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Playback of preview is jerky or slow

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September 24, 2012
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Anonymous

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

Inspiring

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

It appears that your Dell has a single HDD, and it is partitioned into 3 logical drives. While probably not the cause of the jerkiness, partitions WILL slow down video editing. This article goes into more detail: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2858648#2858648

With that Quad-Core, you might be handicapped a bit, but that will depend on the footage that you are editing.

Though it might appear elsewhere, can you tell us all about the footage that you are using?

Good luck,

Hunt

Thanks for the link instruction, dah; I see it know

As for the partition issue, that too makes sense; after reading the link. Actrually I had to reinstall my OS recently and wanted to remove the partitions, because they are something Dell created and I did't think I needed.

After reading the link I realize the down side. A few months ago I dl'd Minitool Partition Wizard but since it didn't seem to hearting anything I didn't pursue the issue and then I got sidetracked and forgot about it. I will get back on it now!

I do note the scrubbing works better when not in the "clip monitor"

As for the footage data, here is a printscreen of the clip I just tried scrubbing.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1wf4TSfSfY8eYObozz4HfV9JqQt2f7

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Anonymous

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

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