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large image weirdness
PPro 1.5
I routinely import a PSD file as a sequence, so I can animate the layers, then use a nested sequence on my main sequence. I have found that PSD files larger than 1500 pixels in either dimension wreak havoc with rendering, often resulting in a green display upon playback.
Sometimes the green-ness appears in the monitor window while editing, pre-render. If I hit Enter to render the work area, in some cases nothing happens, the red bar stays red and Premiere refuses to render anything.
So in those cases, such as the current moment, I try reducing the PSD size again, but if I go much smaller I lose my intended effect.
Why does Premiere have such problems with large images?
Thanks to all.
Mike Cohen
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4 Replies
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I should add that occasionally when this green weirdness happens, Premiere freezes completely. As is the case right now.
Premiere 1.5 – P4 2,8 ghz, 1gig ram, external SATA drives for media.
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Sounds like PPro is running out of memory, which isn’t surprising at all.
You’re probably better off doing those animations in After Effects. While Premier can theoretically import a file with dimensions up to 4096x4096px, the memory consumption is just astronomical. I just went through this recently when I did a pan and zoom sample of a large mosaic image (https://www.37thexposure.com/montage.wmv). Premier (2.0 in my case) simply choked every so often, and I’m running on a Core 2 Duo with 4 GiB of RAM. I even had to slice the image up into smaller chunks (no larger than the 4kx4k limit) just so PPro could handle them. Then try to splice them back together while animating. It’s a nightmare.
After Effects on the other hand was able to accept the whole file as is, 7502x9216px, 200+ MiB, without a glitch. I’m working on a (much) larger mosaic today (1.1 GiB) and once again, AE is purring like a kitten. I wouldn’t dare try this with PPro.
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glad to hear other people have experienced the same thing. I just ordered Boris FX, which should solve this problem.
Mike
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Good luck. Post your results, how well it performs and such.
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