PE7 Sluggish Compared to PE3

I'm a longtime PE3.0.2 user who downloaded PE7 to see what it's like - I've purchased a AVCHD camera and am curious how it will perform. Before I even tried working with an AVCHD file, I created a simple HDV1080i project and dropped in some HDV1080i captures. Right away, I noticed that PE7 doesn't playback the timeline nearly as smooth as PE3. Even viewing an HD video clip directly from the 'organize' or 'edit' windows is noticably choppy. I created the very same project in PE3 - all playbacks of the same files are great, in the timeline or the media window.
Does the PE7 trail have some performance limitations vs. the full version? Is this latest version that much more processor intensive?
Hardware summary: Win XP, Pentium Core 2 Dual 2.16 GHz, 2GB Ram, dual 250 GB HDD, GeForce 7300 GT 256MB, updated OS & video card drivers. Haven't updated the motherboard BIOS in a while.
Any suggestions to make PE7 more usable? The AVCHD clips are even more choppy but I expected some of that.

Further comparison - when I playback the same 35min HDV captured video clip, PE3 uses 35-45% of the processor resources, PE7 uses 60-75%.
Have others experienced the same? I want to upgrade to get the addtional features PE7 offers but I don't want the big performance hit. HD video of any kind isn't working for me with PE7 and my hardware.

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I agree. Fortunately, Adobe *usually* offers a great deal of backward compatibility in most of its products. As I only have PE4, I cannot comment on PE's embracing of backward compatibility. PPro was an exception, as I had to work on that much older stuff. Had to learn, while doing, that it was possible - and it was.
With PS, I still have one machine with PS4 on it, because of one client's client and one project that I do about once per year. PS changed the way it handled Spot Colors and also how it Exported to TIFF just enough to force me to retain this old version - it just did what my client needs for this one project.
I always finish what I am working on with the version of whatever program I'm using. That's why Audition 3 is still in the box, until I finish a bunch of stuff in Audition 2.
I also make it a habit of keeping the previous version on a machine, especially if there's been a big change in the interface. If a client calls and needs it "yesterday," I don't want to be hunting around to see where Adobe moved the such-and-such. When I get MYSELF up to speed with the new version, I'll usually delete the previous, with the above example a glaring exception.
Will be interesting to see how PE7 does/does not handle older Projects. I would have assumed that the biggest incompatibility would have been between PE3 and PE4, because of the major interface changes. I would also assume (there's that word again!) that PE4 to PE7 would not be that big a deal, though am standing by to be proved wrong.
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Aperture sluggish compared to Iphoto

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PE7 unable to recognize Canon HV20 as High Definition

Hello Everyone:
Unfortunately like some of you that probably want to try your hand at high definition editing, I just bought PE7 a couple of days before the announcement for PE8. For some reason I find that PE7 (and my previous PE3) cannot recognize my Canon HV20 as the high definition camera that it is.
I can easily import regular dv-avi from this Canon but when trying to import the files as HDV, it does not recognize the camera.
The camera is connected via firewire and is recognized as 'DV' Camcorder but not as an 'HDV' camcorder. The footage has been recorded in High defintion 1080.
I hope that one of you with this type of camera can help.
On another note, is it possible to record into PE7 with HDMI?
Thanks,
Lucio
email: [email protected]
my computer: HP m9077c, Intel core 2 Quad core Q6600, 32 bit, 3G Ram, service pack 1 with all the current microsoft updates, 400G internal HD and 1T external HD

Lucio,
Perhaps a different capture card is needed or Vista Ultimate (instead of the Home Premium that I have).
A FireWire connection should be all that you will need. No "capture card" would be involved.
There don't seem to be many setting available for transferring beside an 'AV-DV' on-off (which I keep on).
Because my Canon is an SD-only unit, I can't really check its manual to help you. This line puzzles me a bit. What happens if you set this to OFF? Considering the number of menu options and switches that I have on my SD camera, I'd have expected your HD/SD unit to have more possible settings, but maybe I'm wrong and Canon has simplified things a lot.
Good luck,
Hunt

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Live Screen Redraw was not introduced until CS5, so you had no setting for it in CS4. What you are describing is faily7 typical for older hardware with Live Screen Redraw set to immediate. Change it to Dealyed and it will have the same behavior you are used to from CS4 -- Click and hold before dragging to get a live draw on object move.

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Good Day.
I'm running PP CS6 on a mostly home-built PC under Win 7 Pro, v.6.1.7601, Serv Pack 1, build 7601.
System is a64 bit Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.GHz, 3201Mhz, 6 Cores, 12 Logic
24GB RAM
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Ok... just for you I rebooted to Win7 to test.
I have a 42 minute Timeline with a few
cuts back and forth between two AVCHD sources.
One is the sample from ExactImage that has been confirmed
as being affected by the (now fixed) AVCHD bug in CS6.
The other is a sample provided by Fuzzy Barsik.
Both clips can be found for download in this thread:
CS6 / AVCHD / Spanned Clip Bug / What Cameras
And Media Types Are Affected?
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5596038#5596038
When I jump back and forth in the Timeline from cut to cut
and immediately hit play, I don't see the lags you describe.
I am running CS6.0.5.
note:
I don't have MPE enabled:

CS4 running extremely slow compared to CS3

I installed Photoshop Extended CS4 64bit. I opened a 24mb PSD file, there is some text with some outer glow when I move it I get horrible redraw. CS4 just feels sluggish compared to CS3. My system is not that bad, e6600, 4GB, 8800GTS 640, Vista Home Premium x64.
Anybody have any ideas? I have updated to the latest drivers for my GPU. I am considering just a reformat and install.

The first thing I did was update video drivers.
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I am running Bridge CS3. I have a sub-directory with 134 JPG images in it and no sub-directories off of it. In addition to most operations being quite sluggish, when I select 'Click to view items in current folder & its sub folders', there is an EXTREME delay on the order of 5 minutes before it displays the 134 images. Am I doing something wrong? I have a very large disk drive, so I have allowed Bridge to generate the largest amount of cache.
Shouldn't things be running faster than this?
I might add that this delay remains once I return to normal view and then go to the 'All Subfolders' view again. It's no faster the second time around.
Thanks, Gary

I think that YOU have the wrong concept of cache. Having been a
programmer for over 30 years, I can tell you that it is indeed intended
to improve performance. Otherwise, why have it? If you can compute
something just as fast on-the-fly, then why store it in a cache file
that has to be read later?
Much of Windows is built around caching disk accesses to improve
performance.
No, my hard disk is not fragmented...It is almost 100% contiguous.
I did have the cache slider set all the way to the right, but that has
been corrected.
I do know that Adobe is a memory hog...Even worse than Micro$oft! But
it will be a while before I can afford a 64-bit Windows Computer.
In the meantime, compacting the cache speeded things up over 100-fold.
Bridge is still sluggish compared to other programs that I use, but I am
just going to have to live with it with my present resources.
Gary

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I hate IE8, and I'm not sold on Chrome. Don't drive me away, Firefox.
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Best specs to run Photoshop CS6 on a MacBook Pro.

Hi,
I am considering a MBP for all my photoshop work. Currently using Photoshop CS6
From 2007-2010 I had my old MBP (late 2006 model). Then in 2011 I was using the 2011 iMac, 2.5ghz, 4gb ram. I sold the iMac as I felt more comfortble with the laptop in terms of working anywhere and anytime. Also for some reason I just strangly enough found the iMac a bit sluggish compared to the smooth performance I had with my old MBP. I mean the iMac is fast, way faster than my old MBP, but sometimes the mouse is just stuck there and i feel annoyed that I cant get moving on as i am waiting for 'something' thats really not there... However I do think that it may have been due to the wireless bluetooth mouse that I was using... but not sure.
I run psd files that have a large number of layers and can reach a size of 3-4gb per file while processing and when saved and closed upto 2gb. I rarely use filters, but when i do, its mainly the blur filters and then sometimes the others.
15"
I am considering the 15" MBP base model but bump up the RAM to 8gb... I wish it were more than 8 though...
and getting a SSD drive of 128gb... too expensive other wise and this is enough for my work files as I have 2 additional backups on external HDs.
and VRam of 512gb
with an anti glare display... as the glossy is just plain killing me (experienced on my old iMac).
13"
I like the size & portability of the 13", but the lack of a dedicated VRAM is putting me off. I could always get an external display later if the need be, however what about VRAM... its shared right? How will that affect CS6 performance?
So any suggestions regarding my choice of specs. I would like to really bump up the RAM but the only option i have is 8gb. Also I hope to use this system for another 3-4 years alteast if it does not have any other issues.

Is the 128g drive just a scratch drive? I may be marginal if you use big files and lots of layers. Best to have seperate internal physical drives for scratch and program files.
VRAM of 512g is considered min. now. Can you get 1 gig?
Personally 15" is the smallest I would go. Am old and a 24" is better viewing for me.

Photoshop CS4 Experience, Problems & Questions

Hi all,
i just installed my Production Suite Premium on the following System (fresh install, clean System, no other versions of Photoshop):
Intel E8500 Dualcore
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Here are the things that bug me:
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- Photoshop crashed on several occasions mostly concerning heavy transforming of multiple layers. It simply didn't respond anymore in the midst of the transormation-process.
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Strange thing is, that even with open GL deactivated, the above written problems occur. I would have thought, that with OpenGL dectivated, Photoshop would somehow become kind of CS3 again, but it seems, there had been to much changes to simply disconnect photoshop from it's new OpenGL interface.
Apart from these two Problems, Photoshop CS4 is doing ok. It feels kind of sluggish compared to older versions, but that might also change with some new drivers.
Sad thing is, that the rotate canvas feature and the extended moverange for images, the main reasons why i upgraded to CS4, are only working with
OpenGL activated. I really hope there will be a fix in the near future.
There are other questions concerning PS CS4's usability:
- The Scale-Brush Feature uses alt + right mouse buttons, what seems kind of strange when using a stylus (Even more when using a stylus without buttons like the wacom layout-marker).
I would prefer another combination of keyboard shortcuts plus stylus movement ctrl + alt for example. so far i have not found a way to remap the keys. Am i missing something? Or is this impossible?
- Is there a way to get window behavior back the way it was in CS3? The new way of handling windows is ok, but i liked the old one better. If i disable "floating windows docking" there's no way to maximize a window INSIDE the photoshop workspace. The maximize button on top of every window is right now completely useless because it maximizes the window AND gets rid of all the menus and palettes. I don't see why i want to do that.
That's it. I hope this is useful either for the guys at adobe or for other users. Every new Photoshop-Version has had its problems, i hope that these will just be dealt with like the ones before.
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Photoshop CS4 does cause crashes. I can vouch for that too. When it happens, the first instinct is almost always to assume that something is wrong with the computer and start from there. Comments to this effect are prominent in many threads. It is also Adobe's prevalent approach. So people experiencing these problems will tend not to post on these forums. Statements like 'because there are only a few posts, a significant number of people are not experiencing [these] problems' are therefore unfounded. There simply has not been time yet for people to resolve potential hardware/system problems.
In my case, I started experiencing unexplained crashed with CS3 in July (see below) but it was only when Adobe admitted that they could be partly to blame that I posted my experiences (elsewhere) on this forum.
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Yet PS/CS4 keeps crashing for no reason that can be established. Adobe have given me lots of homework to do to try to find out what affects it or remedies there are. It is all very tedious, but so far, nothing...
I am coming to the conclusion that there must be something intrinsically wrong with PS/CS4 that makes it incompatible with some systems and software installations, but not necessarily because of any fault with the latter. I have to say that, after initially trying to push me away, Adobe are being very helpful and clearly want (need?) to get to the bottom of this. The trouble is that when the system locks up, it is completely and utterly paralysed, so any diagnostic and error reporting systems are inoperative. This suggests something beneath or beyond Windows, and, if it is not hardware, this points the finger of blame squarely at the activation software, which uses rootkit technology. (Would this be the same on a Mac, I wonder?)
For the record, my system is a Dell Precision 370 desktop with Dell/Phoenix BIOS A08, 3.2GHz Pentium 4 CPU, Intel 925X chipset, 2MB ECC SDRAM, Nvidia Quadro FX3450 graphics, 2x Seagate 146MB Cheetah 5.5k disks (SCSI) in non-RAID configuration. From the limited experience I have had, it seems perfectly capable of running the software (apart from when it crashes, of course.)

Don't understand how to enable OpenGL?

I just installed Photoshop CS4 around a week ago and as many have already said it feels pretty sluggish compared to the CS2 that I upgraded from.
I get the message "photoshop has encountered a problem with the display driver, and has temporarily disabled GPU enhancements..." which essentially disables OpenGL and I am sure probably has some adverse effects.
I have a modern up to date computer so I don't see what the issue is. Whenever I try to enable it when I restart it tells me to either search for updated drivers or gives me the error. I hate thinking I paid all this money for something I am not getting optimal use out of.
Thanks for any help
Specs:
Windows XP SP3
Directx 9.0c
4GB Ram
Quad 9450 CPU
Nvidia 8800GT 512MB video card (which is on their supported list)
Most up to date video drivers you can get 178.24

I have a very basic 1600x1200 resolution which is pretty standard for a non wide screen setup.
I just deleted my CS4 settings file at startup as described by adobe's help files as they said it might be holding onto old info. I don't get the initial error now and I am getting some changes (no more flickering when moving the files around, and there are smooth transitions now between zooming and moving) so I am assuming this is the OpenGL feature set?
I still do get a popup on load however that says "to download your latest video drivers please visit..."
I wish adobe provided a utility that tests your functionality (much like direct x and some video games do) and would issue a pass or fail and if so give an explanation.

Slow iMac (Yosemite), good etrecheck report/specs

Hi all,
Hoping one could help me out with the following question. Why feels the iMac late 2012 slower than my 6-7year old unibody MBP?
I know there are a lot of topics passing by that are quiet similar and I've tried most of the solutions but that didn't change anything for me.
Apple hardware test, SMC reset, PRAM reset, repair permissions,... and almost everything else I could find on this forum didn't work. I can't really remember this iMac ever working smoothly as it should be but because it has never been used very often, I kept ignoring it.
Once an app like Safari, Mail or iTunes is launched, which can take 10 seconds, or longer when awake from sleep, it's usable. But when switching between apps, using spotlight, clicking on top right menu items like dropbox or adobe CC-menu or doing a bit "heavier" work in Photoshop or Indesign the beach ball appears sometimes or it all goes with a slight 2-3 seconds delay that makes it feel slow. They seem to appear randomly but especially after rebooting or waking from sleep, it all goes too sluggish compared to the old MBP or iMacs we use at work with lesser specs and the same HDD.
I did a clean install before switching to Yosemite because Mavericks gave somehow the same problems. It did make the iMac a tad faster but not as fast as it should be. I know "fast" is a subjective matter but compared to other Apple computers, mine is too slow.
If anyone could help me solve this ongoing problem, he or she'd make my day.
Here's the etrecheck report, now the page-outs are at 0 but that might be because I didn't do any heavy tasks since rebooting.
Recently I've added some RAM after having a high number of page-outs (5-6GB) but overall speed stayed the same since the update:
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    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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    OS X 10.10.2 (14C1514) - Time since boot: 11 days 17:3:59
Disk Information: ℹ️
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Document Resizing question - InDesign CC

In previous versions of InDesign that I've used, if I had something centered on a 12" x 18" page (so centered at 6" x 9"), I could decide to change the document setup size to a different sized paper, for example 13" x 19". When I would do that, it would basically add 1/2" to all 4 sides evenly and my art would remain centered with a new point of 6.5" x 9.5". When I do this in InDesign CC, my artwork stays at the 6" x 9" and is no longer centered. Is there a preference setting or something I can do to fix this and make it add or subtract my new page size evenly to keep my art centerd??
I'm using a Mac, OS X 10.6.8.
Thanks in advance!

A discussion like this had been posted before, and as I do research, I also found out that some Adobe InDesign users is already aware of this. A related topic for this one is here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5445588#5445588
And other website:
http://idsecrets.wpengine.com/resize-page-from-upper-left-corner.php
So, lets just hope that adobe include a fix for this since adobe is already working out an enhancement since InDesign CC is also sluggish compare to adobe InDesign CS6.

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