[Greg Janza]

I see you’ve already gone down a path of using Pluraleyes but Premiere now has all of the sync functions of Pluraleyes built in.

You can sync within the Premiere timeline by simply highlighting your secondary audio tracks as well as the camera angles and then control clicking and selecting synchronize. Since you have a large number of clips you may want to create multiple timelines but there’s no need to use Pluraleyes at all.

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[Greg Janza]

If you can’t even use proxies then it’s obvious that your system isn’t tuned correctly.

Use Bill Gehrke’s system test to determine where your problems are located:

https://ppbm8.com/index.html

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[Greg Janza]

[Steve Connor] “disposable doesn’t really apply!”

If there’s anything that we can count on with Apple it’s that at any point in any of their products’ lifeline any item can be designated as disposable.

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[Greg Janza]

If your WD Blue is a single drive then that’s your problem. 4k files don’t play smoothly from a single drive. You need a raid or ssd.

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[Greg Janza]

[Bill Davis] “Meh,”

You probably have stock in Belkin.

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[Greg Janza]

Maybe you have a bottleneck with your media drive? Your specs show that you have plenty of power.

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[Greg Janza]

[Bob Thompson] “I know it’s h.264 long gop and should optimally be transcoded etc. “

You’ve answered your own question. Premiere simply doesn’t like H264 long GOP. Transcode it and you will have no problems.

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[Greg Janza]

[Bill Davis] “One might perhaps be that with a device that accompanies people on their busy daily lives – and that we increasingly rely on for personal safety and security – not compromising the devices integrity by needlessly drilling headphone jacks and data ports into it, serves to increase its reliability.”

A recent thread here clearly showed that Apple products are definitely not more reliable due to their design.

[Bill Davis] “So, in this case, isn’t this just another case of Apple not designing things the way you think they should — to best accommodate your particular needs?”

So regularly removing features that have become ubiquitous within the industry and thereby forcing users to either purchase workaround solutions or abandon those peripheral products altogether is considered a positive in your eyes? And if that argument was to be valid you’d have to show how Apple products operate in a superior fashion to others but that’s certainly not the case when looking at benchmark tests.

In addition, the clean design element of Apple products which tends to be a big selling point seems to be consistently destroyed by the endless adapters and add-on units required just to use industry standard features that Apple has deemed no longer necessary. Yep, that’s quite a positive.

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[Greg Janza]

You need a third party play back card like this one:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/decklink/techspecs/W-DLK-32

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[Greg Janza]

https://mudflatsoftware.com/

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