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CS6 Playback problems with more then 3 Video Layers

May 8, 2012 8:39 AM

I am having problems playing back a project with more then 3 HD video-layers (PIP and MultiCam).

After one second playback of video stops and I can only hear audio.

 

The same projecet in CS5.5 can be played with 8 !!!! active HD video layers without problems ...

 

Must have something to do with disk IO - I can play 9 HD streams with multicam if I use the same video on all 9 layers (each with a few frames offset)

 

 

I920,18GB RAM,GTX 680,9TB Raid5

 

regards

michael

 
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    May 8, 2012 9:41 AM   in reply to filmfx

    Try the PPBM5 Benchmark and submit your results. That may show if there is something wrong with your setup.

     
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    May 8, 2012 10:05 AM   in reply to filmfx

    You can read here:

     

    Adobe Forums: Taking CS6 Out For A Spin

     

    to see if any of that info helps.

     

    And I know its a painfully obvious question, but is hardware MPE enabled for the project when it's open in CS6?

     

    Jeff

     
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    May 8, 2012 10:53 AM   in reply to filmfx

    Then it seems to be down to something that's changed between 5.5 and 6 -- either on your system (possibly fixable) or something hard-wired into Pr (probably not fixable).  Some more things to check:

    1. Is there any difference in your installations?  3rd-party hardware, drivers, plug-ins, media and cache locations, preferences?
    2. Have you tried this in a brand-new CS6 project?  Not one that was opened and converted or one that was imported?

    If none of that works or provides a clue, then I'm stumped.

     

    Jeff

     
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    May 9, 2012 2:22 PM   in reply to filmfx

    I seem to be havng the same problem on three different computers I've tried.  It's driving me crazy.  Having already paid for the CS6 upgrade I'm getting ready to step back down to 5.5 !!!!

     

    None of my multicam sequences are playing properly.  Other symptoms are that the video thumbnails are not appearing on all the clips and when you go to the source sequence and double click on the file it says media pending even though it all shows online in the project window.

     

    This is a major major shop stopper for me.  I'm seeing this with only 3 cameras / 3 layers too.

     
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    May 10, 2012 2:56 AM   in reply to filmfx

    Yes all three use HDD, but I'm running 3x2TB as a RAID 0 and it works flawlesly in CS5.5.  

     

    CS6.0 is BROKEN.  There are other problems that is prventing me using it.  It's taking around 5 minutes to make a single AVCHD clip renderable.  It just sits there with 0 frames rendered for about 5 mins then suddenly takes off and renders like normal.   CS5.5 does not have that pause.

     
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    May 10, 2012 10:48 AM   in reply to filmfx

    Are you using clips that span the 4GB boundry, e.g. AVCHD or Canon MXF etc?    I've found that those are the cause....  but you may have different reasons....

     
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