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‘low on system memory’ error
Hi,
I am having some problems on a feature film I’m editing.
The programme is frequently warning me that it is “low on system memory” and then becomes very sluggish and stops responding shortly afterwards.
I have encountered this once or twice before, on other projects but never so often.
It is a large project, but I have split it up into sequences of no more than 15 minutes and am working from those.
Is this a common problem? And would anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this?
Many thanks in advance,
Adam Clements -
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[Adam Clements] “It is a large project”
Premiere Pro has issues with large project files (.prproj) over about 30 MB or a large amount of source material and stills.
You may want to divide your project into several subprojects. You can copy/paste Sequences from one Project into another and the media will also paste. Dont put too many eggs in one basket. -
Ah,
that might well explain it. My project is currently just shy of 100MB…
It does actually seem to be running okay at the minute, but if it starts happening again, I’ll try this out.
Thanks!
Adam -
I had the same problem with my project. I had about 11 sequences in 1 project so i split it into four project files just to be on the safe side each containing 2, 3 or 4 sequences (will be adding a few more).
Now to get a full compile what i do is i render the individual sequences into uncompressed Microsoft Avi files, then i have one new project file in which i line up all the AVIs behind each other then export that as a fullblown .avi
Then i encode it into XViD or X264 using Virtualdub. A bit laborious but it does the trick for me so far (knock on wood).
My project file was only 10megs but it heavily still image based so lots of those in there. And i dont know what kind of machines u guys have, i’ve got 2 gigs of RAM.
Hope this helps if it becomes a problem again!
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