Help With Premiere and GoPro

maynaiseman

maynaiseman

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Hello M&A, I'm having a few problems with editing, which i'm fairly new at. I just got adobe premiere cs5.5 and it's working good, and I also got a GoPro HD Hero 2 for christmas. I can get the videos into premiere fine but when I play them in there, like in the top rightish part of the screen where it plays what you've edited, it's extremely laggy and will skip ridiculously. Is there something I can change to make the playback better? Also, on my gopro when you transfer videos off it onto the computer, how do you get them off the sd card? I put the videos into my video section, dragging them off the sd card folder, but when i turn my gopro on it still says 28 videos and only like an hour left of footage. Help Please! Much karma
 
so you're using a pc? what are the specs on it? if it's a rather slow computer, then Premiere won't be able to handle the raw footage and that's why it's slowing down. you might have to download a program to convert the footage to a a file type that is easier to use. or you can always use adobe media encoder which comes with premiere.
 
for your premiere problem when you preview a video it loads the video using your ram as you go (ram preview) and youve probably got your setting on high preview settings and rez etc. so turn your resolution down to quarter and quality to low and itll preview faster, that or load your ram preview before previewing.

As for the sd card, when you drag and drop to your computer it doesn't move them, only makes copies of them so once you have them saved somewhere on your computer go back into the sd card on your computer and delete the files from it.

Hope this helps
 
Thanks to both, my laptop is a pc, and fairly new so it's not the computer I dont think, i'll try what Justin.B said and I hope it works. Karma!
 
make your preview window smaller by dragging the corner, than rightclick the preview where your video is and change the playback rez to quarter, but leave the paused at full. alternatively hit sequence up top and hit render entire work area or effects, whatever you need prerendered than you should be able to preview and scrub smoothly!

hope this helps/simplifies
 
have you rendered the videos once you add them to the timeline? If you havent, that is probably your problem
 
okay so by rendered you mean.....like loaded? Guys i'm shit with editing and editing terms and this is the first video i've ever made so please excuse my ignorance. And I put my rez to a quarter and it still is laggy.
 
when you put you clips onto the timeline hit enter, something should pop up saying the amount of frames being rendered. if it doesnt go up to sequence in the bar at the very top of the screen and click on render entire work area.
 
This. If there is a red line above the shot in the timeline, you have to render it. If there is a yellow line, Premiere can probably play it without rendering. If there is a green line, it has been rendered.
 
haha, speaking of that i have been using premiere for about a year now, and i just noticed that baout a week ago hha
 
You need to encode the original files to an intermediate format like DNxHD or Cineform. Then import those and edit the encoded files but once you are done editing, change the converted folder name and then tell premiere to look for the files in the folder where the unconverted files are. You need to make sure that the converted and original files all have the same name and file extension for this to work,.

Essentially what happens is that Premiere cannot handle the original gopro footage smoothly no matter what computer you have. The format is terrible for editing, so once you convert you will have a smooth preview so you know what is happening. Then when you want to render the edit you swap the folders so that the original and highest quality video clips from the GoPro are rendered in place of the compressed clips that you edited with. Works great.
 
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