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PPro 1.5.1 Crashing playing back captured HDV clip, Help please!
Hello!
Im super new to editing HDV footage, i recently upgraded to premiere pro 1.5.1. We shot some stuff on a Sony HVR-A1U, and it looks awesome! I am running into a bigtime problem trying to edit this stuff though, i hope someone can steer me in the right direction.
I am capturing the HDV footage in premiere, and that all seems to go very well. However once the clip is imported and played back in the clip monitor, it comptletly crashes Premiere. To the point where i have to shut down the computer and reboot to do anything. Has anyone else had a similar problem to this?
I will provide more details if anyone needs it to help diagnose what the problem is, please just ask and i will post more info.
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6 Replies
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OK…I’m askin’
I need more info. Drive speed? Computer config? How full is the harddrive? Been defragged recently?…etc etc.
Any other info about the workflow you can give us? Does it always crash on the same clip? Can you try to re-capture if perhaps that one file is bad…etc.
TimK,
Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net -
Hmm more information:
Pentium 4HT 3.0 Ghz
1Gig Ram – I have another Gig of ram on order that is coming in today or tomorrow
SATA 200 GB on a RAID controller. This drive is brand new and empty. (premiere is installed on this volume).Windows XP is on a seperate drive.
I have no problem playing and editing regular DV footage. I am new to HD and have just started to work with it. Capturing the clip appears to go just fine, premiere transcodes everything pretty quickly too. Its just on playback where everything breaks down.
Basically i import the clip that i captured and let it play on the clip monitor. It runs ok for about 5 seconds, then the video jumps, then stops all the while the audio is still going. The Premiere just crashes, and i cant even close the window or anything.
Is it possible that i captured the clip on the wrong settings for he project and that is breaking it on playback?
The camera is a Sony HVR-A1U shooting in 1080i (i believe 29.97 FPS), I am using the project HD setting of 1080i at 1440 x ??? at 29.97.
Thats all i can think of at the moment… hopefully this helps? I might be reinstalling windows on a test hard drive that i have and loading ONLY premiere onto that drive and trying to get this to work again…. im out of ideas.
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Try instaling Premiere Pro on the C: Drive…where the operating system and most likely, all the rest of your software is…
It’s likely that the application needs to be accessed during playback and I’m wondering why, if you only have one drive (not a striped pair) why would you connect it to a RAID controller?
TimK,
Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net -
Yes i know it is a silly setup, but the way DELL configured their onboard SATA controller is that it HAS to be the primary drive with the OS. My computer was not configured that way so i had to buy a SATA controller, and since i was already buying one, why not get one with RAID ability for down the road.
I am going to reload windows on a spare drive that i have with just premiere loaded, to see if this takes care of the problem. It could be conflicting with another program.
I have been editing Regular DV footage with permiere on a non-OS volume without any problems so i am hesitant to believe that is the issue.
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[409industries] “I have been editing Regular DV footage with permiere on a non-OS volume without any problems so i am hesitant to believe that is the issue.”
DV doesn’t have near the data rate of CineFormHD (the filetype that Premiere 1.5.1 converts HDV to…), and the footage *belongs* on a non-OS drive…the software shouldn’t be…but particularly not on a single non-OS drive containing media files that’s near it’s throughput ceiling…I think the drive is choking. With DV, the data rate was probably low enough that the computer could still access the application when necessary.
TimK,
Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net -
I completly understand your thinking.
I did quite a bit of reading and since the cineform medium has to work on everything as its playing it makes sense that all the OS and program files need to be on the same volume. I guess its just too much for the system to handle, trying to move all that information across at near realtime speeds.
I will let you know how this turns out, but i think this is a good path to start on. I will just reinstall premiere on the OS volume and see if that helps.
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