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A new kind of crash (for me anyway)
Aloha from Maui,
This used to be common in earlier versions of Premiere but I thought it was fixed in… like version four or five.
Back then Premiere used to crash when I used the alt> or alt< to move entire clips frame by frame. It seemed to be related to displaying the clip audio since when you collapsed the waveform view, Premiere didn't seem to crash as much. Now I see the same thing on PPro 2. Granted, I haven't yet checked to see if it gets better if I collapse the audio waveform display, but PP2 certainly does crash when moving a track quickly for more than a few frames. It doesn't seem to crash when you use the Shift-Alt>.
Also, is it my imagination or is every version of Premiere Pro getting noticibly slower? I ran a test on the same project when I was considering moving to PPro on XP versus Premiere6 on Win2k. Believe it or not, it took almost exactly twice as long to render the same 30 minute show (again, the exact same show on two identical computers, one running XP and PPro1 vs Win2k and Premiere6.)
It just seems like I wait for Premiere longer and longer with every new version. The only thing that makes it worthwhile is that the UI and extensive use of keyframes makes putting a project together so much quicker that it makes up for the time I waste waiting for the computer. But I wish I could have both. Don’t you?
p.s. Fixing the green screen that would appear instead of Photoshop files helped, I really like that!
Ron from Maui
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I find that PremPro is the fastest most efficient version of Premiere that I have ever run (and I have been in since the earliest version made) so I can not concur or relate with your experience.
Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)
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I agree that it’s the most efficient. In my experience it has slowed down over time. For example, I never migrated from version 6 to 6.5 because it was widely argued that the real time elements introduced in 6.5 slowed down the app. I never tried it because that wasn’t a critical issue for me at the time. I did go to PP1, pp1.5, and PP2.
My reason for writing the post however was to bring up the issue of crashing while moving clips with alt>. Do you have any insight into this element?
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By the way, I’ve been on the Premiere train from the beginning as well. I’m one of those that had the Matrox DC30 card (the generation before the 30+). I haven’t had the luxury of owning the latest and greatest hardware to go with each new version so perhaps the weaknesses and ineficciencies with Premiere along the way were more apparent to me.
I almost didn’t switch to PP2 since 1.5 was working (except for the green screen on stills thing), and I’d heard about some stability issues in version 2. However I did make the move and so far, am glad I did.
While it does crash more often that 1.5 did, and when it does, the damage is more severe with titles in the project rather than as independent files, it communicates much better with the rest of the Adobe family. It’s better in most ways, but I hope they dont’ stop working on it. There’s still a ways to go.
ron
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