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mp4 Hardware Issue?
Hey everyone.
I don’t know where to turn on this one. I can’t seem to get any straight answers from Apple or from Adobe, but maybe someone here has had a similar experience.
I am working on a project for a local business to create a short, 90 second video. We kept it simple and I decided to use my FLIP cam to capture footage. I imported about half of that into Premiere Pro CS 4.2.1 to edit with.
Now, everything is fine and dandy editing along the way until I have about 20 or so clips on the timeline. When I scrub through it starts to stutter and when I try to do playback it jumps all over the place. I am almost 100% I am using the correct settings to do this based on a tutorial I found where the guy actually puts his FLIP into the USB and captures it.
Anyway, once I get 20+ clips on the timeline it stutters like I mentioned and then when I go to export, the export will go about 90% of the way and lock up. Never to finish.
This is the second time I’ve done this. I started from scratch because in a previous project I had more clips, duplicate clips and a longer video using more clips and when I would export it would only go to about 70% complete before locking up. I cleaned up my project, started over and made it shorter and it seemed to go further.
Here is my question. I do not have an editing machine. I have a 2.66 GHZ, Quad Core, 3 GB 1066 MHZ DDR3 RAM and a NVIDIA Geforce GT 120 with 512 MB RAM on it as well. No other drives, just one drive that acts as the scratch, OS drive and file drive.
So. Am I asking my machine to do to much? If I was to put another couple of GB’s of RAM in, would it alleviate the problem or are we talking about a different hardware issue? OR am I completely in the wrong?
Thanks in advance. I love video, but I hate all the technical stuff that goes with it.
Mike
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Update.
I cut out even more videos on the timeline and I finally made it through a render. What limits the amount of MP4’s I am able to view/render within Premiere Pro? Is it my hardware or is it the software?
I used to record 10 minute long MP4’s for a video blog. I’d edit and rendering in PrPro with no problem. So I’m inclined to say its a hardware thing, especially since its 2011 and I’m still using 3 GB’s of RAM with a Quad Core…
Again, any thoughts would be appreciated.
Mike
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Most likely, it’s a drive thing. OS and data, especially video/motion data on the same drive (including if you partition it – it’s still the same physical device) is not a good idea for this.
Try adding a basic 1TB SATA drive first and move your data to that. See if it helps. It might be the lowest cost stopgap remedy for your situation.
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