Video lags, drags, stutters when previewing in Adobe Premiere Elements...

13th Mar 2010 16:57 #1

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Long time no post. I haven't had any issues, that is until I bought a new computer. The new computer is an HP 170t. Windows 7, 64 bit, i7 processor, 9GB RAM, Nvidia GTX260 - should be sufficient.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/computers/desktops/HPE180t_series/rts/3/computer_st...Y604AA%2523ABA

It replaced a 2002 Sony VAIO that I ran into the ground for eight years daily. I could load up three or four tracks of .avi video, effects, filters, etc. and play it back with no problem. Of course it took a couple of hours to render a file.

I have installed a 1TB internal hard drive that I use only for video, I'm not using the same drive as the OS for my video. The file I'm playing doesn't even have any effects, filters, titles - nothing. It plays for about 15 seconds then starts to hang, stutter, stop, etc. Makes no sense to me, I certainly have enough fire power. I'm sure there is a solution, I just don't know what it is.

With the program opened it is only using 2.5 gb of RAM and 2% of the CPU. I am editing .avi video. The video is five minutes long, one track only. Nothing else loaded in the project.

I'm running PRE 7. I have updated the video card drivers. I unplugged all of my external hard drives.

I have found a solution to every video problem I've ever had on this forum. Please chime in if you have any ideas. Thank you.

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13th Mar 2010 17:06 #2

poisondeathray

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What kind of AVI ? use gspot or mediainfo

Have you done some tests on your HDD ? transfer speeds? eg. run hdtach or hdtune. Perhaps it isn't configured properly

Have you looked in elements' options to configure for multiprocessing and memory usage, scratch disk etc....

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13th Mar 2010 17:54 #3

Captain Satellite

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I don't see any setting for CPU or memory, only scratch disc. Here are the screen caps. Thanks for your reply. I did find a setting for 'no scroll'. It didn't seem to hang at all when I changed it. By the way, this is the HDD I yanked from my dead computer. It was only about six months old. Are the warnings an issue?