Playback problems in Premiere

[JustinBaker]

Hey everyone!

I'm trying to edit two 6 minute clips together in Premiere Pro CS3. The video playback is quite choppy, and nothing I do seems to work. The clips are both .avi files (mpeg v3, PCM audio). I defragmented my hard drive and it didn't help. I'm using a Dell Inspiron 5100 Laptop... 2.66GHz pentium 4 with 1gb of RAM.

Any Ideas?

-Justin

[Baldrick]

mpeg v3? or do you mean mpeg4 v3?
Are they choppy in the viedo preview? or also when export the video?

[JustinBaker]

sorry, mpeg4 v3. and yes, choppy in the video preview.

[Baldrick]

Try export and see how it looks like. And if it's still chopppy I would use Virtualdub and open the avis and export to another video format like uncompressed avi or dv and then import in Premiere.

[Guiboche]

Since Premiere Pro 2, specific codecs in the AVI format will just NOT playback. This has nothing to do with your system.

I don't know why, but since version 2, they've made the program SUPER picky about what it wants to playback. Anything outside of DV nearly doesn't work.

The only way to fix this this would be to convert the files to DV first. Then edit that.

I myself still have the old Premiere Pro version 1.5 kicking around, because it's the only version that works with other codecs (such as Huffy) properly. I have a pretty powerful system, and I can't even playback Huffy AVIs inside Premiere Pro CS3. The program just doesn't want to.....