PPro CS5 GUI on mac really jerky

Moving clips around on the timeline of CS5 on the mac is like playing Russian roullette; you never know where the clip is actually going to fall. It's like the interface has a refresh rate of 5fps or something. It seems to take forever for clips to snap against each other, and this lag causes the user to think something is wrong and then move the clips around more than necessary.
Please please tell me that this will be addressed in a point release. I don't want to have to pay to upgrade for a solution to a problem that should never have made it to a full release.

Hi Jeremy,
here, when snapping is turned on, the region goes all kind of places (Tries to snap) which is expected (By me at least)
however, when turning off snapping and just attempting to drag the region from i.e. left to right it feels like it wants to stick to the position where it was previous located. I work fast and scoot regions about all the time. 50% of time I drop the region where I 'thought' it would be in the correct location (Based on the graphical region-representation) but after letting go, the region will position itself differently.
At the moment I am resorting to alt+arrow-moving the region to get rid of this nuisance!!!
Jeremy, if you want to get the feel that would LOVE to be in PPRO then do this
1) Open AE
2) Create a new Comp
3) Create a new null and set in & outpoint so that it is shorter than the comp... (So that you can drag it about)
4) Drag it from left to right etc etc etc... and take note of that feeling.
Now, go into PPRO and start dragging. You will immediately feel that something is wrong (or better yet, NOT conforming to standard)
AE is conforming to a standard that I have come to know the past 10 working with either NLEs and DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) Pretty much, ANY app that has a timeline and regions to move about in it...
PS - Dont wanna coma across as if PPRO aint GREAT. It IS.... Perhaps, THE MOST intuitive NLE I have ever worked with. However, this little drag-thing is really a nuisance...
To OP...
THere a MANY ways of positioning a region in PPRO...
Grab a cup of cappuccino and take a close look at all the shortcuts available.
There is but ONE missing and I would call it 'Move Clip to PlayHead'
I would JUMP HOOPS to get that short cut. Basically, all it would do is to place a video clip's (already in the timeline) start or end point right at the playhead. That feature would save my life --- HEY... If I have MISSED it and it is already possible, PLEASE -- Make my day and tell me how
You can find one 'Move Playhead to Cursor' which is saving me hours per day.
You will have to assign your own key to it (Not pre-assigned) but what it will do is that where ever your mouse cursor is hovering it will place the playhead. and THAT get really fun if you keep the shortcut depressed. That enables Turbo-shuttling with the mouse as Jog. (Little off topic, sorry)
Anyway, the point is that in the keycommands there are stuff hidden that can change your workflow. I.e. Opt+LeftArrow will move the selected clip left in time. If you, like me, a lot times wanna drag the clip about 5 frames you are really getting frustrated by PPRO and mouse-dragging. Instead, select the clip and hit opt+Left Arrow 5 times OR opt+sht+LeftArrow to move the clip 5 frames left !

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Grr. Dammit.
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Okay, this turned out weird. Fixed now, but WEIRD. After the deafening silence on this forum, I went and did some reading on other threads and with other people having similar (but it seems not the same) issue. It seems that there could have been three different causes: here's what I did to fix things, I'd be fascinated if anyone with closer links to Adobe comes up with the technical explanation of why this turned out the way that it did.
Possible issues:
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(3) something else weird involving registration... some people have had issues with time zones, of all things. see below.
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(2) Read the forums some more. I'm in New Zealand, it's currently daylight savings time (GMT +13) here. In http://forums.adobe.com/message/4007876, someone in NZ had a different but similar problem with registering/deregistering Premiere Pro software during NZ daylight savings time, and found that changing to ANY other time zone fixed their issue.
(3) Thought "what the hell", changed the time zone to Samoa (couldn't bring myself to do Australia...) and rebooted as admin.
(4) Successfully deactivated software, no error messages. Interesting.
(5) Uninstalled premiere pro. Rebooted as admin.
(6) Ran adobe cleaner tool. Found some scraps, killed them off. Rebooted as admin to be on the safe side (still on Samoa time)
(7) Installed Premiere, no issues at all. Registered, no issues at all. All preset settings present and correct, no issues getting AVCHD files.
(8) Changed time zone to NZ day light savings time.
(9) Everything still works.
Hm. Adobe, SOMETHING is wrong with the way your software is handling timezones and registration of codecs/software on Premiere Pro CS5.5. Seriously, does anyone have a clue why this might be happening?
So, solved. Shall I give myself a tick for "correct answer" and "helpful answer", given I solved my own thing with no help from tech support?

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PROBLEM: Premiere CS5 - Project Monitor playback is jerky
This had NOT been an issue prior to reinstalling the operating system and all software. I have read numerous articles on the forums and have tried everything I can find...with no results.
STEPS TAKEN TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM:
I have scoured the articles here http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc=en_us&term=choppy%20video&cat=support&pr oduct=premierepro and others at Cretive Cow
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SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:
The Operating system and all software is installed on C:
All data files and most profile related folders are stored on D:
C:\ (one Intel Solid State Drive - SYSTEM DRIVE) Used Space: 57.5 GB Free Space: 388 GB
D:\ (four Western Digital 2TB drives in an on-board INTEL hardware RAID5 array & hotswapable backplane) used space: 1.28 TB Free space: 4.16TB
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 VERSION: 5.0.3 (005 (MC: 218798))
Operating System    Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Version    6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
System Manufacturer    Intel Corporation
System Model    S5520SC
System Type    x64-based PC
Video    NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 driver v.320.78
Display        Dell 27" LCD (DisplayPort)
Display        Dell 27" LCD (DisplayPort)
Processor    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5680 @ 3.33GHz, 3326 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
Processor    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5680 @ 3.33GHz, 3326 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM)    96.0 GB
Page File Space    0 bytes
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Monitor PLAYBACK RESOLUTION: Full
Monitor PAUSE RESOLUTION: Full
(regardless of this setting, the problem persists)
PREFERENCES:
MEMORY:
Installed RAM: 95.9 GB
RAM reserved for other applications: 10 GB
Optimize rendering for: Performance
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MEDIA:
Media Cache Files
X - Save Media Cached files next to originals when possible
LOCATION: D:\Users...\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common
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Media Cache Database
LOCATION: D:\Users...\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common
PROJECT SETTINGS:
Scratch Disks
Path: D:\Users...\My Documents\
General
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Thank you.

I'VE RESOLVED THE PROBLEM!
PREFACE:
OK, I am hoping that through this week-long Operating-System-and-Software-reinatalltion excerise of mine, I have revealed something that everyone -- whom have been cursing Adobe over -- can apply to their systems to resolve this jerky video problem within PremierePro CS5 (and quite possibly other versions, too).
If you've read my post above, you've seen all the steps I've taken to resolve the problem. I've read many posts, some of which have mentioned hardware upgrade / opitmization steps that one may take to enhance performance, and hopefully resolve the problem. I've read where people have taken these steps and have still experienced the problem...and then they curse Adobe. Fer-shame, fer-shame, fer-shame! (nod to Gomer Pyle).
In my case, I knew it wasn't an Adobe issue, as it had worked flawlessly before; and, it wouldn't require a hardware upgrade or reconfigureation, as my system is completely maxed out with two processors, a system drive and a hardware RAID5 array, a CUDA-suported nVIDIA 4800 FX card, and 96 GB of RAM. bla bla bla, puke...whatever. Bottom line is this:
It's not a software issue. It's not and Adobe issue; and Gawd no! It's NOT a PC vs. Mac issue! HA HA. The software had worked swimmingly well prior to the reinstallation / 'lobotomy' I perfomed on the system drive.
SOLUTION FOR ME:
Download and install the updated drivers for the motherboard. Mine is an Intel Workstation Board S5520SC. Intel has an INTEL DRIVER UPDATE UTILITY which automatically scaned my Intel system and identified drivers which needed updating. A very handy, time-saving tool!!! Here's the URL: http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect?iid=dc_iduu
The scan revealed two Intel drivers needing an update:
Intel Chipset
Wired Networking
and one non-intel driver:
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-fi
I downloaded and installed these three drivers, rebooted, and tested PremierePro, and was extatic to find this resolved the problem.
If you have a motherboard from another manufacturer, then you may want to navigate over to their wibsite to locate chipset and other updated drivers for your motherboard.
ROOT CAUSE:
While Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate was able to install certain default drivers during the Operating System installation (keeping in mind that this was done on an Intel Solid State Drive that I formatted using Quick Format) these default chipset drivers apparently weren't current and were ultimately the root cuase of the jerky video playback within PremierePro CS5.
Peace

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http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2010/08/help-documents-for-creative-suite-5-pdf -and-html.html
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/913334
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/845731?tstart=0
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I would really appreciate your opinion on that one or from anybody else that has particular experiences with this notebook and avchd!
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simpsonix
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I've got a bonus question: can the gt425m with 1024mb be used for the mercury engine? (with the hack)

>Whats the advantage of two harddisk instead of one?
One hard drive has one read/write head (or set of heads if multi-platter... all physically locked together) so that one (set of) read/write head(s) may only be in one spot on the hard drive at a time
That means that any Windows activity precludes any file activity
You really need at least 2 hard drives... I have 3...
1 - 320G WD Win7 and all programs
2 - 320G WD Win7 swap file and PPro projects
3 - 1T WD all video files... read and write

Stutter after Upgrade PPro CS5.5

Hi,
I've spent a day with this and I'm not able to figure it out... Playing ProRes files back in PPro CS5 works superbly, even with an insane amount of FX attached. Same preset, same clip in CS5.5 dosen't even play back correctly without any FX on it... the bare clip stutters, drops out audio, etc. What can that be?
Thanks so much for your help...
Rob
Processor 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 16 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4870 512 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)

Thanks so much for your reply, Todd. No, I'm running 5.5.2
Could it be that it is a "bad install"? Would re-installing solve anything? And - could tha AJA drivers/plugins have anything to do with it, as in, "confuse" the system? (I tested a non-AJA sequence, identical on CS5 and CS5.5, and the latter made difficulties - so it might not be the AJA thing directly, if at all...).

PPro CS5 Crash Course for Non-Linear Editors

Backstory: I was asked this morning to teach a crash course in Premiere CS5 for the students in the film program at my school in the Introduction to Editing class who have been using FCP. They have to edit several projects using RED footage, and rather than spend a huge amount of time transcoding it to a format which FCP can work with, the prof has just decided to have his students use PPro CS5 (which is also on their editing computers). Since the prof doesn't use PPro, he's asked me to teach the class for him.
I created a very brief crash course powerpoint to assist me in giving them the fundamentals of the program, and supply them with a resource to refer back to as they work on their projects after class is over tomorrow morning. I created this for students who already have done some editing in an NLE, and so don't need to be taught WHAT everything is and HOW to cut footage and put together a timeline. This is just to introduce editors to PPro CS5 who are not already familiar with the PPro workflow.
Anyway, I wondered if some of you gurus would want to take a look at it and give me your feedback on what I've covered well, what I might have missed, and any other thoughts y'all had.
You can view a PDF of the document at www.bryan.edu/pprocs5 The viewer will bring it up embedded in the page at about 40-50%, so you'd be best off to click the download link and open it in Acrobat where you can go full size with it.

Thanks for the input!
I actually taught hem REDCINE-X last week so that they could use it to export their files to an intermediate codec that FCP would understand, and preserve the new colorspace. Unfortunately these computers are so slow that the export process was gonna take nearly a week for all the files they need to work with, so the prof opted to swtich over to PPro midstream since it can handle the raw 4k and supports the new colorspace.
I didn't mention the saving thing... forgot about it; but the conforming issue did come up and we were able to talk about that in class!
The class went okay, I guess... I don't know what it is about students these days, but most of them (like all but one) weren't really paying very good attention and they were just sorta goofing off, talking amongst themselves, etc... made it really frustrating to teach this platform!
Oh well.

Slowmotion is really jerky!

when i slow a clip down alot it becomes really jerky, any way to solve this
to make it slow mo i right click on the clip, go to speed and then change the speed
thanks

I encountered this problem as well, and back then it turned out to be the setting of the clip. It has to do with the upper field first or lower field first. Most pro broadcast systems use upper first, most DV formats use lower first. If they get mixed up, the jerky images come up. They will become more appearant when doing slomo's. Check the settings of the sequence, and the clips. Should be the same. If it's not, you might have to recapture with the correct settings, or start a new sequence with the right settings.
Hope it helps.
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.7)

PPro CS5.5 freezes -- what's going on?

I'm an experienced video editor, but new to Premiere Pro. Running on an iMac with Mac OS 10.6.8. My first project is a pretty simple one -- only one long captured clip plus a few still photos overlayed in Video track 2.
I'm playing the sequence timeline, and about 4 minutes from the beginning playback just stops. Sometimes, Ppro just hangs completely -- no response to mouse clicks in the app or the menu bar, space bar, etc. Sometimes, though, I can select menu items, move the current time indicator, switch tabs and activate different windows within PPro, but nothing I've done restarts playback.
In the menu, I selected Quit. PPro closed all of the open windows, and then it hung before it completed the Quit operation. I got rid of it with a Force Quit.
This freezing behavior has occurred several times while I've been working on this project, and I'm only about 4 minutes into the timeline. At this rate, I'll never finish the project.
As a "newbie" to PPro, I would appreciate any explanation of what's going on, and all suggestions about how to avoid this "freezing" behavior.
Thanks,
FastBIll

Thanks for the suggestions, John.
In PPro, my timeline contains two clips on Video 1:
1. Teaser, about 11 seconds long
2. Show, just under 1 hour long
These were both captured from a miniDV tape as a DV/DVCPRO NTSC .mov file. Frame rate, 29.97 fps. Dimensions, 720x480.
At about 4:12 into the timeline, to cover a shooting flaw I inserted a JPG photo on Video 2. Dimensions, 720x534. I added a cross-fade transition to the beginning and the end of this photo.
Yesterday, I noticed the red "unrendered" line above the photo, so I rendered that portion of the timeline. Now there's a green line above this photo.
I moved the current time indicator to the left of the photo and pressed the spacebar. The movie began to play. The cross-fades and photo looked perfect. A few seconds after the end of the photo, PPro just froze. Moving the CTI does not change the frame in the Program window; it's frozen at the frame where playback stopped.
I'm running PPro CS5.5 on an iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8. The entire PPro project is on an external Firewire 800 drive, which is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Thanks again,
FastBill

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