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I am trying to edit a project with some very nice Red footage. Resolution of the Red RAW footage is 4,096 x 2,304. The project is a medium complex project, I would say. It has the raw footage, shot on greenscreen, with the following effects and layers:
1. Talent was masked, keyed and color corrected in PPro. I tried to export to AE using a Dynamic link but that was a quick fail. It got hopelessly confused and wouldn't work correctly (it would crash, convert all clips to the first clip, etc.). I love Dynamic Link and use it all the time with our Panasonic 170 footage, but the large size of the Red files seems to cause problems.
So, we got really good at keying in PPro.
2. We then used that sequence as a track in a second sequence, where we dropped in the background and a reflection layer. We also did light wrap using Digieffects Delerium 2 plugin.
Here is a screen capture of a sample frame:
Before I describe the current problem, let me describe my computer:
Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07 Ghz
24GB RAM
Windows 7 64
System drive is a 4GB SATA drive (not RAID)
Project drive is a 8 x 2 TB SATA tower. RAID 10. Sustained data rate is roughly 225MB/second
NVidia GTX 285 4GB ram
We are running MPE successfully
SO ... what is our problem?
1. Very slow timeline editing. How slow? Well, I have been editing on PCs for 15 years and this is as slow as I have ever seen. If you click to a different part of the timeline it just sits. Half the time it doesn't change the display. Sometimes it does.
2. Dynamic link doesn't work (see above).
3. Previews take roughly 1 hour per 15 seconds of timeline to render. The project is 2 minutes, so that means it takes 8 hours to render previews. At 1/2 quality. Yikes!
4. It will not render in Media Encoder. It crashes after about 6 to 8 minutes.
What am I doing wrong? Is this a known problem? Is this just too much to ask of PPro? Should I first have a professional house transcode the Red RAW down to 1080P?
Thanks!

I'll agree with Jim on this... my system is identical to his, except that I've got a GTX285 instead of the 470 for graphics. I can edit 4K (and even 4.5K) RED RAW files smooth as butter on my system. I do have to keep my playback resolution down at 1/2-1/4 to get smooth playback, but it is definitely smooth at that. I'm not using any of the real big fancy third-party plugins, but I have done a good bit with multiple layers of the three-way CC, Levels, and much more... And I've got several tracks of video with interviews, b-roll, etc, so rather complex timelines. I experience no issues at all with working with RED RAW footage, so I can vouch for the fact that it's not Premiere... sounds like something specific to your system or your workflow.
I would agree with the advice given above to key in AE first and then bring it in to PrPro that way. Sounds to me also like you might have a memory issue--are you running other programs along with PrPro when doing this? Perhaps have a bad stick of RAM in there somewhere?

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