Hi all - footage from my 5D3 is very choppy on the timeline (prem pro CS5.5) and occasionally, when rendering out it falls over when encountering 5D clips - not always though which is baffling. It's now driving me nuts and I want a solution before I get busy again with weddings this year.

I'm wondering if anyone has similar problems and how you get around them - can you recommend any transcoding solutions.

AVCHD footage and XAVC-S from my other cams play smoothly without any problems.

Pete

Hi Pete. I hope more expert people come in, but I'll ask some questions that may she'd some light.

Are the clips from your 5D on an SSD drive? Are you using All-I compression? Which effects are you applying to the clips? Have you tried editing on another editor to see if the problem occurs there? What is your OS and computer specs?

changed my mind on this one.

Chris I'm using IPB compression. The clips are on a standard 7,200 speed hard drive (not SSD) and on the timeline they have no effects. Clips play smooth only for a couple of seconds and then get choppy.

Intel i7 processor 3.40/ghz, Windows 7, 16GB Ram, 1.5GB Nvidia CUDA card - it's a pretty decent setup.

Pete

It's definitely a codec issue then. Either upgrade to cs6 or transcode. I haven't tried it, but many recommend DNxHD from Avid.

UPDATE: Here is one program that I've used in the past for transcoding:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html

Cheers guys :)