CS6 Much Slower than CS5.5

Report · May 15, 2012

I installed Premiere Pro CS6 for Mac and moved an existing project from CS5.5. The clips are all After Effects compositions, some with elaborate effects. I imported them into AE6 from AE5.5 prior to bringing them into CS6 so they would interact between AE6 with PP6 via Dynamic Link.

CS6 is painfully slow on my machine. Even just dragging a clip from the Project window to the timeline results in a spinning beachball that stays on screen for over a minute before allowing me to position the clip. Playing the timeline also takes forever. Rendering the work area is slow too -- and that's when it works. Some clips render for a while and then crash out with an "unknown" compiling error.

I'm running a Mac Pro from 2011, 6 Core, 32 GB RAM, stock ATI Radeon card, Raid-0 across 3 2TB 7200 RPM drives and a solid state 200MB drive for software and some scratch files. Latest versions of both OSX and Premiere Pro.

The reason I upgraded to CS6 was to gain speed. So far CS5.5, set up in pretty much in identical fashion, was way faster and less problematic.

Can anyone offer advice? I've scoured this forum and the web and have come up empty.

Thanks!

Gene

Report · May 18, 2013

Hi,

I think I have similair problem. First of all my current specs is:

Asus Sabertooth z77 mainboard with intel i7 2700K processor

32 gb (8*4) ram

120 gb ssd sata3 drive for OS and CS6

500 gb sata3 7200rpm hd for cache files

1 tb sata3 7200rpm hd for source video and audio

and finally Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti with 2gb of memory

Blackmagic shuttle io card etc

This system were combined specially for my endless highend compositing needs and it works like a charm with all applications other than Premiere Pro.

Yesterday I barley finished editing a short (approx 2 minutes) 1080p project that shot with Canon 5D MKII. Without using mercury playback engine application

works fine but once I activate it all playback became really slow and laggy and sometime it freeze if I move playhead quickly.

I only use one video and one audio track in timeline so we can say this editing scenario is a fundamental for production grade NLE application.

My graphic processor has a lot of cuda power but Adobe doesn't support it natively so I have to edit the famous text file.

On CS5 and CS5.5 I done lots of 1080p project with my old gtx 480 card and I never encountered any similair problem.

I hope my favorite and trusted software company Adobe will find the problem and will fix it soon...

Thanks

M.Maya