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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Freezing
Hello Creative Cow,
I am editing a feature film in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, and when I first had CS3, I did the majority of the edits within it. The project spans a lot of data, large apple pro res chunks from the film processing lab, as well as lots of P2 data and then tons of sound files.
Using all of these previously was of no concern when I was in CS3, it all flowed nicely and I edited the whole film within a week with close to no errors or holdups.
Now, that I have upgraded to CS5, I have been trying to make my final tweaks on the film, and it continually freezes on me. I’ve never had this happen before to me.
It first started freezing whenever I would move a clip, I would have to wait about 8 minutes between adjustments for the project to load itself, going into a frozen (Not Responding) state.
Now, it is freezing as soon as I open the project. It has to load about 1100 files, and it goes for a few seconds and then stops and freezes.
When I tried to render out a sequence from it, it would render the first 100 frames fast, and then freeze.
My computer is well adjusted and capable of the task, and it has never been a problem for me in the past using CS3. I have a quad core 2.83ghz processor with 8GB of RAM and a 1GB NVIDIA video card.
Can there be some project settings or something that is slowing the project down? I’ve noticed that a lot of my footage is also marked red when it didn’t used to be red, I’m guessing because I am editing 1080i into a 720p timeline to match other sources.
Anyways, sorry for the long rant, I just wanted to make sure I gave as much information as I could. I would really appreciate the help. I’ll continue to look for some workarounds. Thanks!
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3 Replies
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Hi Daniel,
It’s quite possible that the project just isn’t optimized for CS5.
Have you tried deleting all the render files? Are these on the same type of drive you were using with CS3?
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I suggest that you start a new CS5 project.
Then import your CS3 project one sequence at a time. CS5 will aks you when importing PPro projects if you want to import the entire project or just sequences.
Next after bringing in one sequence, try to play with it. Render it, playback it, change the sequence settings… etc… And bottomline you have to find it what is the part of your old CS3 project that turned out to be incompatible with CS5.
Its a slow process, but necessary one.
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Have you applied the recent updates? There are a huge number of fixes in the 5.0.2, 5.0.3, and 5.0.4 updates for Premiere Pro CS5.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
Premiere Pro Help & Support
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