4K editing (GoPro footage) stutters that transfer into rendered file. What can be the problem?

[Guest]

Hello everyone,

Like the title says: When editing 4K footage from a GoPro (4K 60 FPS) in Premiere Pro, the footage stutters. Even when viewed in 1/8 mode.. If you try to render a small portion of the footage, the stutters transfer into the rendered file.

This only happens with the GoPro Hero 7 black footage (4K 60 FPS) and not when editing drone footage from a DJI drone that is 4K 25 FPS or any full HD footage. (Yes, it does stutter sometimes but lowering to 1/4 usually solves that and it is never transferd into the rendered file.)

Some specs:

i5 7400 @3GHZ.

8 GB RAM

HDD 1tb  7200 RPM, 64 mb cache

NVIDIA GTX 1050 4 GB

Adobe CC 2019 V13.0 - Mercury Playback GPU Acceleration enabled

The files that we are trying to edit are .MP4 files if I'm not mistaken.

I think it's the RAM that's not keeping up.. What do you guys think the problem may be?

With kind regards,

Fabian

[Ann Bens]

Your machine is underpowered. Try using Proxies

Adobe Premiere Pro CC System Requirements

[Guest]

Thank you. We'll try Proxies!

Yes, we do meet the minimum but not the recommended requirements. I think I should start to upgrade to 32 GB RAM and then maybe the CPU. Is that the best way to start improving it?

[excited_Genie16B8]

Couple things.

1. Don't mix ATSC (24,30, 60) and PAL (25, 50) frame rates.  Stick to one group only.

2. Always use Cineform proxies with H.264/5 footage, described below.

Work offline using proxy media |

[Guest]

Okay thanks! Will try and use those too.