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Hundreds of still on the timeline in a documentary project… PROBLEMS
I have just completed a 52 min documentary using PPro and Matrox RX100. I originally had the project divided into 5 sequences, just to keep it manageable. After editing all of Part One and starting into part 2 I started to have problems…the system would lock up, the program would get the adobe has just encountered a serious error message yada yada yada you all know the drill. Needless to say I would never have finished it with all of that going on.
Everything on my system is per the specs of Matrox and Adobe…I ran through all of it will the techs. Matrox said it was the way their card dealt with PSD files (none of which was over 2000 pixels wide). I tried tga files Jpg files nothing worked. If I had something already on the timeline and wanted to change it remove a transition or change a pan and scan it would crash…everything I read in the forums talked about everyone having the same problems. Apparently neither Adobe PPro nor Matrox liked many stills on the timeline.
To solve the problem I had to copy the project into 5 different projects and delete the pieces I didn’t want then rename the new projects.
After that it still didn’t work but at least I had it broken down into 5 projects. It was suggested by the local guru to render the individual projects out to avis and combine them that way…so that’s what I did.
To solve the locking up problem I just made the change on the timeline that I wanted and if it didn’t let me re-render I would save the project and then shut the project down close premiere and (with the task manager open- I kept it that way so I could see what was loaded all the time- wait till the tmp file dumped and the adobe verification let go and restart the program) then it would render my changes.
This was the way I finished the project and I had to do this ALL THE TIME EVERYTIME I MADE CHANGES TO THE ORGINAL TIMELINE. I have contacted Adobe but apparently they are not interested in hearing the story and the solution.
I hope this is really not the solution, maybe I am overlooking something obvious…but believe me for the past 6 months I have done nothing except try to solve this problem.
I hope this sheds some light on someone else’s situation.
I am running a P4 3.0
2 gig of ramall to spec
all updates
no other stuff running
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Unfortunately handling large quantities of stills has never been one of Premiere’s or PPro’s strong points.
Thanks for documenting your experience so others can work around when the time comes…
TimK,
Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net -
I use hundreds of stills in Premiere 1.51 with my Matrox RTX100 and I’ve never had a similar experience. The only problems that have really been troublesome have come when the RTX100 gets too hot. Sorry to hear about your problem.
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