Mathew Haycock
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“Are you using the AVCHD/Canon DSLR sequence settings when you create a new sequence? Should be in the list when you first create one…”
The following: ‘>’ denotes folder
I am using AVCHD>1080i>AVCHD 1080i25 (50i)
I’m using a Sony HDV (tapeless, card recording) camera (ask for model if required)
Other folders are: >AVC-Intra, >Canon XF MPEG2, >Digital SLR…
The DSLR folder has not interlaced frames support, which makes sense as most DSLR’s are sold or firmware upgraded to progressive recording. (eg. 1080p24fps, rather than my 1080i25 as above)
I am getting lost as to why a brand new computer can’t perform above our last old beast machine, especially when advertised otherwise. Are we sure academic version of cs5 isn’t causing hiccups?
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“Not really. You couldn’t run CS5 at all under Windows if it was the 32bit version. Unlike OSX, there are two separate installs for Windows, one 32bit and one 64bit, and never the twain shall meet.”
So I know my system is 64bit based, and I’ve just found out the installed version of CS5 (5.03) is an educational or ‘Academic’ version for windows 32bit. Does that matter? I noticed in the image below that i do have mercury engine enabled.
I also re-installed a newer NVidia Quadro 2000 CUDA driver that didn’t change anything.
Thoughts?
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“AVCHD even works on a Mac Mini with Final Cut Express/iMovie.
Are your cards supported CUDA cards?
Did you do a clean install?
Are your drivers up to date?
You gotta love Windows.”Cards are supported.
Clean install? Please divulge. I did not do the install, we had our IT systems manager do it. Fail?I’ll need to check the drivers, could be the source of my woes.
Mathew
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“The Quadro 2000 is approved for Mercury Playback, and it should automatically be recognized by CS5.5”
We’ve only installed CS5. Will 5.5 change anything?
“In Premiere, go to Project Settings > General, and look under “Video Rendering and Playback” – it should say “Mercury GPU” if it recognizes the Nvidia card. If it says “software” try changing it in the drop-down.”
Although I’m not on site in the office today I know for sure that the mercury engine is not showing. I’ll double check the drop down menu and get back to you.
“You didn’t say what effects you’ve applied – not all Adobe effects are going to be realtime. Does the clip play smoothly without any effects on it?”
Fast color corrector and RGB curves. Yes, it does play rather smoothly with no effects, however I have notice the lag a bit even there.
“Right-click in the Program Monitor window and change the Playback Resolution settings and see if that helps. The default is HALF, but I’ve seen AVCHD footage look poor this way, and changing to FULL solves the issue.”
I remember changing the res not actually having an effect on the drop frames or lag. Furthermore, the clips still lag when rendered!
Mathew