I've seen many threads about choppy playback in CS3 and CS4, but no answers -- just people saying "I have choppy playback, help!" and others answering "I don't have choppy playback, you're nuts."
Well, I'm nuts then.
I just built a new PC to upgrade to CS4. It's a dedicated shrine to Adobe -- nothing else on this machine except CS4 and windows XP SP3.
Memory: 4GB of DDR2 memory.
HD: four SATA hard drives.
Video card is ATI Radeon HD 4800 series. Nothing fancy.
I optimized my machine specifically according to the Adobe recommendations. New fresh WinXP install on new clean HD.
The same clips that looked and played back fine in CS2 on my slower WinXP SP2 machine are now stuttering and stammering in the preview window.
I'm voicing the same frustrated cry as many before me. "Don't tell me I have to revert back to CS2!"
There doesn't seem to be any point in going to CS3 since many have complained that projects that looked fine in CS2 were choppy in CS3.
I'm going to try settings on the video card. But seriously, there are too many people having this problem for it to not be solvable or at least identifiable.
I'm exporting my first video file and I am holding my breath. If it exports as choppy video then I may throw my hands in the air, revert to CS2, and curse the name of Adobe.
Well, I'm nuts then.
I just built a new PC to upgrade to CS4. It's a dedicated shrine to Adobe -- nothing else on this machine except CS4 and windows XP SP3.
Memory: 4GB of DDR2 memory.
HD: four SATA hard drives.
Video card is ATI Radeon HD 4800 series. Nothing fancy.
I optimized my machine specifically according to the Adobe recommendations. New fresh WinXP install on new clean HD.
The same clips that looked and played back fine in CS2 on my slower WinXP SP2 machine are now stuttering and stammering in the preview window.
I'm voicing the same frustrated cry as many before me. "Don't tell me I have to revert back to CS2!"
There doesn't seem to be any point in going to CS3 since many have complained that projects that looked fine in CS2 were choppy in CS3.
I'm going to try settings on the video card. But seriously, there are too many people having this problem for it to not be solvable or at least identifiable.
I'm exporting my first video file and I am holding my breath. If it exports as choppy video then I may throw my hands in the air, revert to CS2, and curse the name of Adobe.