Norman Greenwood
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MPE hardware only works with Nvidia cards, so this may be why you get the stutters.
One other thing I read was that you should upgrade your OSX to 10.7.4 after the update. I just posted a link to that article to a post in here above yours.
It may or may not help, but you can delete the preview files, but I doubt this would have any true relation to crashes. But on a Mac I can’t be certain.
I have also been reading a lot of posts about crashes while using external drives. May not be the cause, but when I work on my PC I like to have the files actually on the computer. However, I use SSD, RAID Hybrids, and RAID SATA. I do work off external drives as well, but I prefer not to. But in the instance of using a Mac, I do know that it is much safer to do so.
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I think this must be a keyframe/evolution mishap. Evolution will be the part of the effect that will cause the animation. Be sure that you click the stopwatch next to evolution on your start frame. The move to your end frame and change the value of evolution. This will automatically create a second keyframe so that you have animation.
A tip: You can also right-click on the keyframes in the Effects panel and choose Ease-in or Ease-out. This just makes a smooth start and end. Ease-in would be for your last keyframe, and Ease-out for your last. Weird logically, I know, but it’s how it is.
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Ann is completely right, don’t do anything while capturing, it can cause many issues. I’ve made that mistake myself.
However, you may be able to turn off the sound if you really want to do some tutorials. If you are running Windows (I am using Windows 7), you can click on the sound in the lower-right corner and you’ll see “Mixer”. Click on that and you will see your applications running (i.e. Firefox, PP, etc.). You can then turn off the sound for just PP while listening to other things. I have never tried it while capturing, but since it is using PP I can’t see why not.
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I definitely understand the need to work off of external devices when using Mac, but is there too many files that you can’t temporarily have a copy of them on your computer to use?
I presently use a SSD, a RAID of Hybrids, and SATA drives. I never seem to have any problems on any of them when editing. I also have some external drives that I can edit from, and they are slow. However, I am on a PC.
32GB of RAM should be more than sufficient, and 2.4GHz should get you by. But what about your graphics card? That could come into play depending on how many filters and how complex they are. If you’re using ATI, you’re not using hardware MPE, which can obviously be done without, but I would suggest against it for serious projects.
Lastly, what kind of DSLR footage are you working with. This could have something to do with it as well.
My suggestion, for now, output the file first without filters (assuming it doesn’t crash). Then bring it back in and use filters. If you didn’t want to lose quality you could use a codec that can be uncompressed, but you will output a HUGE file, and it would take forever to do.
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I’m not using CS6 at the moment, but try going to export and see if the options appear from there as they would for the work area options.
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Hmm. How did you obtain the clip (e.g. YouTube, recording, etc.)? When you look at the audio is it blank or does it give waveforms? If you play it normally, does the audio work?
I would do one of two things, without knowing the answers to my questions, find the clip on a place like YouTube and get it from there. Or, convert the video to a different format and try seeing if that works.
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Just in case I’m wrong, I am thinking that you want the AIFF files to be synced with the movie files?
If so, try linking them together first and then the option for multi-camera.
The only other way I understand this is that you are trying to use the multi-camera option on audio files, which I don’t think works.
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Have you tried other codecs to export to? Are you doing a lot of effects or anything of the such? If so, this could pose a problem with your system. If you’re using a “special” version of CS6, this is very likely the culprit. Also, be sure you have the CS6.0.1 update, and have upgraded to OSX 10.7.4 according to this article: https://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2012/05/premiere-pro-cs6-6-0-1-update-bug-fixes-and-improved-opencl-performance.html
On a side note, be sure to render everything first, and then select the option the Use Previews when exporting.
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I’m with you, go for the new lenses first. That’s exactly what I did. In the meantime, try a few random things like checking how to best optimize your mac. I know there’s a few programs out there that clean up files and whatnot. See if you can delete any unnecessary programs. Search for ways to speed up your performance in general. I’m fortunate that I can overclock my 8-core to 4GHz, so processor-intensive items aren’t so bad.
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Sorry, didn’t catch the iMac part, however I have heard that Apple can do these type of upgrades (give a call, couldn’t hurt). However, if you’re on an iMac, and serious about editing, a desktop is the way to go.
I am not a big fan of Apple in general as I understand hardware very well and popular biased opinion is usually based on what one has heard, not what they know. That being said, iMacs are good for most Adobe products, however programs like Premiere and After Effects will do wonders on a good desktop.