PP2 hangs up when loading heavy project

[Harm Millaard]

Add some memory.

[Rhewitt]

From the experience I’ve had with Premier 6.0 through to PPro 1.5, it isn’t really suitable for long form programmes.

You need more than 1GB of RAM for a starter, Premier Pro caches alot of data in your project along with the project file itself.

I made the switch to Avid Media Composer, currently running on an HP nw8000 laptop. I’m almost complete editing a feature 75-mins long at 1:1 resolution (source material DVCAM but titles, effects and graphics at 1:1) and I can scroll through the video end to end and play with no interruptions in playback. And that’s on a laptop with internal drives! It speaks volumes on the poor performance of PPro. It wasn’t a cheap move but I can now concentrate on editing rather than having to find yet another workaround for PPro.

[Serfior]

Yes, searching, reading and asking about this issue i think adding some memory will solve my problems.
Thanks.

[Hhv_pro]

Do not add (TOTAL) more then 2GB of memmory. From my experience, It may or may NOT help you as PPro always had issues with large/long projects. This was the main reason to use Avid.