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Audio out of sync & low system memory major issues!
I have had the worst trouble with premiere pro 2 of late.
I have made a short film 22mins. Shot on Sony z1p HDV camera.
First, I started to have the classic issue of ‘not enough system memory’. My computer is Windows, AMD athlon 64 Dual Core Processor 3800+. 2GHz, 3 GB of RAM. With 3 Hard Drives, 80GB, 250 GB, 250GB. Which should clearly handle a 22min short film right? wrong. note, The hard drives had over 10GB of free space, each.
What I did was, delete all unneccessary files, disk defrag. format drive C. reinstall windows and upgrade to premiere pro cs3. still had the same ‘not enough system memory’ error. Premiere pro would crash as soon as i click the timeline. unable to make one single edit!!! what a joke.
Then I went back to an older project file, one I could open and actually edit in! however here is problem 2. half of the audio was way way way out of sync. like not 4 or 5 frames but like 2 or 3 mins out. and when i opened the clip in the viewer, the first half of the audio was the same as the last half. so i had lost half the tracks audio!
but when i opened the original file in windows media player its all there in sync – perfect.
Does Premiere Pro not want to edit films anymore? have they just given up and let final cut do the job? cause this is the last time i ever open premiere pro.
please help!
Jarrod
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[Jarrod Ryan] “The hard drives had over 10GB of free space, each.”
Your hard drives are way too full…they cant be defragged properly, especially with large video files and they run very slow when they are over 80% full.
Suggest getting your system drive down to less than 50% full and insure no scratch discs are set to it and defrag it. Then get an external drive to store most of the files you have on the other 250 GB drives. Defrag them and put your project folder on them.
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Yes I think same as Mike.
Go buy one Thera external HD (they are cheap now) and save your captured footage, clean your HD’s and defrag it.(you can’t defrag an almost full HD)
Almost full HD is an invitation for problems as you describe. Its not PP, its your personal configuration. -
Are you using an on board sound card? A stand alone could help with audio processing as well. that could account for out of sync audio in your project but not in your output.
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