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Crashing problem… please help
Hi… I’m having a serious problem with pp 2.0. I’m not even working with video at the moment, I’m compiling a series of images. But PP keep crashing everytime I put a new image or put a new transition/changes on the time line. It keep coming up with “Updating Timeline” and the dots… and it’s not going anywhere, but it let me save, although after that it didn’t let me get out of PP and crashed the whole computer. Please help. I don’t know what to do. I’ve brought it to get it checked and repaired, and it’s still doing it… any ideas why?
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What type of computer, what size images, what image format?
Vince
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Running on Windows XP, 3.60GHz, 2.00GB of RAM, image size was around 3mb but already being re-sized outside of pp, and they are RGB jpegs, and one gif.
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3 MB jpegs are pretty hefty images (resolution). Premiere typically uses 5 X the data size in RAM. A couple hundred of these would choke many PCs.
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Fotos are really more of a pain than you might expect. I suggest you plan your layout, moves, and sequence before doing anything in the computer itself. Take the time to pre-vis your stuff and save the hassle of these crashes. When you’ve got the pre-vis worked out, then cut/crop/resize all your fotos-to-be-used in Photoshop before importing them into PP2. It’ll also shorten your work-flow time allotment to know what you want to do before you get the chance to be distracted by what you “could” do in PP.
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Heya… I’ve done all of that, and I’ve resized the images outside of pp as soon as I knew that it was around 2-3mb in sizes. But wasn’t doing any better… I’ve got a rough storyboard, so I know pretty much what to do but I don’t have a chance to do anything since when I import the image into timeline it crashed the computer. Will it help if I convert all the images into gif or tiff?
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Jpg should be ok. Tif is going to be larger in file size. Gif shouldn’t be used at all. Png is my personal favorite. Premier hates bmp.
Hope that helps. Check your dpi in photoshop. A 1440×1080 file at 300dpi is overkill for video. 1440×1080 (or 50% larger) at 75dpi should be just fine. It’ll cut down the size of the file dramatically.
If you’re using XP, try checking out the image resizer powertoy from Microsoft if the Photoshop scripting is becoming a pain for you. -
Thank you very much for the tip. I’ll try those 🙂
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