PP Performance

[Vince Becquiot]

Depending on your machine, and especially a P4, this will happen if you are editing rendered footage. The only work around would be to purge the rendered files.

Vince

[Joe Landau]

That did it. Thanks so much.
Joe

[Alex Udell]

Hi Vince..

could you “hide” the render files by changing their path?

and then unhide them when you were done with the edit to minimize rerendering?

Thanks,

Alex

[Vince Becquiot]

No, unfortunately, I don’t think so. I remember this happening to me even on previous versions. The problem went away after I moved to a Core 2 duo.

The freeze has to do with the fact that Premiere has to work in the background creating new preview files when you make a cut for example.

Before they implemented that method (I think on PP 1.5) you would actually loose most of your rendering even if you did a simple cut on a clip.

I gave up rendering until I was done at the time.

Vince

[Joe Landau]

I thought I solved the problem, but it is back. I think that every time I do something on the time line, PP renders the area. Is there anyway to inhibit this? It is a real pain. Impossible to work with PP. I have a powerful duo machine with 2 GB of memory.

Joe

[Vince Becquiot]

What are your specs on the machine? How many drives, what speed?

Scratch disk settings?

The timeline won’t render unless you hit ‘Enter’.

BTW, on a faster machine with a good graphics card (Nvidia 7600 and above) you should be able to play SD DV footage at full quality without rendering. Just switch your preview window to full quality.

If you are playing non native footage, like Divx, etc., all bets are off.

Cheers,

Vince

[Joe Landau]

Hi Vince,
There seems to be something inherent in the project settings. I copied the project file and all the media to another computer, reassigned the pointers to the new media, allocated scratch files on other HDs, etc. erased the prefs file, and still, the same thing. Anything I do on the timeline requires about 10 seconds. This never happened to me before. The only thing I can think of is that I did a clean install of Windows XP and PP 2.0. ( even re-installed PP). Something is wired. I have used my current computer for many PP projects and this never happened before.

Joe

[Vince Becquiot]

Have you looked at the system performance window to see what’s happening at the time of the freeze ?

Vince

[Joe Landau]

I finally gave up figuring out what’s wrong. Instead, I ceated a new trimmed project. Now everything is working fine. I can’t figure out what was wrong and what went right but the main thing is that things work.
Thanks for your help.

Joe