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Rendering freezes up in CS4
I put this is “Premiere basics” by mistake – presumably that’s for older versions?
Anyway, I’ve got a terrible problem with my new Pre-Pro CS4 which I was so looking forward to getting, after using FCP 5 on an old G5.
I’ve set up a 640×360 project, based on the iPod preset sequence, but just changing the size. I’m importing quicktime DV files and it all works fine UNTIL I make a title or import a JPG or PSD file. Then, when I try to render, it freezes at “0.01% Complete” and I have to force quit to get out (I’m on OS X 10.5). I can’t export those files through Media Encoder either, presumably the same problem.
I’ve tried changing to various codecs for the Video Preview; It will render stills and titles with a DV-PAL codec, but obviously that doesn’t work with my frame size etc. All the other codecs I’ve tried freeze up the render, or just won’t export (in the case of Uncompressed). I’m not short of scratch disk space.
Any ideas? I’m having to do my titles in FCP 5 and paste them together in qt pro to do the final export (because Media Encoder won’t export h264 mp4s for streaming… growl).
Can anyone help me out with this?
Thanks
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If I go into my sequence settings and choose “I-Frame only MPEG” for the Preview File Format, rather than Quicktime, it will RENDER the video, stills and titles fine. But it still won’t EXPORT them: the Media encoder still freezes up. The DV codec will export, but, of course, it resizes to 720 wide, which I don’t want… The whole point is to end up with a 640×360 movie.
Any suggestions/help/ideas really appreciated. This is driving me mad.
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can you export from a standard sized sequence, such as DV 16:9 or whatever your original video is, to the iPod setting, rather than making your sequence have the smaller iPod dimensions?
If that works, but you still want your sequence to be using the iPod settings, take your standard sized sequence and add it as a nested sequence to the new sequence and resize the nested sequence accordingly, and see if that exports.Mike Cohen
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try to set the project up at the frame size/rate you want, but make custom sequence settings and choose “desktop” with no compression…see how that works.
I can’t help but wonder if the base compression in the clip just isn’t playing nice…
TimK,
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Thanks for your suggestions. I’m already using Desktop; but if I choose any “Quicktime” codec, including “none” or “uncompressed” instead of the “I frames only”, it locks up when I try to render.
I didn’t understand about the “nested” stuff: I’m sticking with the 720×576 size and cropping off the edges to make 640×360, rather than resizing it, so I’m not sure if exporting using a preset would work.
After being a big fan of Photoshop and Pagemaker, Premiere Pro is failing to impress me so far – there are some great features, but then something bad happens to prevent me getting the footage out right.
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I got on to the Adobe support people: they eventually suggested I create a new user, restart in OS X safe mode (hold down
on startup), and then reinstall just Premiere from the DVDs.
That appears to have fixed the problem: I can now do Quicktime Video Previews, and I can export to various Quicktime codecs, not just DV.
There must’ve been some kind of corruption going on during my original install.
I hope this is useful for anyone else who finds themself in this situation.
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