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Shane Mcconnell
April 2, 2010 at 2:21 pm in reply to: Premiere CS4 trouble.

UPDATE

So I pulled the ATI card–however before I did this- a new driver was released and I noticed a big difference in playback (even across 4 monitors). I found on Craigslist two nVidia Quadro 3400 cards for $25. One of the cards has a broken capacitor–however I did throw the working card into my machine and noticed a difference immediatley.
I also spent the $200 to pick up a Blackmagic Intensity card. So im down to two monitors for application window and a third (preview) playback attached to the Blackmagic. It is running smooth now–and I am finally editing in CS4.

Anyone know of a electronics repair shop so I can get this second Quadro card running? The component that is chipped is too small for me to solder
Shane Mcconnell
March 5, 2010 at 5:24 am in reply to: Stepping into Real-Time editing hardware-advice needed from the experts

Great- thank you for the responses so far! I am thinking that a Quadro FX 3800 card may be the way to go- this way I am supporting Adobe’s Mercury playback engine whenever it happens to surface..and picking up a performance gain in the interim. A Matrox card does sound very tempting tho. I really have to sit and think about this!

The partner certified drivers for the Quadro cards for Adobe are only 32bit OS supported. The nVidia “Performance drivers” and others for the Quadro support 64bit OS’s. Will I see the same results or performance gains with the non-partner certified driver??
Shane Mcconnell
March 4, 2010 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Stepping into Real-Time editing hardware-advice needed from the experts

I was running brand new build of Windows 7 64bit, all the latest everything (drivers, updates) about 35 days ago and I couldn’t even get CS4 to launch. I would execute and whammo- big fat crash w/ report. I sent about 40 of those crash reports with my email info and a description almost everytime so “one of the Adobe Engineers could review and possibly contact” HA- that will be the day. Anyways I went through the painful process of uninstalling and rolling back to XP 64bit..haven’t had a crash yet.
Shane Mcconnell
March 4, 2010 at 4:03 am in reply to: Premiere CS4 trouble.

Just as a follow up:

I did reinstall CS4. My problems regarding Media Encoder linger a little. It does start and encode the project now- so that was the big issue at hand. NOW the next problem is it takes 3x the amount of time to encode a 10min HDV project to h264 than Premiere CS3 with the old internal media encoder. I ran a side by side comparison.

My performance with CS4 is still way below average.
I don’t understand these CS4 issues. I spent $800 for a few extra features and my life in the editing room has gone to hell. Flawless, smooth, streamlined editing with CS3 on the same machine, same drivers and exact same HDV footage. Upgrade to CS4 as described above and its like I went back in time 3 years.
Shane Mcconnell
February 21, 2010 at 5:14 pm in reply to: Premiere CS4 trouble.

Thanks- yep I did the shortcut / dynamic link folder thing a few days back following the directions from Adobe Support. It of course failed to do anything.

When is says it failed to load the file, it is referencing the file in the documents and settings/local settings/temp folder. I thought that was a strange place for a file to end up? I have media cache and scratch disk paths set to specific places. I checked the path and it is copying the project file over there.
Does yours do the same?