There is a lot on these forums where certain things have clogged performance that are not related to hardware: codec packages installed, MOV "wrappers" on some media, errant drivers, etc. I would suggest running the PPBM5 benchmark (www.ppbm5.com) to get a reality check regarding how your PC is performing against a known project. That way, you will know with certainty whether you need to keep chasing hardware or something else. Please report the individual "scores" back to this forum as well.

Another benchmark to consider, which is really easy to do, is running HD Tune Pro (30 day eval is free) with block size = 2MB to insure your RAID is up to snuff. You should be getting a nice smooth waterfall decay in performance from the first part of you array (fastest) to the last part (slowest) with no massive spikes down. With your 2x1TB you should see #'s around: max = 230, min = 110 MB/s.

One tweak to suggest if you have not done it alreay is for your RAID 0 array: Win7 drive properties, click Policies tab, check both boxes: "Enable write caching on the device" and "turn off windows write cache buffer flushing on the device". This may help your build which has a fast CPU, tons of RAM, and is really light on number of drives relative to your other components. I will assume too that ALL your files are on the RAID 0 array (projects, media, cache, scratch, etc.); if they are not, try that. SSDs are great boot / program drives, but they do not work so great for CS5 / CS5.5 work.

Finally, two tips to use in the meantime so you can get some work done: 1) leave MPE enabled and do a "Sequence / Render entire work area" (from the menu) and 2) play with playback resolution (right click on playback window / playback resolution) to get your scrubbing and playback to work well. On the playback resolution, do play with different options; sometimes "full" may even work better than the easier resolutions (1/2, 1/4, etc.).

Regards,

Jim

To get to the policies tab from the properties panel shown in your screen grab:

- go to hardware tab

- select "drive" (your RAID 0 array in this case)

- select "properties" button

- go to Policies "tab"

- check both boxes "enable..." and "turn off..."

That's it!

Jim

The Scrubbing issue is a know issue with CS5.5. Cs5 did not have that problem which means it's tied to the caching model for CS5.5. When you are user interfacing in the titler, bring up the task manager and set it to always on top. Then start making adjustments and see if the interfacing/adjustments only use 1 thread like the key manipulation. If so then that is what is causing that lag.

Eric

ADK

I in no way represent Adobe but I have not seen your problem, of course I have never rotated text.   I have seen a few portions of Adobe that have not fully utilized all the cores.

You can try a free version of the cineform codec with this download:

http://gopro.com/3d-cineform-studio-software-download/

If you do, please report the results.

Is there anything which prevents you from using the program to export your .mts clips to cineform, and then importing the cineform clips into PP?  It's not a Premiere plug-in, but why would you need one?

How about Avid DNxHD, which is free?  I believe it's possible to export your .mts files through PP and then bring them back into the project, and export again as DNxHD.

Can't swear to it, because I haven't done it.  But I believe others have.

http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/red-yellow-and-gree n-render-bars.html

Can't recommend DNxHD with Adobe because Adobe does not support any MXF files encoded with DNxHD. Thus, the only choice that's even compatible with Adobe would be MOV, which will force QuiRckTime to be run, which severely slows down performance and causes a severe gamma shift in the encoded video.