playback barely works in multicam view

[djmattyz]

whenever i do multicam edits the playback barely works at all

im working with 25fps 1080p footage,  and anywhere from 5 - 9 cameras.  

H.264 footage, with no color grades or effects at this point in the edit.

it barely plays back at all, i have to stop it every half a second and wait in order to play it again.

its workable, but very unpleasant to use, and hampers the editing abilitiy aswell.

any ideas how i can improve this? i have the program monitor set to 1/4 which helps a little, but not a whole lot.

system (proteus IV laptop)

Windows 10 64bit

i7 -7820HK CPU @2.90ghz

Nvidia GTX1060

6 gb graphics ram

32 Ram

[Byron Cortez]

You would start showing us the tech specs of your system and video container and codec. Depending of this maybe you have to work with Proxies.

[djmattyz]

i have showed my specs above.

[Byron Cortez]

Yes, you did an update while I was responding.

[Ann Bens]

Might want to consider Proxies or convert footage to a more manageable format.

[djmattyz]

such as what format?

[Ann Bens]

Prores or Cineform

[Byron Cortez]

It is quite rare what is happening because you have good features in your system. Are you working with an external hard drive?

[djmattyz]

no, actually its on an internal drive

[Ann Bens]

Internal drive as in ssd or spinning?

How many drives?

[djmattyz]

they call it a hybrid drive, whatever that means. i have an SSD aswell but only 250GB, i could put it there to check if that makes a difference, but its not always practical to do that

[Byron Cortez]

Do it! And you will notice the difference. Remember that you are reading up to 9 videos at the same time and you need a lot of datarate.

[Ann Bens]

hybride drive: somewhere between a hdd and a ssd. Dont know it that is sufficient for 9 camera mulitcam H.264.

[Ann Bens]

I dont think its a great idea to put media on the same drive as your OS (assuming its the ssd).

[Gilberto Baldera]

I would go with a smart render workflow, thats what i used in TV shows I match my preview codec to  the one from my proxys and runs smoothly.