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Anonymous
March 16, 2013

I'm confused by these responses; they are all dated last year, and; I would guess, not relevant to v11 or to my computer; the specs of which I included in my post. 

There is a respose asking if I'm bringing media in through Primiere or  Explorer.  The asnwer is that I  bring media in using Premiere's Add media option.

There was a queston asking "what is a clip"... which seem axiomatic; a short video segment, a short recording or a section of video that has been "cut" and saved on the timeline or that is being viewed in the edit window.

I was hoping to get some feedback as to my computer's resources; is my graphics card adiquat to the task, do I have enough memory, is my processer fast enough, are there Profile settings that I might not be aware of; that might smooth scrub performance; should I consider changing the "Scetch Disk:" settings; etc.

btw my video media comes from a Canaon 60D, recored using default settings and inported using Premiere's default settings.

the_wine_snob
the_wine_snob
Inspiring
March 16, 2013

Mike,

I did not find the specs. of your computer. With H.264 CODEC footage, the most important aspect will be the CPU speed. Then, installed RAM would be next, but down the list quite a bit.

As for the media being on an external HDD, what is the speed in RPM of that HDD, and also what is the connection type, i.e. USB 2.0, FireWire 800, eSATA, USB 3.0, etc.?

Good luck,

Hunt

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Anonymous
March 16, 2013

Hi Hunt, thanks for you reply,

I don't know how to link the message number: 5146692#5146692, my orginal post, but if you can find it using that number you will see the specs of my Dell Studio 540 computer.

As for my HD, it is a pretty new Seagate; Free Agent GoFlex,  1.5 TB drive, but I can't find a USB number.  I'm assuming, since it is such a large capacity drive, that it would be 3.

I have pored over a lot of the responses here and, I must confess, it's mosty Greek to me.  I'm using Premiere Elements, not Pro, so much of the responses don't seem relevent or are just too hi-tech for me; who is not a "newbe" to computers or CS5 but who is pretty new to video editing.  To date I have moved through version 7-11 but, to be honest, I haven't done a lot of editing in any of them, although I don't recall this prolem in  previous versions.

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Anonymous
September 24, 2012

The clip doesn't studder when I watch it using Microsoft media player, but when I try and preview the clip within the software it studders.

John T Smith
Community Expert
John T SmithCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 24, 2012

1st... read about the difference between Play -VS- Edit http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1066154

2nd... what does "The clip" mean?

Please start a new thread, and... These questions below may be for a different product... but the information you need to supply is the same, for the products you use

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More information needed for someone to help... click these links and provide the requested information

-http://forums.adobe.com/message/4200840

-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/416679

-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419406

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Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037

What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811

What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037

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Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... a screen shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/592070?tstart=30

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For PC http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en or http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

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Anonymous
September 29, 2012

Something is not functioning correctly on your computer -- assuming that your 3.0 ghz processor is a dual core or quad core and not a Pentium 3.0 ghz. And assuming you used Premiere Elements to catpure your video over a FireWire connection.

Do you have more than one hard drive? Has your hard drive been cleaned and defragmented?

Any details you can provide would be very helpful. With a decently powered computer, you should have no problems editing and playing HDV footage.

(Are there red lines above your clips when you add them to your timeline? That would be an indicator that your project is not set up correctly.)


Dual core processor, one HD.

It is a brand new computer, but I did run system clean and defrag, just to be sure

I am capturing the video from mini DV tape. Camera is set to HDV.

Premiere Elements says project settings match.

I don't see any preview while it is capturing.

When I click on the clip in the in the project window to see a preview it shows up, and the audio is great, but the picture looks like when you see a video of a TV screen. The audio and video don't match up and sometimes two video images or running over each other.

Of course this makes it impossible to edit.

If I open the mpeg with windows media player it looks great. So it's something in the software that won't allow the preview to play correctly, in my opinion.

I have used this same software on my dad's ASUS computer and it worked fine.

So I'm thinking I have some setting wrong somewhere...

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