I'm running premiere 6.0.... I just built a new machine because the old one was too slow. I used a mid-level gigabyte motherboard, intel core i5 processor (3.8's), 16 gb ram and the nvidia (evga) gtx 570 graphics card. The system is dissappointingly slow... any time i drop a clip into the preview monitor I get the 'video is unavailable' screen for a good 30 seconds. Longer for longer clips. The machine will not play even a single layer of 'yellow' video without rendering... forget multiple layers... the timeline stays yellow but the machine will not play it unless I force the sequence to render.
I have a friend with a similar system except he's using one of the mid-range quadro video cards... his system plows through any timeline, loads video instantly even from usb 2.0 external drives. We're both editing AVCHD 1080i video... mine exists on a raid 0, his on various usb 2.0 hard drives.
Could my graphics card simply not be enough card? Could the card be bad? It is a refurb from evga.... their stuff is usually very reliable.
I'd appreciate any feedback and advice!
Dan
