Can someone please tell me the latest stable version of PP I can use?

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I have the full CC suite subscription, rarely use PP - but the older versions used to work fine for me for basic editing. I usually just need to chop out sections of footage - no need or effects or anything beyond fades. Anyway, just tried to use some video from an iphone, and PP CC 18 is completely unusable. The preview pane shows a static frame and when it does update, it's woefully out of sync with the audio, attempting to export results in it estimating it'll take 20 hours for a 20 minute 1080p clip! It's a mess really...

This isn't really useful - I'd like an easy way to just transcode the video to something I can import into PP 7, and edit there, as that works fine. Otherwise, suggestions for alternatives for what I need to do would be good! The only thing I really use CC for is Photoshop occasionally, so dropping my sub is kind of on my mind anyway.

My machine is an i7 4GHZ, 64GB RAM, 2 x NVME drives plus 1TB 4xSSD RAID 0 array. I have 2 x GTX1080 GPUs. Obviously this isn't enough for the current version

R Neil Haugen · Answer

Actually the biggest problem would be if the twin 1080's are in SLI, rather than separate mode.

Your iPhone video is VFR media and although 2018 is able to work with some VFR media, much still works better transcoded to CFR. If you didn't already, you can go to a bin of media, select all, right-click Modify/Interpret/Assume X framerate, wher X is the framerate setting from your phone.

Sometimes this gets VFR media working decently.

If not, you'd need to use Handbrake to convert that to CFR, then import that media instead.

VFR is rather troubling stuff to work with ... constantly varying number of video frames per second and yet a steady stream for the audio. Trying to "cut" bits of that into a sequence is an interesting job, as you're relying on the NLE to know exactly where and how to create additional frames to match the audio.

Neil

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