[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Steven,

The graphics card plays a big part in Premiere performance. You’ll want to use a new card that will enable the “GPU Acceleration” in the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine. The 8800 card is a weak link in your system.

Adobe has a short list of “approved cards” that work here: https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

Many other Nvidia cards can be made to work with a simple fix, described here: https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

Also, be sure you have a dedicated hard drive for your videos. Don’t put them on the C: drive. A 7200rpm SATA drive is recommended, and don’t get the “Green” drives, they are for power savings. You want a performance model like WD Caviar Black or Seagate Barracuda.

Update that display card and you should be happy with performance then.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Stuart,

Your video source clip may be dubious. You forgot to blur one of the titles 😉

Is the error message limited to this project alone?

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Sorry, I see now that Ryan already mentioned the 4000 card. I will add that you can put the take-out ATI card on eBay and it will sell very quickly.

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Kalvin,

You will absolutely want the Nvidia Quadro 4000 display card from PNY, as this provides the GPU acceleration in Premiere. This will provide the biggest performance boost versus other ways to spend money on upgrades(RAM, CPU, etc.)

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Stuart,

Very interesting that in the error message I see “Sonic/DVDCreator”, which is another DVD authoring software – why is this showing up in an Encore error message? Do you have the Sonic product installed? Could be some kind of conflict.

Have you tried Building to an IMAGE rather than burning a disc? If you can build an ISO file (Image), then you can burn the DVD itself with freeware like “Burn-Aware”.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Cards from different vendors may have different types of output connections like DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, etc., so be sure that the outputs suit your needs.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jack,

You will get stereo audio from the camera in the HDMI stream. The Ninja can be set to record 2-channel (stereo) audio from HDMI or the analog mini jack input, or 4-channel audio when specifying BOTH inputs. Just set up in the Ninja menu. With CS5, you would want just the two channels because Premiere won’t accept the 4-channel clips, so do a test before committing to an actual event recording and make sure the workflow is correct.

You can review the Ninja User Guide here – https://www.atomos.com/ninja/manual/ninja-user_manual.pdf

Note we expect the new Ninja 2 to be shipping in the next week or so, adds larger screen and an HDMI output.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jack,

Premiere will handle ProRes just fine, except there was a bug in CS5 and maybe into CS5.5 also (before the 5.0.3 patch) which would show ProRes files with 4-channel audio as a non-supported format when you try to import them. Note that clips with 2-channel audio worked well, so just make sure that is how you record them.

Are you looking at the Atomos recorders?

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Perry,

What is your hard drive setup? Free sizes seem small. You should at minimum have a dedicated drive just for video clips. Should be less than 80% full and of course defragmented. Turn off INDEXING on the video drive.

You say you built your own system. Did you go to the motherboard vendor site and download/install the specific hardware drivers, or just let Windows install generic stuff? For best performance, install any specific hardware drivers offered by motherboard vendor.

When importing AVCHD footage, use the MEDIA BROWSER in Premiere to find/import clips, rather than just Importing.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

It is customary to share what the fix was, possibly helping the next guy with a similar issue, but also just to satisfy the curiosity of folks who read the post and want to know the answer – maybe they can use that knowledge to help someone else someday

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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