Some users are having issues, yep. No questions about that.
Including yourself. Which ... I find rather a bother. Like most anyone here, I just want anyone using this or any other tools to be able to just get the darn work out the door. So ... I wish "we" had a magic wand to wave for each other.
Over the last few years, I've seen all sorts of things that users did that got them going better. A number re-formatted their machines, installing the same apps as before but ... installed Pr first. After that their lag/chunky-play issues stopped. How many really want to try doing that?
Also, the good folks at Puget Systems and Safeharbor Computing both say that most CPUs ... even high-end ones ... don't test out nearly as well for video post using any software as certain other CPUs do. Which is why they recommend only one or two at each price-area. Past that, most mobos do not lay out their lanes & resources for best use with the many things between cards & such not we video-post folks tend to load into our computers. They've shown that simply shifting your cards around on some mobos gets past bottlenecks of the computer layout ... which are of course not things that any one app has any control over.
These are just a few things of the many more that can seriously help or hinder performance of computers used for video post. And it's why we users need to learn as much as possible before blowing money on gear ... not all gear is even close to equal, and just more expensive has little to do with better performance.
Unfortunately, there isn't a great repository of exactly what gear works best, is there? I certainly wish there was. I'm looking at needing a significant upgrade from my 6-core/32GB-RAM/1060-6Gb vRAM rig due to the media I'm starting to work with. So you better believe I'm studying afore buying. And ... it will be built especially for the use.
On my current rig, I get better playback in Pr over Resolve. Other rigs are reversed. Why? No clue.
Neil
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