
2 7200 rpm,60 gig HDD
1 250 Diamond Max HDD
Teac -R-RW burner
Sony DRU-510A -R/ R burner
ATI 9600 MPRO 128 meg.
17″ AUX. monitor
13″ NTSC monitor
DV break-out
Bella keyboard

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If you will do a post search on “laptops”, quite a bit comes up on several posts in the past.
Short version, get all you can afford, cpu ram, and vid card.

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ProStar 5614 Laptop
P4 Northwood 3.2 800FSB.
1 gig 3200 DDR SDRAM
2 7200 rpm,60 gig HDD
1 250 Diamond Max HDD
Teac -R-RW burner
Sony DRU-510A -R/ R burner
ATI 9600 MPRO 128 meg.
17″ AUX. monitor
13″ NTSC monitor
DV break-out
Bella keyboard

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I didnt have the problem until I downloaded SP 2 for XP. I restored to before the update and it was fine. Adobe has this fix at It took care of the problem for me and I could update to SP 2 with no probs.

https://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/330380.html

ProStar 5614 Laptop
P4 Northwood 3.2 800FSB.
1 gig 3200 DDR SDRAM
2 7200 rpm,60 gig HDD
1 250 Diamond Max HDD
Teac -R-RW burner
Sony DRU-510A -R/ R burner
ATI 9600 MPRO 128 meg.
17″ AUX. monitor
13″ NTSC monitor
DV break-out
Bella keyboard