I've spent hours trying to figure out what the deal is with this, and I've come up empty. I'm hoping someone out there can shed some light on why it is I can't edit using multicam in Premiere Pro. I'm trying to edit a simple music video, which is just multiple angles of an artist with a solid background (there's not a lot of movement).
System Specs:
Intel i7-6700k
32G DDR4 (running at 2133)
960 Pro NVMe M.2 for OS
950 Pro NVMe M.2 for footage/project
GTX 1080
Windows 10 Pro
The source footage is 12 takes from a Panasonic DMC-G7, filmed in 4K/24p 100Mbps (MP4).
I've created a project in Premiere, imported the video footage, imported the stereo wav file, and then created a multicam sequence with audio synchronization. Then I created proxies for all video, trying both 1024x540 H.264 as well as 1024x540 GoPro Cineform.
If I then switch over to my editing workspace and turn on Multi-Camera View, then start playback, everything goes to hell. Playback is stuttering horribly, at best, but more often than not no clips even move (despite the audio playing). I've tried setting playback and pause resolution all the way down to 1/16 and have the same problem. If I go into the multicam sequence and turn off visibility for all video tracks except any 2 of them, things at least play at that point.
While this is happening, if I take a look at Task Manager in Windows I don't see anything even coming close to hitting the roof - CPU never goes above ~60%, memory is fine, disk is fine, and of course GPU is at all of 1% since nothing is using it during playback.
I am at a loss here. I would think this machine that I just built a year ago is more than powerful enough to handle editing like this using lower resolution proxies, plus nothing in task manager indicates there's a resource problem, but am I wrong there? I also tried editing off 2 WD Blacks in a RAID 0, and unsurprisingly, that made no difference.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
FWIW, you can basically see exactly what I am trying to do here: Edit a music video |