what codec are you working in? how big are your files (ie are they huge raw uncompressed AVIs?) try re-encoding to Avid DNxHD, you can download from Avid the LE codec pack. works with all CC/CS apps. it is the pc equivalent of prores, and should playback in realtime on your system. it works in either .mov or .avi. Sounds like a drive / bit rate bottleneck, or sequence settings mismatch to me. The whole point of Premiere is you dont have to render (as much). if your timeline is red, you may have a different working codec set for the sequence than your footage, or your footage is in an inefficient format. Also you will not get realtime performance from external / internal drives unless you are using FW 800 connection or better. What does windows report when you copy a huge file from / to your media drive? Anything under 60 MB/s is going to be slowing you down. just some ideas. if you have any technical questions about hardware I'd be happy to help.

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Mr. Eric D. Kirk <kirkproductions@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi David,

Thanks.  Some good pointers in there.  I never thought that using the same drive as your installations would have an impact.  That said, I rarely do that and try to use all separate drives for projects that way if the boot drive crashes, I don't lose my important files. Instead, it just makes for a week long effort to rebuild. lol

I will have to check out the speed test and verify cache location.

My first thought however was that there was just some procedure, similar to RAM preview so I was blaming Premiere for sure. :) lol  Now Vegas, which I really have loved for years did seem to have that lag as far back is like 2005 or so when I began using it.

Eric

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:27 PM, David Baud <david.baud@gmail.com> wrote:

From my point of view it is not controversial :-) …we sometime have a tendancy to put the blame quickly on a piece of software when the problem might be with our own system configuration…

When you say AVI file, what kind of codec are you using? uncompressed? you may have to create a RAID array if you are looking for realtime and consistency… but first I will make sure that your media is located on a different hard drive than your system/application drives… ideally the fastest hard drive on your system… as well as your cache folder…. you may want to use Disk Speed Test from Blackmagic or any other program to test the throughput you get with your hard drives…

HTH,

David Baud

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On Aug 18, 2013, at 18:08 , Mr. Eric D. Kirk <kirkproductions@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using an avi file, 29.97fps, no RAID. My storage is a combination of internal SATA drives and externals, however this project is on an internal.  I have a radeon 6900 (I believe) with 2GB RAM.  System has an I7, 36GB RAM.

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