Jerry Michaels
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I’ve always worked with AVCHD (from Sony and Canon cameras) directly in PP on Windows, even on my old laptop (dual-core i5 SB with 8 GB RAM and GeForce 410) it worked without a hitch. So maybe there’s something wrong either with your machines, or with MacOS.
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Thanks, but is there any way to do this without involving AE? I’m only working in PPro with video, don’t even have AE installed.
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It’s weird to hear that “A lot of people have issues with h.264 because it can cause lag from high cpu usuage or strange errors”, I though decoding h.264 is like a menial task for any even not so modern CPU, even without a dedicated hardware decoder (which all CPU/GPU/APU combinations, thus all systems, have nowadays). This is the kind of sentence one would have expected to hear 10 years ago, but today?.. And how can this happen to a system that was built for video editing? My only guess would be that there’s a software problem causing this, not hardware.
Anyway, getting back to the original question: Apple ProRes is not the same as uncompressed; it is also compressed, also lossy, and also has to be decoded. Which could cause high CPU usage in some cases. In my opinion, HDD speed should not be a problem in this case, as any normally functioning HDD should be able to easily handle 220 Mbps, unless it has some problems or the system is somehow mis-configured.
People tend to have excessive requirements for storage speed these days, see the GoPro case (recommending micro-SD cards with sustained write speeds of 90 MB/s for a camera that shoots at a maximum bitrate of 60 Mbps).
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Do you happen to have an AMD graphics card? I have the same problem, and I have an AMD R9 380 card in my system, which is not on Adobe’s supported GPU list, but is practically identical to R9 285, which is on the list. Anyway, Adobe is well known for both updating this list much too late and being not very friendly with AMD/OpenCL but favoring CUDA instead (although I don’t know if CUDA gets any speed advantage, have never had the chance to test and found no comparisons on the web either).