CS5: replacing footage lagging - R3D to PRORES

Hello

I am working in Premiere Pro CS5 on a Macbook Pro. I've edited a sequence & footage directly with R3D footage, but now I am trying to replace all the footage with PRORES footage that i've exported from the original R3D footage using REDCINE-X (Build 454)

The problem is that once I replace the footage (from the Project Window in Premiere Pro), the playback becomes extremely laggy, if there is any playback at all. I scrub the timeline with the replaced footage, and it takes 20-30 seconds before the preview window updates.

Has anyone else encountered this kind of problem? I made the mistake of editing with the R3D footage, I should have exported directly to PRORES to begin with, I've never had problems editing with PRORES footage before.

If you'd like more information like my project specs, let me know. Any help and insight is welcomed.

Thanks in advance!
Patrick

Hello

I've attached screen images with some settings. I'm editing with my footage connected via Firewire-800 on a Lacie 500gb drive, which never caused me problems (in fact it caused me joy, myself coming from a Windows background :)

I suppose the export settings in REDCINEX could be too high, but I've never had problems with exported footage. Of course I've never tried to do "proxy footage" replacement like in this case. And the reason why I am undergoing this footage replacement task is because I only realised after I finished editing that the source R3D footage would not be easy to color correct - or key out the green in this case - because they were not using the right color profile.

I tried flushing video cache, but it doesn't seem to do the trick, even though the cache is below 100mb anyway. I also have no problems with playback when the exported Quicktime Prores 422 footage is running with Quicktime Player.

Thanks again

Quicktime Movie Info (exported footage)



Red Movie Settings (source footage)



Red CINEX Export Settings (from source footage)

Try creating a new sequence with settings to match your ProRes clips. Then copy the entire contents of your R3D sequence into it, and start replacing your clips. Should work since your new sequence is using Quicktime as the playback mode, not R3D. Hope this helps.