Unreliable Video performance in Premiere Pro CS5.5

Hi there all ..Since rebuilding my PC to replace the original rotating OS disk with an SSD, I have been having all sorts of hassle with Premiere Pro CS5.5... in essence, video is often (but always) choppy although the frame counter advances smoothly... Audio is OK
The issue that causes me the most angst is the demand for hi speed transfer... Why is this needed? Here is the root of my lack of understanding:
I can record 113 minutes of 1920 x 1080 imagery at 25fps on a single 32GB Secure Digital card.. this represents a transfer rate of less than less than 5MB per sec.. So why can't my external G-Speed 4-drive bay (using a pair of drives in RAID 0) push data into Premiere Pro fast enough over a single 3Gb e-sata link fast enough to prevent choppy video??
Essentials of the system are:
Asus PT6 SE Motherboard
Intel i7 920 @ 2.97GHz
24GB Ram
NVidia GeForce GTX 580 Video Card (3GB Video RAM)
OS resides on a 500GB Crucial SSD
Project Data on a GSpeed 4-bay eSATA drive. Drive 0 and 1 configured as RAID0 (Drives 2 and 3 are RAID 1 and act as one of two backup locations)
I have run the PPBM 5.5 tests and have the results. As simple as they are, I do not know how to interpret them :-)
"539","81","52","9"
Your thoughts would be appreciated on what insight I can derive from the test results and second, why the heavy duty emphasis on Disk I/O performance when 5MB / sec gets you full HD...
Cheers
Steve

Hi there Jim
Well, I guess “Disk I/O - and 539 is simply horrible” gets nicely to the point The first task is to find out which one since I presume the number combines performance time of Video and scratch disks…
No disk approaches 90% capacity.. so that is out. I do have one drive that is showing signs of getting flaky though it is not one used by PP… Dodgy driver? Hmm could well be.. I have HD Tune Pro..I will run it again and see what it comes up with.
I had an email from Harm echoing your thoughts and he also provided me with a link to follow up..
Thanks for your insight I will let you know what I find..
Cheers
Steve
(PS If I don’t get this done before Chrimble, let me offer you Season’s Greetings )

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Two separate hard drives are the required minimum for PPro......currently, the best performing and cheapest setup would be : C drive= 120GB quality SSD, D drive = 2x 7200 RPM HDDs in onboard RAID 0 for pagefile,previews, and all cache files. E drive= same setup as "D", for media,project files, and export. F drive = large 7200 rpm disk for necessary backup of important files and backup of "D" drive. All drives should "indexing" and" compression" turned OFF,( under drive Properties window).
Less expensive would be just three separate 7200 RPM HDDs...that could be OK with just DSLR footage which is so compressed that it requires less actual MB/sec., unless you are using many tracks of video, upping the requirement needed.
Read the many posts and articles by Harm Millard and Bill Gehrke....they have contributed a tremendous wealth of knowledge and experience to the readers.....preventing many from making bad purchases and expensive mistakes when trying to construct a machine that will perform well....their website, PPBM5 is invaluable as it can show you all the video benchmark results of differently configured machines. It is a good guide as to what you may want to build,or, purchase.....Good Luck!!

Premiere Pro CS5 never uses more than 15% of CPU, so, performs much slower than premiere 6.5!

Hello.
I'm doing wedding videos for quite a while. My hardware included DV500DVD card and premiere 6.5, CPU is Core 2 Duo E8400, 2GB of RAM, Windows XP SP1 (DV500 can't work with SP2 or SP3).
The above mentioned system is quite old, and absolutely not usable for HD videos. So, I've decided to build another machine. The configuration is as follows:
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.
M/B: Asus LGA 1155, H67 chipset.
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K
RAM: 4GB DDR3
HDD: 2x 64GB SSD, 4 x 2TB SATA (RAID) (All HDDs connected to separate PCI-E controller, so intel chipset flaw is not an issue here)
I've recently downloaded and installed the trial version of Premiere Pro CS5, to see, how it suits to my needs. And I'm very dissapointed. I've started premiere, selected DV-widescreen preset, inserted two static pictures on timeline, and did an alpha blend between them. Then put movie to export. Not only it took way too long time to render, but it only used single core, and cpu usage is only 15% ! Just for curiosity, I've installed premiere 6.5 on same system, and it did that task about 10 times faster!
What is this, limitation of trial version, or just Premiere Pro CS5 can't be used with this modern CPU ?
Thanks in advance,
Alex

First off 4GB of ram is really to low for CS5. CS5 is 64 bit for a reason and requires far more ram. 2nd, what video card are you using?
As for the opteron system the other poster listed, you could get the lower end Intel platform and easily out perform that opteron system. A Geforce 450GTS video card would out perform that Quadro by 2 or 3 times and that card is barely over $100.
No offence but you can't run CS5 on minimal or very old specifications and expect the same results as everyone else or older software. If you can't upgrade the hardware then I suggest staying with the previous version until you can. The MPE engine requires allot of resources to function especially ram and your lower spec or older system will just bottleneck the pipeline rather than speed things up.
Eric
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I had to re-install Premiere Pro CS5 and now video are files acting funny...

Hello. I had to reformat my system drive and did a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and then I did an anytime upgrade to Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I then re-installed Premiere Pro CS5. Here's the problem. When I open any of my projects that I worked on BEFORE I re-installed Premiere (when I was using Windows 7 Home Premium), the video files on the timeline all look corrupted when I play the timeline now. They have these weird block artifacts and also a constant pulsing thing going on. I deleted all the media cache files and all the media cache database files but, nothing changed even though Premiere conformed every single video file in the project again. Then, I went to "Sequence" and hit "Render Entire Work Area" and after Premiere was finished rendering, I noticed the artifacts and pulsing are completely gone BUT, the video files look like a VHS tape that has been recorded over a few times. The edges of people and things in focus aren't nice and sharp like they were before I re-installed Premiere. I DO NOT have the time or patience to have to delete all the video files and import them again into the project and re-edit the entire scene! Can someone please help me resolve this problem?! I am about done with Premiere!
Is there a way to delete the video source files that are on the left side of the timeline (next to the "Source" window, where they got imported into the project) without deleting the edited video files on the timeline and then re-import the same source video files into the project, kind of like "refreshing" the video files? If this is possible, it seems like this would fix the problem without me having to re-edit everything again.
*Update* My idea of just re-importing the source video clip won't work either. I deleted one of the source video clips, which deleted its reference clip on the timeline, and I re-imported the video source clip to see if it would play all weird in Premiere and sure enough, it has the same exact block artifacts and pulsing effect like all the other source clips in the project. It seems that if that's the case, it might be a codec problem. But, that doesn't make sense because if I open the clip on my hard drive with Windows Media Player or Allplayer, the clips plays perfectly fine and looks like it is supposed to. So, it must be a codec problem in Premiere??? Could it be that Premiere Pro CS5 doesn't work well with Windows 7 Professional? I find that hard to believe. Can someone please help me?
By the way, all the video clips in the project are from my Panasonic GH1 or my Panasonic GH2. They are all 1080p/24 AVCHD. I even made a new sequence within the same project making sure the sequence settings are AVCHD 1080p 24 and still nothing is fixed.

Have you tried exporting a 10 second section of the footage to see if the issue shows up once the seqeunce is actually exported from the timeline. I edit on CS5 with windows 7 pro at work quite often and have no issues so I assure you that isn't the issue. I also edit with AVCHD footage when at home and work quite freqeuntly as well so I'm positive that isn't the issue. It sounds like a GPU driver has been corrupted in the way it interacts with premiere pro. What type of GPU do you have? If it supports MPE's GPU acceleration have you tried turning it off and seeing if that makes any difference?
Anyways though try to export a 10 second test section of your timeline to see if when the clip is exported from premiere it will play normally in windows media player or vlc or w/e media player you want to use. If it exports fine then you can almost be positive it's a corrupted video card driver. If that's the case I'd re-install your GPU's driver and also check your gpu makers website to see if they have a updated driver avaiable.

Premiere Pro CS5 Performance Issues

Hi. I have been using Premiere Pro CS5 5.0.3 for editing videos that I shoot for several years now. I offload all the video files I shoot from a Canon XHA1 camera from a SanDisk compactflash card to a Drobo S Raid 0 array (all the drives in the Drobo are Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm drives) that I have hooked up (via an eSATA cable).
This has worked well for me but I have been noticing that I am now getting more dropped frame errors both in the program and source monitors. I started a new project yesterday:
General
Editing mode: DV NTSC
Timebase: 29.97fps
Video Settings
Frame size: 720h 480v (1.2121)
Frame rate: 29.97 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2121)
Fields: Lower Field First
and when I imported the footage into Premiere Pro I started getting more dropped frames and sluggish playback as to render Premiere Pro very aggravating. It is still usable but the situation is growing worse. Here are my system settings that I dumped from Belarc:
Operating System
System Model
Windows 7 Professional (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)
Installed: 4/1/2011 12:30:28 PM
Boot Mode: BIOS (Secure Boot not supported)
No details available
Processor a
Main Circuit Board b
3.20 gigahertz AMD Phenom II X4 955
512 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
6144 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M4A79XTD EVO Rev X.0X
Serial Number: MT7001K65700722
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 2102 06/17/2010
Drives
Memory Modules c,d
13096.83 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
10398.62 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH10LS30 ATA Device [Optical drive]
PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A ATA Device [Optical drive]
Drobo 3rd Gen DRDR3- ATA Device [Hard drive] (8796.09 GB) -- drive 3, SMART Status: Healthy
Kingston FCR-HS219/1 USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Kingston FCR-HS219/1 USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 7
Kingston FCR-HS219/1 USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 5
Kingston FCR-HS219/1 USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 6
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB Device [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 8, s/n NA05WRQ4
ST31000528AS [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 6VP3PB7D, rev CC38, SMART Status: Healthy
ST32000542AS [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 2, s/n 5XW0A59J, rev CC34, SMART Status: Healthy
ST3300622AS [Hard drive] (300.07 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 4NF1TJ5M, rev 3.AAH, SMART Status: Healthy
12288 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 4096 MB (serial number SerNum00)
Slot 'DIMM1' has 4096 MB (serial number SerNum01)
Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB (serial number SerNum02)
Slot 'DIMM3' has 2048 MB (serial number SerNum03)
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) *
300.07 GB
158.49 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 1)
1000.20 GB
771.85 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 2)
2000.40 GB
1462.25 GB free
g: (NTFS on drive 8)
1000.20 GB
939.29 GB free
p: (NTFS on drive 3)
8795.96 GB
7066.74 GB free
* Operating System is installed on c:
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Administrator
7/14/2009 1:08:59 AM
(admin)
Guest
never
HomeGroupUser$
never
Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account
Amyuni Document Converter 2.50
on LPT1:
Epson ESC/P-R
on USB001
EPSON Stylus Photo RX580 Series
on USB001
HP LaserJet Professional P1102w
on USB004
Microsoft Shared Fax Driver
on SHRFAX:
Microsoft XPS Document Writer
on XPSPort:
StudioJet 50
on USB002
Controllers
Display
ATA Channel 0 [Controller] (3x)
ATA Channel 1 [Controller] (3x)
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (3x)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 [Display adapter]
LG W2340 [Monitor] (23.1"vis, s/n 001NDCRGL339, January 2010)
Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (20.2"vis, s/n BR20HCGL502449, May 2006)
Bus Adapters
Multimedia
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (2x)
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (5x)
Blackmagic Audio
Blackmagic DeckLink WDM Streaming
Blackmagic Driver
High Definition Audio Device
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None discovered
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Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
↑ Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
primary
Auto IP Address:
192.168.1.104 / 24
Gateway:
192.168.1.1
Dhcp Server:
192.168.1.1
Physical Address:
E0:CB:4E:E5:E8:D3
Connection Speed:
100 Mbps
Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Networking Dns Servers:
75.75.76.76
75.75.75.75
1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy)
HID-compliant consumer control device
HID-compliant device
USB Input Device (3x)
HID Keyboard Device
HID-compliant mouse
USB Composite Device
USB Mass Storage Device (2x)
USB Printing Support
USB Root Hub (7x)
Generic volume shadow copy
N:\
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Q:\
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My question is how do I trouble shoot this problem? I suspect that my video card is getting old and needs to be replaced but I don't want to buy another one as yet (especially when I don't know if it will solve the problem).

Do the PPBM5 Benchmark and send the results to me by PM, in addition to sending the results to Bill as indicated. I'll have a look at what might be going on here.

Unreliable Video performance in Premiere Pro CS5.5

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