Pentium K Adobe Premiere Pro CC - Problems!!

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Hi,

I am tinkering with Adobe Premiere Pro CC with a view to learning how it all works and making some family films/movies.

My spec is Intel Pentium K over-clocked to 4.2ghz and 8gb ram. I have no graphics card so use the onboard.

I have just done a short movie and its so choppy. The video and audio stutters and generally looks rubbish. The cpu is 99-100% all the time when its playing/rendering.

Is it likely to be the processor with it only being a dual core or is it because i dont have a dedicated graphics card so the processor is having to do everything.

Matt
 
I've never really got Premiere Pro to work properly.

Was on 4, now on 6, both versions crash regularly when trying to import a video file it doesn't like.

For example yesterday I tried to do a timelapse consisting of about 600 jpg stills.

First attempt to run PP, crashed on the workspace before it loaded the browser.

Second attempt, ran OK, imported the jpgs OK, set all the durations to 1 frame and put them on the timeline.

Pressed play, first couple of seconds OK but then preview starts jumping in steps. Works OK using the back/forward scroll though, can't understand.

Photo's too big in the preview so try to scale them, won't work if they're all selected, it will 'fit' them but now there are vertical bars and the subject is too small, i want them inbetween sized but I have to do every frame individually? can't understand.

Look for a way of rendering the stills to a video so I can scale that, can't find anything, I'll have to look at the manual when I have time.

While messing about with all this, the play/stop button in the preview window stops working so now I can't preview the video. Gahh.

At that point I gave up, and tried doing the same thing in Corel Videostudio. Guess what, it won't let me change the stills duration from the default 3 seconds, so I gave up with that and went to bed.
 
It'll depend on what type of footage you're dealing with but Premiere doesn't generally put a lot of stress on a GPU - it's all about the CPU and ram. A dual core CPU, even overclocked, will struggle.
 
While that cpu will probably struggle a bit, and final rendering will always be slow. Having the 960 with cuda enabled should now help with the playback of the timeline.

Once the card is installed make sure cuda is enabled.
 
RaV said:
While that cpu will probably struggle a bit, and final rendering will always be slow. Having the 960 with cuda enabled should now help with the playback of the timeline.

Once the card is installed make sure cuda is enabled.
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It might help with the playback but it's not down to CUDA.

"Here's a list of things that Premiere Pro CS5 can process with CUDA:

- some effects
- scaling
- deinterlacing
- blending modes
- color space conversions

It’s worth mentioning one set of things that Premiere Pro doesn’t process using CUDA/OpenCL: encoding and decoding."

Even if you are doing something that can make use of CUDA, it's such a small portion of the overall workload that it won't have a huge impact on overall rendering times - the bulk of it is still done on the CPU.
 
I have an FX8350 clocked to 4.5Ghz and 16Gb of 1600DDR3 RAM, and whilst I know the chip etc isn't the greatest PremPro CC 2015 does seem to struggle with frequent stopping and starting of sequences.

I often come across the play/stop button not wanting to respond (for a couple of minutes at a time) problem that SickAsAParrot experiences. I find that it seems to prefer all media (video at least) from the same source rather than a menagerie of difference camera and video types e.g. GoPro, DSLR etc. I did a family video not long back all from a 550D and it was happily scrubbing and previewing the video clips even with transitions. I was pleasantly surprised.

I think my next GPU will be an nVidia for the CUDA assistance, and the fact AMD haven't been that competitive for a while, which makes me sad :

When it works I find it's pretty good, especially the new Colour and Lumetri options 2015 has. Unfortunately like most CC products nowadays it has annoying bugs and we're the testers!
 
Cyanide said:
It'll depend on what type of footage you're dealing with but Premiere doesn't generally put a lot of stress on a GPU - it's all about the CPU and ram. A dual core CPU, even overclocked, will struggle.
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Oh well ive ordered it now. If it doesnt make much difference then ill upgrade the processor too.

Matt
 
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