Adobe Premiere video hesitates/stutters

[GrfxArt]

When I'm editing video Premiere will stutter/hesitate during playback of edited video sequence.

Is this related to having only 512MB RAM, will it run "smoother" if I had 1GB RAM? See my system specs below (top computer)

tia

Edit: I forgot to mention that I had Photoshop running as well....it's really starting to sound like I need 1GB....???

[SonicVanguard]

Without knowing what verison of Premiere you are running, I can tell you 512Meg is on the low side of adequite for any full frame video work. And having Photoshop running as well doesn't help.

Premiere Pro has taken care of some playback issues, but not all of them. One other thing, if you are working with AVI-DV footage, edit in full render mode - that will help playback.

Dave.

[GrfxArt]

I'm using Premiere Pro 1.5 and video captured from my DV camcorder.

The stuttering isn't that bad, it only happens right at the beginning of the project sequence during playback. It's almost like the video is trying to load and then plays fine throughout.

Just wondering if it could be another computer hardware other than having only 512MB that's causing this...

[RJ]

Premiere Pro needs at least 1 GB to run smoothly. When I tried Premiere Pro with 512 MB it was unstable and crashed. Once I upgraded to 1 GB it ran smoothly.

So in your case I'd upgrade to a gig.

RJ

[GrfxArt]

Originally posted by RJ So in your case I'd upgrade to a gig. RJ [/B]

thanks, I've placed an order for 512MB more of RAM

[Fibre Optix]

Adobe does recommend 1 GIG RAM so good move ordering the extra ram..

You should have 2 (edit and edited) monitors showing in the Premiere interface.When you place the movie in the 1 monitor and scrub back and forth is it choppy? Or is it only in the second monitor? Or do both stutter?

When you import a large video clip in to premiere it renders the entire thing. You can see this procces at the bottom right of the screen when you place a video into the edit monitor (monitor 1). I usually import video from my miniDV, place it into the edit monitor and go for a smoke. It plays smooth as butter after that.

[GrfxArt]

Originally posted by Fibre Optix When you place the movie in the 1 monitor and scrub back and forth is it choppy? Or is it only in the second monitor? Or do both stutter?

It only happens at the very beginning of playback of the edited video, played on the right side of the monitor window.

The video project consist of four, 1-3 min. ea., video clips, an mp3 music for "background" sound, plus about six jpeg still images. Then there are the visual transition effects between the video and jpeg clips. I also had PS CS running as well......

.....I don't know if it matters but I have my WinXP page file (2GB) on a separate partition on the same harddrive....

upgrading to 1 gig sounds like a good idea anyway even if this doesn't solve the prob...



edit: oh! and as far as scrubbing back and forth while editing, no probs there, it runs smooth...it's only when I want to playback the whole project from the start..

[Fibre Optix]

The partition should not matter. A friend of mine has the same set up and he makes home movie DVD all the time.

Funny thing is he has basicly the same set up as you do with not problems... hmmm Mabey there is a scratch disk like setting. I'm going to look into that.

Good luck.

[GrfxArt]

I installed 512MB more of RAM, total of 1GB. It's made a big difference, not only running Premiere but the whole system is running "smooth". I had AP, PS, AI and a MP3 player all running at the same time, not a hiccup.