Adobe Premiere CS4 Mac - playback issue
 

Hi,

I just got Premiere CS4 for great interface and workflow on my latest loaded Macbook Pro 2.66 GHz. I'm having stuttering and choppy playback any .mov regardless which transcoders I use. I had to render it in Timeline to make it playback nicely but again I cannot get it to work in multi-cam monitor with any .mov file track. very frustrating. I tested same clips transcoded into .avi and it runs all 4 tracks perfect with multi-cam monitor on my old pc running Adobe Premiere Pro 2.

Apparently Premiere doesn't like Quicktime intermediate codecs. If this is the fact, that leaves me with no choices except not to use Premiere and go back to FCP. Any thought on this?

Jun

If you want to edit on a Mac using Premiere CS4, you will need a more powerful computer.
Adobe Premiere's performance is very poor and it is more than ridiculous that Adobe thinks they can pass off this junk that they call Premiere CS4.

Even on my fairly quick MacPro I get stuttering video and crashes whenever I try to edit native avchd or even ProRes intermediate files. I also tried Avid's intermediate codec as well as Cineform Neo. No difference. Anything HD doesn't play or edit or encode using CS4.

I should have known the issue prior to purchase Premiere. I cannot even capture in quicktime with Premiere. It crashes if you want to chance capture setting to quicktime and it doesn't recognize SONY FX-1000. If I shoot in SD, there no way I can capture that with Premiere. That's ridiculous.

That leaves me no choice go back to FCP. Thanks!