Hey all.

So hopefully I can get some advice on how to best setup my Premiere projects for the best performance.

I have the 15.4-inch Retina with 2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 processor and 16gb ram and a 500gb solid state internal. Also at my disposal I have 2 x 5400rpm 500gb usb3 drives.

I am struggling to get realtime playback using the HQ mp4 renders from LRTimelapse. I have dropped the playback and paused resolutions down to 1/4 and have experimented with placing the cache and scratch disks on both the internal solid state and on one of the usb3 drives and I still cannot get realtime playback.

Does anyone have any advice on what an ideal setup regarding the cache and scratch disks using what I have available?

Also in the sequence settings for playback, would anyone have any advice on that the best preview settings would be. I have been experimenting with these but I have not found one that helps me out really.

   

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Attached please find a grab of my current sequence settings. I am working in 1920x1080 at 25fps in pal.

I'm about to be in the same boat. I just bought a new Mac pretty much identical to yours. I've been trying to figure out AE and it's not simple either. What I did find is that on the Adobe site there are some pretty good instructional videos on getting started. One of the early ones goes over setting up AE in the preferences. Premier is probably similar?

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/digital-video-...rformance/

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/le...fects.html

Right now I'm exporting through LRT3 using Gunther's 1080 setup and simply moving them over to the new iMovie I have on this machine. At full resolution it looks pretty darned good and is so simple it's a bit silly.

I will probably venture into AE and Premiere, but for a quick look, this LRT3 and iMovie works great. Not sure what the export scenario will look like but it is certainly worth a look.

I'd be interested to hear what you learn about using Premier with LRT.

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Just found this, lots of links that could be helpful for both AE and Premiere:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2475693#2475693

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