[Gene Colburn — email address bounces notices]

Hi Leo

Without knowing much about your system, its hard to say. One thing you could try would be to look at the icons on the right side of the windows taskbar at the bottom of your screen. You can usually double click them, and exit out of them. They are applications that are running in the background. It is possible that the system you have is fighting for internal horsepower if there are multiple applications running in the background. Closing them down may help audition take advantage of what you have, and be able to play the timeline. It sounds like you are close to working, so there is most likely a simple solution

Regards
Gene

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I was assuming you were going to encore, but reread says not so. I don’t know unless it could be some setting export violation. I have exported fine with 24P progressive, but only as tests, not for final burn.

Gc

[Gene Colburn — email address bounces notices]

Try to pre transcode the original m2v, prior burn. You can do so by selecting the video clips from the project tab and telling encore to manual transcode. I wonder though if your export from PPro was 24P or are you expecting Encore to do the transcode?

GC

[Gene Colburn — email address bounces notices]

whats the end action for the menu?

[Gene Colburn — email address bounces notices]

Some players cannot sustain an 8mbs CBR read. Try 6800mbs CBR, and see if you are not happier with the end result.

[Gene Colburn — email address bounces notices]

Adam
This could be caused by a couple of things. System drive performance, or really fragmented hard drive. Are you using a removable hard drive that may not be keeping up? Is your project dual layer? Any clues you provide, will give forum users a better eye into what it is that may be causing your problem. In the mean time, you can try to go the project tab, click on the video file independently, and where it says transcoding (auto) you can force a manual transcode before burn, and see if that buys you anything. You can do it with each element that needs to be transcoded. When it is finished transcoding, you can then try a burn.

Hope that helps

GC

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OK Ok… I wasn’t going to do this. Once its in print, you can’t take it back…
And hopefully not sounding like some kind of snobby authority, I am partial to the K8WE,(Thunder) and the Opteron 254’s which are coming down to affordable. There are other dual core options, but with very little gain when none of the video apps use the additional core technology effectively. The K8 is an expensive solution because of ECC ram and SSI power supply and cooling requirements. The downside to this MB is that neither the onboard Nvidia SATA raid, nor the dual channel U320 SCSI controller are internally fast enough for herking uncompressed HD. However they are plenty fast enough to do 10 bit 4.2.2 digibeta stuff, and other HD storage solutions are options.
We build K8WE systems for other clients, with the Quadro 4500, and Multi Bridge Extreme. Its a great solution for Premiere Suite of apps. If you hold your breath long enough Vista will ship, and Adobe will eventually take advantage of 64 bit CPU technology, be it Intel AMD or both. In the mean time you have an editor that will edit and keep up with the best of them, and the BM MBE drivers so far are very stable.
I love the Adobe Suite. I’ve been lucky enough in the last ten years of working with almost every other branded editing solution. However it is becoming apparent to me that the above solution is more capable than many other solutions in the frey. I wanted mixed format editing, better asset management,and better audio editing from Adobe, but there are no show stoppers. Instead we got dynamic link, bridge, and awesome integration. It has taken us a while to warm up to them, but now were happy. With above compliment of hardware and Adobe, there really aren’t any stoppers. Avids OMF isnt exactly the cats meow, ask any Avid editor. Its essentially a closed system. FCP… once your past the pazazz, what do you have? Great cookies, but its not Adobe. I do love MACs, and unix, but its not Adobe. Hardware is expensive, and plugins are too. And now ( I can’t beleive it X86 archetecture on the MAC) If I had the money would I go there. No…. I was almost ready to build the G5 dream machine,and trade in all of our Adobe stuff, especially after Premiere 1.5.

(As a side note, the Asus A8N32SLI referrered to in previous post with a dual core 4800 cpu is as fast to render HD stuff as the K8 with 254’s. It just won’t run the additional hardware reliably, I’m sorry… And the OB audio sucks. Premiere went not responding numerous times on a simple system build. What else can I say. Maybe someone else can build it better. We keep looking for the best of all worlds, but it just seems you spend and spend more, and every solution has some downside. Many times they are stoppers. So far the K8WE runs, but there’s always a bigger kid on the block. You asked me for reccomendation. I don’t really have any other than the above experiences.

Regards
GC

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The A8N-VM does have southbridge, so I should not say all of the A8 series boards, and who knows, there may be some others out there.
GC

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The chipset may work for dual graphics card, but we could never get it to reliably run a multibridge extreme with a 4 lane PCIe adapter, no matter what BIOS settings, or versions. It would boot and run one time, but not the next. Also if it did boot and run, our 4 drive SATA array would quit recognizing associated drives (with SSC enabled, and NCQ fixes installed). The ASUS forum is full of similiar complaints. We have it running fine with AMD4800 and Nvidia 7800GTX and as a 1394 dv editor only. Rock solid, and fast. I am curious if you are running it with Decklink Extreme PCI or PCIe card? One of the problems with this chipset is the lack of a southbridge controller like the K8WE. and with all iteritations of Nvidia 4 chipset motherboards. I have a feeling that future BIOS releases may address some additional setup tweaks for PCIe. But PEG link settings are usless in setting this pup up.
PS I don’t usually post these kind of replies, as they end up being my setup works better than yours kind of matches. I am just letting you know what we found with the A8N series boards, and sometimes its good to share if it saves some other guy some headaches.

Gene Colburn

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Believe me your system won’t rock. I have built Premiere Pro systems with the A8N, A8NE, A8NSLI, and A8NSLI32 deluxe. The Nvidia chipset in these products does not lend itself to our needs. Without getting overly technical, the chipset does not share resources with anything the way you need. It is a hot gamer board and thats all. A motherboard that will run a hot graphics cared. If you need to install any other peripherials such as a Decklink, Aja Kona, or Matrox Axio LE etc, you will be waisting both time and money. Norman gave good advice in a previous post. Also the Tyan thunder K8WE would be much better choice if you are partial to AMD. It will run anything you throw at it. PS we did manage to get an A8NSLI32 to run a BM multibridge extreme, but at sacrifice to the SATA controller, and any other pci peripherial installed. None of the other boards would even do that.

Regards
GC
Systems integrator
Station 3 Media