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Imported video will not play
I have been trying to use adobe premiere pro cs4 for the last two months. I thought that I had worked through most of my issues but it appears that I have not and I know think I need help.
I have reloaded the program a number of times to deal with this issue.
1. I have a number of quick time and avi files that I am working with.
2. All of them play in the windows media player and the quick time player.
3. All of them have played in Premiere Pro at various times.
4. I have captured most of these videos with Premiere Pro.
5. Once I reload Premiere Pro I will be able to import (I can always import) my clips from the disk.
6. I will be able to play them in all of the monitors.
7. I will be able to use the program as if it is working perfect.
8. I will be able to shut it down and reopen it and it works (most of the time)
9. Then at a random time I will open the program and load a clip and it will not play anywhere. I will be able to pull it to the time line and it looks like it should play. Many of the other functions work as I can still cut the clip in to any number of pieces.
10. during all of this the video will not run.I first thought it was that my disk was to full and now I make sure that I have at least 50GB free disk space all of the time.
I thought it might be memory (I have 2GB)so I have not been having any other programs running.
I am looking for suggestions to try.
Thanks for any help.
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9 Replies
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[pat deneen] “I first thought it was that my disk was to full and now I make sure that I have at least 50GB free disk space all of the time.”
You should include your computer specs, also it sounds like you are just using one disk for the OS, apps, and video source material -
Thank you for responding.
1. Yes I am using one disk that has everything on it.
2. Computer specs:IBM think pad X61 (my son is on the US Ski Team and I travel with him all over the world and need a small laptop. I import all of the large video files on to a WD Passport 500gb hard drive then when I need a file I place it on the hard drive in the computer. The hard drive in the computer is a 320 GB 7200 rpm drive.
Intel Core Duo CPU
L2400 @ 1.66 Hz
980 MHz, 1.99 GB Ram3. I reloaded the program last night and I have edited a 6 minute video and it is still up and running…It did tell me that my system resources were getting low so I saved and exported the work to an AVI file so that I could reload it without having all of the video that I used to create the clips on the desk top or in memory and it is still working this morning …
Am I pushing the computer? I thought that the program would run on this computer. I am using XP but will upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out in October….
Does this provide some better insight to my issue?
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Are you trying to edit DV or HDV? Is that a tablet laptop? I believe it has a express card slot?
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Again thank you for responding ….
I have both DV and HD video but after some reading it looked like HD would take to much resource to edit so I have imported all of the video as DV so I am working with only DV.
Yes the computer that I am using is a Tablet X61.
Yes the computer has an express card slot.
Thanks for your help.
Pat
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Hi Pat,
Have you tried editing from the WD external drive? It may work more smoothly for you.
Jake Williams
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Yes I have used the WD. It does work well until the video freezes and then I have to uninstall Premiere Pro and reinstall it again and then it works again for a random amount of time. Right now I am not using the WD and and it has not locked up for about 8 hours.
Pat
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With the specs you have you can do limited DV from a single drive, but it is easy to get into a fight with computer housekeeping functions, one reason I asked about the express card slot is that you can add an eSATA express card adapter and use a SATA drive in an eSATA enclosure and it gives basically the same performance as an extra internal sata drive and lessens the chance of a conflict, reason I mention conflict is I had a thinkpad R61 that I tried to use as a DAW but there was so much exteraneous stuff loaded it kept hanging the software, the R61 had an advantage that the harddrive was easily swapped and had both PCMCIA and Express card slots, I swapped the hard drive and just loaded the OS and drivers, and had no problem running Cubase and Audition on it, also loaded Ppro CS3, had no headaches, problem with running a external USB drive for source footage is that there could be a bunch of stuff running in the background that ramdomly polls the USB ports and that will screw up data transfers, and hang the machine also the same if running on one drive, one thing that might help since you are using XP is a program utility called “enditall” which allows you to shutdown most programs that run in the backgroun and cause you grief with editing. keep in mind that CS4 is a memory and processor hog and if you try to do too much at one time could hang the computer
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Brian … Thanks for the help ..
I think that I agree with what you are telling me …The usb drive issue is what is probably making the system hang and freeze at random times … I am going to down load the endital program and see if that helps … what I do not understand is that once the program hangs up I have to uninstall and reinstall the program to get it working again …Again thanks for the help and leading me down the right path to figure out what is going on … Pat
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[pat deneen] “once the program hangs up I have to uninstall and reinstall the program to get it working again”
Have you run any error checking on the drive? it might be a good idea if you haven’t, do a scan and recovery for bad sectors, it can take a while if you have a large disk, sounds like something maybe corrupting your installation
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