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nexgenVP
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Why does Premiere Pro stop, or drop frames when using the Timecode Effect.

Mar 6, 2012 9:34 AM

The Timecode Effect is gpu accelerated, the render bar is yellow and it still drops frames.

If it drops frames on a yellow bar, how can I ever trust it to print to tape? It wouldn't be a problem if I could say render the yellow sections of my edit, but it won't because the bar is not red. Very frustrating!

Running 64bit windows 7;

gtx470 graphics card;

12GB of memory (9 reserved for Premiere)

Raid 0 _ Speed Tested Excellent

working with uncompressed black magic 1080i AVI's

It seems to happen when I have overlapping clips with the Timecode Effect on one or both. Plays fine if just a single clip with the effect.

Any help would be great, hopefully I'm just missing something simple..

1441 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: nexgenVP, Mar 27, 2013 10:38 AM
 
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  • Harm Millaard
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    1. Harm Millaard,
    Mar 6, 2012 9:49 AM   in reply to nexgenVP
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    Your system may not be up to umcompressed BM material. If it is HD that is just packaged in an AVI wrapper, you need around 1.485 Gbps per track sustained transfer rate or nearly 200 MB/s per track. With two tracks 'Speed Tested Excellent' may be too slow. With two tracks you need at least 4 disks in Aid0 and a fill rate below 50% on all of them. Even then frames may be dropped.

     
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  • Jim Simon
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    2. Jim Simon,
    Mar 6, 2012 12:57 PM   in reply to nexgenVP
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    Render Entire Sequence will include the yellow sections.

     

    Or, you can always turn off acceleration before rendering.

     
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  • nexgenVP
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    3. nexgenVP,
    Mar 7, 2012 7:43 AM   in reply to Harm Millaard
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    Harm,

    Here is a capture of my speed test. I do have 4 disks on a raid 0, very little data on the drives. I have run 3 tracks of HD with different levels of opacity with no problem. I do crash the drives when I add the forth. So I would like to think that two tracks with accelerated effect should be fairly simple to playback. Am I wrong to be thinking that way? Also only working with 8 bit, This test is for 10 and up.

    SpeedTest_Capture.JPG

    The read comes in above 500 mb/s. It was on the way up when I captured it.

     
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    4. nexgenVP,
    Mar 7, 2012 7:41 AM   in reply to Jim Simon
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    Jim,

    Thanks for the tips.

     
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  • QuintFilms
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    5. QuintFilms,
    Mar 26, 2013 11:11 AM   in reply to nexgenVP
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    What kind of hard disk do you use?

     
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    6. nexgenVP,
    Mar 27, 2013 10:38 AM   in reply to QuintFilms
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    I’m using 4, 2 TB drives in a raid 0 setup. That’s about all I know about them.

     
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