Reverse Speed Causing Choppy Playback

I am using CC Premiere Pro 2014 and am getting choppy playback when I reverse the footage. The footage is slow and jumpy. The footage is mp4 shot at 24 fps. I have rendered the clip and still get the same results. Using a new souped up Mac and have cleared the cache so computer isn't the issue. Any way to fix this?

System spec:
Asus x58 P6-Delux
i7-950
12GB RAM(1600Mhz)
1 System drive 500GB
1 TB (RENDER+Project)
2X1TB Raid 0 (For Footage)
Nvidia GTX 570
OS win 7 64 bit (Professional)
PrPro CS5 (5.0.3)
Media Encoder 5.0.1.0
NO Extended Desktop (1 Display)
Project Setting : DV PAL (4:3 1.097PAR) 48Khz Lower Field First
Footage :20 Min DV PAL 4:3 1.097PAR 48khz Lower Field First
All Driver are update (cheked at the manufactor website)...

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I have a project which consists entirely of AVCHD footage from a Canon HFS10. The footage is 1080i30 (60i) and I have broken it into several sequences so I can put them together in a 'master' sequence in the order I choose. I wanted to reverse one of the sequences, so I placed the sequence into my master sequence, right-clicked on it, clicked on Speed/Duration, selected the 'Reverse Speed' checkbox, and clicked 'OK.' Every time, without fail, after 20-40 seconds, Premiere CS4 (4.2.1) stops responding and then crashes. Sometimes, I'll see a window pop up that says something about rendering the file. At least one of the times, I saw in the 'Applications' tab of Task Manager a task titled 'Droverlord' which also has a Status of 'Not Responding.' I have tried this with various sequences made from the original AVCHD footage with the same result. I rebooted the machine, and I get the same result as well. Has anybody reading this experienced this problem and if so, any advice on how I can successfully reverse a sequence?
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My system specs, if needed:
OS - Windows 7, x64, fully updated
CPU - Xeon e5440 x 2 (8 cores)
RAM - 16 Gb
Boot Drive - Velociraptor 300 Gb
Data Drive 1 - 2 TB RAID 0
Data Drive 2 - 1 TB RAID 0
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Thanks for the follow up on your issue. Did the issue resolve itself or did you do some strategic troubleshooting to correct the issue?
I ask since this one incident may be symptomatic of program problems that are currently being masked and that need to be addressed. However, as they say, do not mess with a good thing if everything is working now.
But, if the problem returns, please post again with details (answers are in the details).
Thanks. Appreciated the follow up.
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Why am I getting such choppy playback?

Long time reader, first time poster, I'll make this short and sweet. Here are my specs:
Imac 27"
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
24 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB
1TB internal Fusion drive SSD
I am working in a fairly big (1TB footage) 4k mixed with 2k project. It's a 3 simultaneous camera shoot, so I need to multi-cam. I have two external WD Caviar Black 7200rpm drives. I also have a Lacie 1TB Thunderbolt drive available.
Because the final output will be 1080, but possibly 2k in the future, I decided to import all the RED footage natively (as opposed to transcoding to prores 1080). All my sequences are 1920x1080, with multi-cam nesting in 1080 as well. Ram is allocated to 20GB Premiere, 4GB other.
No matter what I've tried, I always get choppy playback in the project...especially with multi-cam activated, even at setting my resolution to 1/4. What I've tried:
All Media on WD 01 drive...Project, Cache, Preview, Scatch on WD 02 drive...Internal SSD for OS and Apps: Terrible performance
All media split between WD 01 and WD 02...Cache, OS and Apps on Internal SSD...project, preview, scratch on WD 01. I also tried the same thing but with the project, preview, and scratch on my Lacie 1TB Thunderbolt and internal SSD: Slightly better than all media on 01 drive.
At this point I feel like I've tried every variation of where the MEDIA, Cache, project, and Scratch/preview files go but nothing seems to give me smooth playback consistently. I'll have brief periods where it's very smooth, but then choppy soon after. I'd understand if I were trying to edit in 2k or 4k, but all my timelines and nests are 1080. Even if I pre-render the sequence, it barely helps. Is it possible I need more RAM, a better GFX card, better external drives? Help?!
EDIT: Premiere 2014 updated to latest version. No big apps running aside from Premiere. All my drives have at least or close to 50% space available.

Recommend you take a look for disc layout & such over at the Tweaker's Page ...
Tweaker's Page ...
http://ppbm7.com/index.php/tweakers-page
Basically they recommend just the program file on the system/OS disc ... and then putting things on other drives as per the needs of the "asset" ... some need very fast connects, a couple only mostly fast connections.
Footage is mostly a one-way read-only operation, and export out is mostly a read operation, so those can at need be on somewhat slower connections as long as they aren't on the SAME drive over a slower connection. Such as say one of the PNY 128Gb high-speed USB3 flash-drives into a USG3.0 external port on your computer. I've adapted this from one of the other users, and it works fairly well for my 1080p footage. I export to one of several drives I've got in external boxes connected via USB. It's adequate, though not blazing.
Everything else ... project files, database, previews, cache ... there's a TON of read/write work going on constantly during playback with these. So 7200 or faster "standard" drives or SSD drives, connected internally via SATA-II or better, or external via eSATA-II and Thunderbolt connections are needed. None of the Firewire nor USB2/3 connections available have near adequate sustained read/write speeds to work in the massive testing they've done at the above mentioned site. The "burst" speeds claimed by manufacturers are achieved on the absolute most ideal set-up with the um ... right size? ... of data packets to get the best numbers. They aren't usable numbers for heavy and constant read/write demands like the Adobe DVA's through at the machine.
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That drive will work best for video editing compressed HD with the eSATA interface. FW800 would also give you a few HD streams. But, if you use the USB2 or FW400 interface, you're not going to be much better off than using your single drive. That's called a "bottleneck."
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Using PrPro CS5 with 2 clips overlaying each other. I have a sequence with settings 720X480 1.21 widescreen 29.97 FPS
I have a shot of a television shot at 1280X720 and I'm overlaying the screen with another piece of footage that is 720X480 1.0 stretched to wide screen to fit. I am trying to demonstrate that the footage I have on the screen can be played "backwards" but when I apply this effect (right click on footage, speed/duration, check the "reverse speed" box), the footage play choppy. It blacks out for over half the duration of the clip. Any help?
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System spec:
Asus x58 P6-Delux
i7-950
12GB RAM(1600Mhz)
1 System drive 500GB
1 TB (RENDER+Project)
2X1TB Raid 0 (For Footage)
Nvidia GTX 570
OS win 7 64 bit (Professional)
PrPro CS5 (5.0.3)
Media Encoder 5.0.1.0
NO Extended Desktop (1 Display)
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Footage :20 Min DV PAL 4:3 1.097PAR 48khz Lower Field First
All Driver are update (cheked at the manufactor website)...

Choppy Playback HDTV

I have the latest black Macbook with 4gigs memory. I have it hooked up to my sony kdl-40v4100 1080P hdtv through a mini dvi to HDMI adapter.
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The issue is the same regardless. The issue below is happening using a DSLR 1080p30 sequence. I have tested this in other sequences such as AVCHD 1080p30 and HDV 1080P30. The issue does not occur on other 1080p30 sequences. It seems to be an issue with the DSLR sequence only.
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Rolling back to driver 314.22 did seem to work at first but got the same issue.
Adding footage to the timeline = working,
Add adjustment layer = stil working
add lumetri effect with a LUT = the Lut isn't applied and the image freezes
Removing the adjustment layer = pause frames are black

ITunes 7.1 choppy playback issue on Leopard

I upgraded to Leopard today and updated my iTunes to 7.1. Unfortunately after doing so, I could not get any song to playback continuously. Some songs would only start after a few seconds or play for a second. Any guesses?
Thanks,
Sayaka

I've had choppy playback so much I could puke.
One reason seems to be if memory is filling up. See Activity Monitor and if the green part of memory is going away, that's one reason. Seems the only solution is to reboot as quitting all programs doesn't bring back any green and doesn't solve skipping problems.
Another reason is some other activity. If you're scrolling fast or crunching pixels in Photoshop, that could cause skips in the moment. It shouldn't, but it happens to me, and has been happening for a year or two.
But I think this latest release has some problem. Suddenly there's lots of threads talking about it. ANd I have it skipping with 3gigs of free ram free, and only Safari showing a simple page running on it.
The first song after I reboot, plays ok, but then it stutters, like fifty or a hundred periods of silence per song, scattered around randomly, each 0.1 to 1 second long. All songs finish, if you call that finishing, and they seem to take the correct amount of time to finish.
Maddening. iTunes is my stereo now!! will I have to go back to the old CD player?
here's some other threads:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1656310
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1464392 * most helpful *
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1667225
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7817189&#7817189

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