What is it doing ??????????????????

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What is it doing ??????????????????
by Jonny Webb on Jun 20, 2012 at 11:52:17 am

AGAIN.
Not Responding. AGAIN.

I'm pulling my hair out, and shouting WTF Adobe ?!?!?!?!?!

A simple project - a few sequences, with a few clips per sequence. Nothing fancy. Everything on default settings.

version cs6, on a BRAND NEW computer with Win 7 and NOTHING else installed.

The computer is fine. Yet Premiere uses 25% of resources, and System Idle the other 75%.

AND AGAIN premiere is Not Responding.

I'm temped to throw the disks out the window at the bootlegger on the corner (but he'll probably think i'm returning his dvds).

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Re: What is it doing ??????????????????
by Chris Tompkins on Jun 20, 2012 at 12:22:49 pm

I would suggest you post some more info in order to greater your chances of solving your issues:

What media are you working with?
What hard drives are you using for media?
Computer CPU and ram?

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

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Re: What is it doing ??????????????????
by Michael Kalin on Jun 21, 2012 at 4:05:55 am

And ... video card, CUDA cores enabled?

That will speed up many functions by a factor of 10.

How much RAM? 4 GB is not enough. How much is available to Premier?

Run great on two computers for me, including a $350 i3 laptop with an integrated graphics adapter and 8 GB of RAM.

Michael

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Re: What is it doing ??????????????????
by Jonny Webb on Jun 21, 2012 at 8:33:36 am

THanks for the replys,
i obviously needed to vent, and rant, and shout - always helps :)

My PC is an i5 3570K, with 12 GB Ram, couple of sata3 hard drives, and an Asus GeForce GTX 550 Ti.
I know the video card is rather low end, but as i keep hearing people running PPro and even AE on laptops without issue, i'd have thought my setup should be fine...

i have added my card to the supported card txt file, so i do get the Mercury option enabled. But is there more to it? i read in one site that i should put render quality to maximum. But isnt a lower setting faster?

In my simple project there is one sequence that was replaced with an AE comp that used Warp Stabilizer. And that seems to cause no end of problems. i think i'll do away with that and see what happens.

Thanks again for the replies.

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Re: What is it doing ??????????????????
by Michael Kalin on Jun 23, 2012 at 4:46:16 am

The GTX 550 Ti is a pretty decent card. When you are talking about comparing that to the 560 or 570, you are only talking about marginal improvements.

12GB should be sufficient for most projects.

I understand that the i5 does NOT support hyperthreading. That might be a constraint if the process you are running is CPU bound and not GPU bound.

I think you may want to check"maximum quality" to force the GPU use? I can't quite recall. seacrh for the correct term on here. Also lots of good info on GPU comp[arisons:

http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

Information here on memory usage. You can see how they monitor memory usage toward the bottom. You might also run these benchmarks and compare your machine to see if anything seems out of whack:

http://ppbm5.com/Background.html

http://ppbm5.com/DB-PPBM5-2.php

Good luck! I understand the frustration. Just use the energy to try to move you forward! Good luck!

Michael

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Re: What is it doing ??????????????????
by Michael Kalin on Jun 23, 2012 at 5:14:02 pm

You said in your first post that 25% of resources were used by Adobe.

Is that the maximum, or just what it happened to be using? That is 3GB, which is about the base usage for PP.

Within Premiere Pro setup, for my installation of CS6 Production Premium, the maximum used by Adobe defaults to 60% I think. If you are running nothing else you could ramp that up to about 66%, to leave 4GB for Win 7.

Are you using the 64 bit version of Premiere Pro? If not, and the base is using 3GB, the maximum RAM that 32 bit can address is 4GB, so you only have 1GB of RAM available.

Check to be sure you are running the 64 bit software!

And you also confirmed that within Premiere Pro it says "Mercury Hardware Acceleration"?

You can test to compare. On the CS5 benchmarks from ppbm5.com, the software enabled vs. hardware enabled will take about 10x as long on some benchmark tests. You can test, clear cache, change from software to hardware, then re-test to compare.

Now you have to let us know if you figure this out, even if it is user error. You can always come back and post under a new user name. ;>) (joke)

Cheers! Good luck.

Michael

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