CS4 and windows7 64bit experience

[Jon Barrie]

Are you running the latest version updates?
The original cs4 install had some issues in this area and updates fixed it.
Cs4 does have a problem with the match name only feature. Sorry. But the updates address finding relative path media so you don’t have to find everything just a few bits to point at the relative folder.
– Jon Barrrie

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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[Jake Williams]

Hi John,

I am running with most current premiere 4.2.1. I did not have the match name problem in vista and so was surprised when it came up in win7. Same for the re-indexing and re-conforming problem. (it also happens after a project has been open for awhile too.) I was hoping that there was some way to change my configuration to fix the problem.

I guess I have to live with it and the lost time which when added to the crashes under win7 is starting to add up.

Thanks for the reply.

Jake Williams

[Jon Barrie]

If you are working on projects that are not newly build, I’d clean the media cache from the preferences and let the entire conforming, indexing process start again. It should only require to do it once. The only reason it may keep doing it is that there is a problem with them. Cleaning them out, rebooting your system should give CS4 a clean set to work with.

Let it finish doing the conforming, indexing before working. it takes longer when you work while its happening and it means the conforming not yet done can be corrupted if you try to use the file its currently conforming.

Let us know how this works out.

– Jon Barrie

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net
http://www.suiteskills.com

[Jake Williams]

Hi Jon,

This is a new system build with Win 7 within the last few weeks so even though the projects were legacy the cache files (render/conform) were created the first time I opened the projects. I don’t normally edit while conforming/indexing but I do sometimes use encoder to render a second project while the other caches. So maybe that caused some of the cache files to be corrupted.

Right now I cleaned the media cache and will start over hopefully to better results.

Are there any other reasons that the files would go bad?

Thanks.

Jake Williams

[Ross Tokach]

The files could never go bad, unless you lit the drive on fire. Don’t think that is it. Everytime you load any edit suite it will have to reconform the files, if your doing proper backups. Try putting your cache on the drive with the project save, then put the scratch on the drive with your footage along with a copy of your file save. Then shut off all antivirus software ect…

“Oop, I think my render is done!”

[Ross Tokach]

Almost forgot, try readyboosting onto a large flash drive. I do this and it speeds all my program opening and closing by half.

“Oop, I think my render is done!”