[Poo Yan]

Thanks for your post. I think it’s got excellent stuff in it, and shows a real concern for newbie users like me. And I can appreciate the desire to keep things running smoothly and presenting valuable information. My preoccupation with moderation is that I’ve never experienced a probationary period to join a forum. It’s a new and strange experience. Again, I understand the reasoninig behind it.

As for my ability to contribute to the forum, i don’t have a great ability to do so right now, as I’m learning some of the ropes of video, video editing, Premiere Pro, and the peculiarities of the Creative Cow. Needless to say, a few of these topics have, in my opinion, a steep learning curve. I don’t really have much to contribute, since this isn’t my area of expertise. I’m sure you know what I mean.

[Tim Wilson] “I do understand your concern that your posts aren’t being seen by experienced people who can answer them, but that has not generally been our experience. The fact is that the majority of our senior members are happy to answer those questions, and many of the most active posters in our Beginner forums are also our most senior.”

So far, I’ve gotten good results from people who seem to know a lot more about all of this than I, so I’m not complaining about the quality of the answers I’ve received; I would, of course, like to have even more excellent, contributing members see my post in the hopes of a more expeditious answer, or more thorough one, or the chance of starting a healthy dialog about the question, with lots of ideas.

I really appreciate this post, Tim. Keep up the great work!

Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 660
32GB RAM
SSD for the OS
WD Black 2TB for Video.

[Poo Yan]

Thanks for your response. I didn’t see the “activity” link, which is exactly what I wanted. My searches didn’t work, probably because at the time my post had not yet made prime-time.

Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 660
32GB RAM
SSD for the OS
WD Black 2TB for Video.

[Poo Yan]

I’m currently running a conversion test for the clips, as mentioned above. We’ll see if that goes. I suppose this could be a hardware bottleneck, but we’ll see.

I appreciate the help so far; can anyone help me further? I know it’s a holiday weekend here in the US – thanks for any assistance!

Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 660
32GB RAM
SSD for the OS
WD Black 2TB for Video.

[Poo Yan]

And yet another observation. This one is hopefully very helpful to you folks. I notice that when I’m playing back a section of timeline with only one video source, it MIGHT play back well, and use 10% or so of the GPU. When I’m playing a single video source and a second source enters on the timeline (like a picture-in-picture overlay) the GPU usage drops instantly to 1% or so and the slideshow starts.

I hope I helped you help me.

Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 660
32GB RAM
SSD for the OS
WD Black 2TB for Video.

[Poo Yan]

I forgot to mention that I haven’t yet encoded to Cineform, as I’m hoping to tackle these problems without having to transcode.

Of note: I just tried playing some 1080p picture-in-picture overlay action while watching GPU-Z. The GPU load didn’t move from 1%. The video, predictably, was a slideshow.

Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 660
32GB RAM
SSD for the OS
WD Black 2TB for Video.

[Poo Yan]

I, like everyone else, want to be unmoderated as quickly as possible, mostly because I noticed that the default option upon account creation is to hide Newbie posts. Being a newbie, I really would like my question to get out to the largest pool of people in the hopes that someone with similar experience can help me. We’ll just have to be patient, I suppose. Thanks for the excellent site.

Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 660
32GB RAM
SSD for the OS
WD Black 2TB for Video.

[Poo Yan]

[Joe Marler] “My system specs aren’t too different from yours:

Windows Home Premium 64-bit, i7-875K @ 4 Ghz, 16GB RAM, GTX-660 2GB, 1TB 10k rpm boot drive, 2x 2TB 7200 rpm Caviar Black data drives in RAID 0. Apps and scratch disk on 10k rpm drive, video files on 2-drive RAID 0.”

Thanks for the response. And sorry for the late reply!

I think your specs are considerably different than mine. Very quick processor and RAID 0, so maybe my system, particularly the CPU, simply isn’t powerful enough to handle it. I’m running off the black 2tb drive now, so that shouldn’t be the bottleneck. I really think it’s my processor. It’s frustrating because I’m only utilizing between 35% and 60% or so when the video is chopping out at 2-3fps. I’d like to force it to use more. Poo. Setting Premiere’s priority via the Task Manager has no noticeable effect.

What are the chances that Premiere Pro is attempting to use the native HD4000 graphics rather than my GTX 660?

[Joe Marler] “f I turn off Mercury rendering it is a bit more sluggish, so make sure you have that on and it’s working. Add an accelerated effect like Fast Color Corrector, and make sure the render bar stays yellow. If not, Mercury is not working.”

Did that, the yellow bar remained, so I suppose it’s working. I’m surprised how little effect my card has, though. Maybe when I find and alleviate the bottleneck the card’s assistance will shine.

[Joe Marler] “You didn’t state the drive interface. Do not ever edit from a 5400 rpm USB 2.0 drive — they are just too slow.”

My work drive is internal. In fact, I never really do anything with external. I just back up over the network from time to time.

I appreciate the help that you folks are trying to give.

Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 660
32GB RAM
SSD for the OS
WD Black 2TB for Video.

[Poo Yan]

[EricBowen] “https://gopro.com/3d-cineform-studio-software-download/

Download that and convert the files to Cineform. I assume since the playback is so poor you are using CS6. You will want to convert the files if so. I suggest you get a Black drive for video and use the Green for archive. You do not want variable spin rate drives for work drives.

Eric-ADK
Tech Manager”

Thanks for the response.

I have that installed. I was actually trying to render my finished project to that codec and got a nag screen about not being liscenced with 64-bit, blah blah blah. Silly.

I’m am indeed using CS6. I sure wish it would use more of my RAM. I have 32GB available, after all. And it’s set to performance within CS6.

As for the drive, yeah, I’m going to get a better one, probably today. That being said, it doesn’t answer the mystery of bad playback from an SSD…

I’ll try your suggestion about converting the files. The GoPro records directly to .MP4. What will I be using the Cineform to record to, exactly? Or will that be readily apparent once I’m there?

Thanks again!

Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 660
32GB RAM
SSD for the OS
WD Green 1TB for Video.

[Poo Yan]

[James Kumorek] “What version of Premiere Pro are you using?
How much memory does your system have?
Run the GPUSNiffer.exe program in a CMD window (the program is in the Adobe Premiere installation directory). Does it say it will use your GPU?
Instead of adding the GPU to the list, simply delete the file of supported GPUs altogether. Or make sure that the name the GPUSniffer program reports is exactly hwo you entered the name in the list.
What’s your CPU utilization when playing back? What’s your memory utilization when playing back?”

Thanks for the response.

CS6
32GB
Did the sniffer, it’s fine. Edited log, it’s fine. Erased log, still not too much love. Although during rendering I noticed that the GPU utilization went up to about 12%, so that’s better than nothing.
CPU = 35-50% on playback.
RAM is around 7GB on playback.

Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 660
32GB RAM
SSD for the OS
WD Green 1TB for Video.

[Poo Yan]

Hit ctrl+T. Then just make a simple text line. Hopefully that’s what you meant. It doesn’t have to be elaborate.

Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 660
32GB RAM
SSD for the OS
WD Green 1TB for Video.