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very long project in premiere pro cs3
I will be doing a video of a live event and burning it to DVD. The event was 2:45 long…maybe 45 minutes will be tossed because of irrelevance. That still leaves a long project…my machine is cranky when handling the whole timeline. Using a pc 2.8 with two gigs ram.
Make separate sequences? Sorry is this is fundamental but could not find anything here or in my book.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Pat,
I like to break up longer project into sequences anyway as it is easier to get to different places as ideas pop in.You should then be able to put all the sequences together and author it…I do not know any other way…The specs on your computer are going to dictate how it’s going to render and run…
I have not done a project quite that big yet, but, you may need to suck up with upgrading…I also had a cranky machine…It was a quad core with 2gigs, 32 bit vista…I went to 64 bit vista and 8gig of ram, beefed up the video card and this thing processes video very awsomely…:-) For a very reasonable price…I was able to upgrade to 64 bit vista for no money because the licensing agreement (and key)in my case (with a Dell unit) allowed the upgrade at no cost…Ram chips are not really expensive either…A little labor charge if needed and your machine will screem…That’s of course if it’s got the motherboard that can handle it…
I probably also stated the obvious but it was fun to respond…
Good Luck!!!
“Thank You”
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Another tip: Close the sequence you aren’t working on (and restart your project). This saves memory. Also, make sure “Optimize for memory” is selected in preferences.
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Sorry for the lameness…what do you mean by close the sequence?
I will check out memory preference setting. Thanks
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Click the little X on the sequence tab. This closes the sequence, but it remains in your project bin. You can reopen it by double clicking the particular sequence icon you want to open in the bin (list mode, not picon mode). You have to restart Premiere to actually clear out the memory.
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Gotcha! Thanks!
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[Eric Jurgenson] “Click the little X on the sequence tab. This closes the sequence, but it remains in your project bin. You can reopen it by double clicking the particular sequence icon you want to open in the bin (list mode, not picon mode). You have to restart Premiere to actually clear out the memory.”
I’ll be darned if I can see the “little x” to which you are referring.
Any clues? Using CS3.
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Each timeline (sequence) has a tab that you click on to bring it to the foreground. These tabs are lined up along the top of the sequence window (qabove the timeline). Each tab has the sequence name and a little X to close it.
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