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does .wav files increase significantly the project size
I’m working in Premiere CS2. I have a film footage that was transferred to betacam SP and then synchronized with the sound. To avoid problems in recapture I chose to import synchronized projects into big one for editing and work with original .wav files. So far so good, but now my project reaches 108Mb of size and crashes every couple of hours. I know that one solution is to break the project to smaller ones (it’s a documentary and I still have a 1/3 of footage to add) but it will not be comfortable so I accept other suggestions.
And I’m wandering if I would have been exported the synchronized video and audio and then import those clips into the project for editing I would not had this project size and such a problems?Thanks for the attention!
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Audio is not what is taxing your system. Lack of resources, lack of drive space and lack of RAM (and/or processor power) probably are.
I import .WAV audio all of the time into my projects and, as long as I have plenty of space on my boot drive as well as my media drive, I don’t get crashes.
Are you compressing video at all?
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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No, I’m not compressing video it is simple dv captured with premiere. Disk space is enough I think – I have almost 200Gb at my system drive and over 400Gb at my media drive and CPU is quite good – core duo 2.33 or something near. But probably 2Gb of RAM are not enough… Still I can not believe that my project is 145Mb. Even if it is 15 hours I never had an SD project that big!
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Project files can grow very fast, and resources disappear, ver2 had some problems with memory release, I’d max out the memory to 3gigs it would almost double the ammount of memory Ppro2 would have available and monitor memory usage with the task manager and when it get low, save and reload Ppro, it will free up stuck memory and reduce the chances of a crash.
Ppro2 also works with wav(pcm) files better than other compressed formats -
I agree with Brian that increasing your system RAM is a good idea. He states 3G and he is correct in that your system may only allow your applications to use 3G but, if you have to add RAM in identical pairs, you may need to max out your system at 4G. Good thing is that RAM prices continue to drop.
Premiere Pro may be failing to release RAM and also remember that your boot drive is being used as virtual memory. Make sure that your startup (C:) drive has enough free space and is not heavily fragmented so that, as Premiere Pro needs more memory (physical or virtual) it has the ability to get what it needs.
Save your work and exit the application at least two times daily. That will clear out any RAM that Premiere Pro does not appropriately release. If you are using other applications or have a number of background tasks running, do a reboot, which will free up the maximum amount of RAM.
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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A pair of 512MB PC6400 is under 20$ and a pair of 1Gig is about $25 so its not too expensive either way.
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