Adobe Premiere 6.5 Problem watching vidio in monitor window

[tsn]

Hello, basically, i am having a problem watching my edited video in the monitor window within premiere 6.5. If i double click on the video from the timline and open up a new clip window, the video plays wonderfully. However, if i hit the play button on the monitor window the video gets choppy and very unusable. watching my system monitor, it seems that using the monitor play pegs my cpu to 99 - 100% usage, however,playing the clip any other way keeps my CPU at about 30%. my system config is as follows;

windows xp proffesional
2.0 ghz cpu
512mb memory
20gb free disk space 7200rpm hdd
gforce3 video card
direct x 8.0a

any help anypone can give woud be much approiciated. Thank you

not sure if SP1 and DX 8.1 would fix this issue or not.

[LiGHTS]

yea i get the some problem, any one know an answer?

[AJackson]

Did you render the timeline?

Timeline
Render Work Area

[LiGHTS]

still dosent work, and i dont see why i have to do something extra...

[AJackson]

Sorry that did not work. I do not consider myself a premier wizz. As for why you would have to render:

I have notice that Premier bogs down on anything other that DV format. I think when you render you are converting the timeline to a DV format preview (do not quote me, it is just a guess) Mabey as a test: Export your timeline to Microsoft DV AVI movie with uncompressed audio then open a new timline and import the file that you just created. Now try playing in the preview box.

Other things to try:
Make sure no other aplications are running

good luck.

[LiGHTS]

ah thanks... i was gonna do HUFFYUV in vdub but darn, takes up toooo much HDD space... thx again

[darkufo]

Does the clip on the timeline have any transitions, titles, effects, audio ?

Are there other clips on other video tracks , alongside your clip ?

[LiGHTS]

no, just a simple divx file encoded in vdub. i tried the plane mpeg, more laggy then the divx, and the direct AVI from the camera didnt work (unsupported.. i think it uses some kind of windows avi encoder) in premiere, so i had to encode. should i encode to uncompressed?

[BJ_M]

if you are encoding --- it will not be uncompressed..

you mean "render" to uncompressed?

[AJackson]

Is your DV camera pluged in to your computer via Fire Wire? If it is the fire wire port takes priority over your preview sceen. If this is the case, you should see a jitter free picture on you DV camera. It should correct itself if you unplug the DV camera.

Just a thought
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[TOMMO]

Hi, I have a similar problem with version 6 of Premiere. I cannot comment on 6.5 has I do do not have that version.

A simple work around is to capture all my clips and save them as per normal. Close premiere, reopen it and then all the clips play fine in the monitor window. Strange but it works.

Hope this helps. By the way, this is with DV captures.

[LiGHTS]

im not using dv camera, im using avi files, divx and a differnet version (that wont work in premiere). but yea, when i work with the DV files, i dont get this jitterness. (or atleast in 6, never tried DV files in 6.5)

[drilldoc1]

There's a file in the premier folder called prem60.ini. In 6.5 the line is there to edit that says something like FastPreviewWhileTransmitting=whatever. Change the whatever number to 1. Then premier will play all the frames.