"flaybin" <brimc777@go.com> wrote in message

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> I'm going nuts here. I'm using Adobe Premiere 6.02...HP Pavilion

> 868....Windows XP.... Had no problems. Now suddenly every clip I play

> has choppy audio stuttering. I've tried almost every single thing

> suggested on line. Reinstalled....Checked every setting...Downloaded the

> patch...secrched for hardware conflicts...Defragged my hard drive etc.

> ....still doesn't work. I thought maybe my 80 GB master drive just got

> too much stuff on it.....(It was up to 65GB full)... So I got a new hard

> drive and moved all my clips there.....still stutters...Tried installing

> Premiere on the new drive....no luck......I'm thinking it could be some

> kind of software conflict somewhere....what the hell is going on? Any

> help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated!

We have lost one heck of a lot of 80-gig Maxtor drives lately...

Is this what you have? If so, download the test software from

the Matrox site and run the "thorough" test 3-4 times (it takes

a while...) to see if it generates an error code. If the drive you

copied the clips from was going bad, the copied clips may also

be defective. Look first for other causes, like programs running

in the background, and a preview drive that is nearly-full or

fragmented (or the same as the program drive, especially if it

is nearly full). Are you getting the stuttering from playing the

timeline in Premiere (should not happen, unless you have a lot

of filters on the audio, and you are not rendering the audio)?

Or when playing the clips in the media player (not uncommon...)?

Are the drives in UDMA mode? You should have at least a

second drive for video material (I prefer to have separate

program, preview-, source-, and finished-file drives...).