I have tried my first hd project in premiere cs3 and using neoscene

The peformance is not as good as I expected, i think not much better than native edting
the hdv files.

The main problem is slow playback, when I start to play the time line it plays ok for about 2 seconds then goes choppy and plays kinda like a slowmotion, I have set both monitors to draft, same problem no difference.

I am using two clips in multi camera mode to edit a multi camera show
I thought that it would be ok but it is defo choking my computer making it hard to edit and watch. on top of that> I also added a fast colour corrector on each clip and that makes it even worst.

I think I will have to build a new computer to edit hdv which is a shame since this one is not that old.

Do you think I would be better with a hardware solution like the Matrox x2 anyone experience of that card?

my system at current
GIGABYTE 965DQ6 Motherboard
Q6600 at 2.4
8GB DDR-2 1066 RAM
WINDOWS VISTA SP1 X64

the system is on an hitachi 500 sata
and the capture is on an hitachi 1tb sata
the scratch discs are on another 500 sata
and the exports are on another 500 sata
4 drives in total

edting sd up to now fine no problems
please help as i need to edit a hdv project as soon as possilbe

I myself am having the same problem. I convert my avchd files using Neoscene, then import it into cs3. My preview settings is on draft using the acelerate feature option. Still it plays as slow as possible. Is there any on out there that can help us?

I have an AMD Phenom II Quad at 3.0 ghz
2TB sata drives
1GB hd radeon ATI Grphics card
8gb ddr2 ram.
windows vista 64bit

Still slow performance. I have spent over six month trying to figure this out. Is there any help out there. Am i doing somthing wrong. Ohh and premiere cs3 is only using about 30-50% of my processors.

Phil you're writing good ad copy for Prospect HD, which is Cineform's optimum product for use with Premiere Pro. In addition to the Cineform Codec, it has a module that replaces Premiere's clunky preview rendering engine.

http://cineform.com/prospecthd/

Im testing Propect HD, and yes the playback is waaaaayyy better than Neoscene. I only wished someone would have said that earlier. Neoscene, only gets you to the point when you can attempt to edit HD, but not all the way. The playback was so horrible. Now The only problem I am having with propect HD is, my dual monitor display dosnt seem to work with prospecthd. What am I doing wrong?

I wouldnt advice anyone to get neoscene. you might as well just buy prospecthd.