Premiere Pro CC 2014 - Choppy multicam playback

I've had exactly the same problems
I have found a solution
1.Render all audio files
2.When you make your proxies, encode them to .MOV, not H.264
Those two actions took me from being completely unable to use multi-cam, to completely fluid editing with 20 simultaneous streams of 4k footage

I am running a PC with a quad core xeon processor, 32Gs of RAM, 2 internal SSD's, 2 NVidia GPU's and the latest version of PP.

I have no issues editing in multi-camera with 5 camera angles, ProRes 422, even at max. bit depth and max. render quality.

But I have to deal with up to 300GB's/day and have to transcode so we don't blow up our storage. Once the clips sequences have been created, we transcode them. That is when the fun begins!!!! Have tried AVC-Intra and DNxHR/DNxHD MXF OP1a.

We only keep about 20 minutes of the original 1.5 to 2 hours of footage.

Can anyone recommend another codec to try, forget cineform, huge?

Adobe, please fix the multi-camera issue.

Adobe, please add the capability to trim video without having to transcode.

Signed,

Extremely Frustrated!

I have a maxed out 2015 iMac and I was also having performance issues with multicam and I'm doing 6 cameras on a dance show.  I tried tons of different things from changing the sequence settings, settings in performance ect..  One thing that made a night and day different was changing the settings in the playback options when you click the wrench.  Uncheck "High Quality Playback" and its working perfectly now with my resolution drop down set to full.  I hope this helps someone out there because  I was face rolling my head on my keyboard for 2 days.

Not Sure if this will work for you but I had the same problem and tried everything. Every time I would use the multicam edit it would start off working and after a few seconds it would start dropping frames, lagging and being really choppy. I couldn't even edit it was so bad. I  tried the adjusting resolution, tried different codecs, searched the forums and all I found was a million people with the same problem and no answer. Tried Adobe and got the run around. Tried a previous version of Adobe. No luck. I even upgraded my graphics card and built a desktop computer with all the bells and whistles. No change. Then I started thinking about my external drive and called a friend. All of the footage I was trying to edit was on an external hard drive. It wasn't like one of them fancy ones. Just a normal western digital. I called a friend and he said to try to copy all of the footage I wanted to edit to my MAIN hard drive of the computer in a new folder. I did that and also created a folder on the main hard drive to point all my scratch disk settings to. Then I started a new project from the new folders and made another multicam sequence with 5 video tracks and 1 audio. It played PERFECT!!  No dropped frames, smooth playback with every clip. I guess the external hard drive wont let the computer pull the info out fast enough and it makes it lag and look choppy. I guess a good analogy would be that it's like trying to drink a milkshake with a coffee straw. Once i put the footage on my main drive I've had no problems yet. I hope this works for you as well. I see alot of people with this issue. Please let me know if it works for you

J in Phoenix

Hello friends , my problem I think is the same of you and found a temporary solution .

When editing in multicam the audio is flawed at times. What could find that when selecting a video only the audio from that video that will be played , or if the selected camera does not have audio in multicam be without it as well.

To end this I Unlike video and audio line team and clik with dirieto button on the audio and choose the camera you want the audio to be played that was the recorded audio . As the audio was captured did not have a video for him, so I created a video team for the captured audio and it worked.

Howdy, all!

Well, I believe it was SeeingSounds who posted it first on this thread - but transcoding to DNxHD, and then off-lining all my clips and re-linking them to the DNxHD footage - HAS SAVED MY HASH, and possibly my sanity. Runs like buttah now. Well, almost - but it runs, and it runs well, and all three streams just toodle along, with no major stuttering at all.

Any of the approved codecs should really just WORK - but since many don't, this workaround is the way to go for me.

Thanks, guys!

Here was my solution... Choppy, playback lag, audio and video - Premiere Pro CC

Has anyone fixed this issue yet?

I can't get any of my projects done because of this. I seriously can only edit for 10 mins before it stutters on multicam. Ive spent so much money and time just getting a 7 min short done.

Yes, i have same problem.

Mac Pro Late 2013, OS X 10.9.5, Premiere 2014.2

All video is ProRes 422 HQ, 1080i

I am also having this issue. I am running the latest CC build available on a MBP 15' Mid 2014 w/ GeForce 750 GPU on Yosemite 10.10.1.

Any plans for a patch?