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September 30, 2019
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Choppy playback editing problem solved. I still have questions

  • September 30, 2019
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I get a little tired of not being able to learn or work with adobe premiere pro that I called the help line for one more shot. They did that screen share thing and the guy appeared to do some things and when it was all over he showed me that my laptop did not have what it needed to run this program. It had zero graphics and the RAM did not meet the minimum. So I went out and got me a new "gaming"laptop now it's all clicking click, click, click. I'm still running in moron mode but now I can make mistakes and start all over without wasting my life waiting for things to load or shutdown. Problem solved. 
now I have 2 questions. 
when the guy was showing me things he pointed to a small light that showed "dropped frames".on the new laptop I don't see that little light. How do I get it. 
I also do a lot with greenscreen. I shoot with a SONY A6300. When I go to edit what I shoot it starts out in giant size in the monitor. I can scal it down easy enough but is it normal?  Am I doing something wrong. 
thank you. 
tom. 

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    Warren Heaton
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    Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 30, 2019

    Smooth playback is almost entirely about sustained data transfer rate.  Your storage media must exceed the data transfer rate required by your footage.

     

    I really like using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test when I need to quicly measure and clarify disk performance; however, it's for macOS.  

     

    When it comes to the formats that the Sony A6300 shoots, you also have the overhead of decompressing XAVC S or MPEG-4 AVC/H.264.   I'd recommend transcoding that to Apple ProRes 422 (LT) and cutting that instead (the files will be larger) or taking advantage of Premiere Pro's Proxy Workflow to generate 1280x720 Apple ProRes 422 (LT) attached proxies to use while editing that can be switch off when needed while editing and Premiere Pro will automatically use the camera orignals when exporting.

     

    It's good to hear that you upgraded to a gaming laptop.  If its' good for gaming, it's probably good for editing.  Of course, it's easy to spend $2,000 to $3,000 on a well equiped gaming laptop.

     

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      Sumeet_Kumar_Choubey
      Adobe Employee
      September 30, 2019

      Hi Tom,

       

      To enable the Dropped Frame indicator, please follow the steps provided by Neil. Sony A6300 shoots in 4K and if you are bringing these 4K files in a lower resolution timeline/sequence. You may notice that the preview is zoomed in. To fix this, you need to match the sequence frame size with that of the media used. 

      Select your timeline and go to Sequence > Sequence settings. Set the Frame size to 3840 x 2160 (in case you are working 4K files).

      Also, when you are starting a new timeline/sequence, creating a sequence by right-clicking on the media in the Project panel and selecting New Sequence from Clip will ensure that your sequence is created using the properties of the media file used.

      Hope it helps. Let us know if you have any questions.

       

      Thanks,

      Sumeet

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      thomash93813917Author
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      October 1, 2019
      The sequence is set to 3840 x 2160.
      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
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      September 30, 2019

      In the Program monitor panel, click the wrench icon to bring up the menu ... and select "Show dropped frames indicator".

       

      Neil

       

       

       

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