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HD rendering in PPro CS3
Greetings, all:
I’ll keep this short and to the point. I am new to the HD world. I have a fairly new HP Quad Core computer. I import HD video files with the M2TS or AVI structure into Premier Pro CS3. Everything imports correctly, plays correctly although a bit choppy, effects and such are no problem. Here’s where the problem starts…
I save what I’ve done and press ENTER to begin rendering. It renders slowly, as expected due to large HD files. But it gets about 70% of the way and freezes. Sometimes it says “Failed to Create Movie File” or something similar. When it freezes, I have to shut down the program completely from the Alt+Ctrl+Delete method since it won’t shut itself down. What gives? I may have the settings wrong. I have tried creating a new project using both the .avi and the M2TS extensions. Same result. I am set on the 1080i60 setting of the first setup screen as well.
I should also note, this project is footage of a graduation party. It is a total of 16 minutes long. My main wedding projects will be 2 hours long. This means that I need it to be able to perform the task for a much longer project. But if it’s crashing at 16 minutes, I can only imagine the longer stuff. Can anyone PLEASE help me. I have been at it for 2 weeks to no avail. I have read the forums and can’t find anyone specifically with the same problem.
Any info would be greatly appreciated!
Thanx!
RR
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4 Replies
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Is the scratch disk formatted with FAT32? Sounds like you’re running into a file size limitation when trying to create a render file.
Kevin Monahan
Sr. Content and Community Lead
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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That sounds like great way to start diagnosing the problem. Thanx, Kevin. I don’t mean to sound like a ‘tard…but how do I do this format thing? I’ve heard of the scratch disk but never really messed with it for fear of messing something up.
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Hi Ruben,
Make sure your video files are NOT on the C: drive – you should have a dedicated second hard drive for video, and your video clips and scratch drives (in Adobe prefs) can all be set to the video drive.
Go to “My Computer” and right-click your video drive, and select PROPERTIES. Under the GENERAL tab, it should show the file system, and you want it to be NTFS. If not, that’s another story.
While there, UNCHECK the box at the bottom that says “Allow indexing”, as this will slow performance.
What is the preview render format? If uncompressed, that could be generating a huge file!
Jeff Pulera
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More info on specifying a Scratch Disk: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS369BD79A-5DF9-48d8-9F49-6B56026087C8.html
Kevin Monahan
Sr. Content and Community Lead
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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