Laptop A works fairly well with small Premiere Pro CS6 projects of 9 minute duration. Project is on external drive connected via USB2. Processing time is long, but at least I can get all my work done.
However, when I use Laptop A for larger projects (25-minute duration), Premiere becomes unresponsive.
Example: I try to press STOP during playback and it does no respond. In fact, the only way to stop playback is to press CTRL-S and wait for a minute until the CPU is ready to acknowledge your keystrokes.
On Laptop B the same 25-minute project performs fine (again project is on external hard drive, but this time connected over USB3).
So there are four differences between my laptops:
| LAPTOP A | LAPTOP B | |
|---|---|---|
| Make & OS | Win 7 Home Premium - 64-bit (Lenovo ThinkPad) | Win 7 Pro - 64-bit (Dell Precision) |
| CPU | Intel i5 | Intel i7 |
| Internal HD | SATA2 | SSD |
| RAM | 8GB | 16GB |
| USB | USB2 | USB3 |
I can live with Laptop A being slow, but the unresponsive is a show stopper for me. Please help me figure out which of these factors is causing the unresponsiveness.
Thanks!
Aaron
