PPro 1 can’t get past CompilerVfw.prm during startup
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Hi! My Premiere Pro (1) will not start! The intro screen shows, and I can read that the startup sequence goes past CompilerQuicktime.prm, but on CompilerVfw.prm it freezes. In Task manager Premiere does not appear as a running application yet, but as a process using 99% of all resources, which I must kill since CPU usage is stuck at 100%!
My computer is a Dell laptop Inspirion 8600 1.7 gHz CPU with 512 Mb RAM. It has an ATI 9600 chip, and I believe this was Dell’s first hi-res laptop with 1620×1200 pixels. It performs excellent otherwise, also with my other Adobe applications Audition and After Effects. DV videofiles plays fine by themselves on the desktop.
I have done a reinstall, only with the same result. I Also did a search in this forum and found nothing on this ‘compiler’, which worries me, since it may mean there is no easy fix for this?
Any help appreciated!
What is the Hard disk setup on your laptop?
I suspect that you have only one HD whereas at a minimum a second one, dedicated to your A/V data, is required.
Adobe says this: “Dedicated 7,200RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD” …is a requirement for PRO 2. It’s rather confusing; if taken literally it means you can just forget about editing video with Premiere on any laptop. At least I have yet to see any normal laptop that is sold with more than one HD. I can’t believe this is actually true, since I and many others have seen video run just fine from the system disk on a laptop. For best performance, the above is certainly good advice though; I have edited video on stationary PCs in ten years and know this very well.
Anyway:
– I am using PRO v1, not 2
– My laptop actually has a firewire disk attached. Guess what’s on it – videofiles perhaps?
– How can I tell Premiere which drive is dedicated to for DV editing when I can’t even get the program to start?
Assuming 1.0 has worked on your laptop, try deleting Pro’s Preference file.
C:\Documents and settings\mike\Application Data\Adobe\Premiere Pro\1.0\Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs
or try reinstalling Pro.
1.0 was pretty buggy.
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