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PPro CS3: Installed, initial thoughts, crash!
Even with the 1.1 update, it feels shaky as hell. Thankfully
it’s running on XP SP2 and SP3; Vista would be a grand
headache no doubt.My F9 title shortcut no longer works – on the Adobe Premiere
Pro £80/$150 editing keyboards we bought. Not impressed.The first crash occurred about an hour into the first project.
A regular PAL 25p SD edit. When the title creator did finally
appear it crashed when trying to scroll through the fonts
using the right-hand side menu.
– We got no chance to save the project before the crash.
– When it was possible to select different fonts in the
title window, with the title creator open, it was then
impossible to save it as a title file because – how silly us –
we should have named it before creating it.
The only thing it its favour is that it is microscopically
easier to unlink all those dreadful sticky panels.If Adobe want this to rival FCP, Avid, etc. they’ve got
a lot of work to do before shoveling out this rubbish
with so many critical flaws.We haven’t tried HD yet. I haven’t got the nerve.
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PPro 1.5.1 was/is a the greatest little NLE out there.
Considering Adobe (finally) cocked up Cool Edit Pro (we always
knew they would) and nothing above ver.1.5.1 is
worth our time, how long do we have to wait before
Adobe have their act together as well as they did circa
ver. 1.5.1 of things?Any other catastrophic PPro gems we should be preparing
ourselves for?D.
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14 Replies
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I find CS3.1.1 very solid – as good as any version I have worked on. The titler has changed a bit from 1.5, but it’s probably for the better. Yes, you now have to name your titles before creating them. Note the very handy “make new title based on current title” button. “CTRL-T” now opens the titler instead of F9, but you could change it back with the keyboard customization settings.
I personally haven’t seen the instabilities you are experiencing. Could it be that you are still getting used to the new features? Maybe you have a corrupt font file.
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The little things we’ll overcome eventually. Crashing
without a last minute option to save, though, is unforgivable
Final Cut Pro territory.D.
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Sometimes Premiere will give you the option to save, sometimes not… just like FCP. Methinks you may have system issues. It is not normal to crash frequently. Of course, Premiere has it’s limits, and if you are editing large projects with many timelines open, or have many applications open simultaneously, or are dealing with odd file formats and settings, this will affect the stability. But I have never seen Premiere crash when I was browsing fonts in the titler.
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I’ve never seen PPro crash whilst using the title creator
either, then again, I’ve never used CS3 before. You
seem to think that CS3 is faultless. Not an Adobe
sales rep by any chance? 😉D.
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No, but I do work on other peoples’ systems, and I know there can be configuration issues. Apple has an advantage here because they have a closed system, and they don’t allow people to build their own workstations. Avid is also very strict with system specs (at least on their higher end systems), and Matrox (I have an Axio card) also is strict on certifiable configurations. This is frustrating for people who insist on beating their own path, but makes for a more reliable system.
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The machines we’ve installed/tested it on are up to scratch
(ram, cards, and cpu) edit suites. The problem we have,
is that, we’re hoping to integrate our new media and TV/film
workflow soons with Flash On, AIR, etc. This will happen
once we’ve purchased/built a new HD suite w/Xena hardware.
I was hoping to have PPro3 at its heart, but experiences
thus far aren’t favourable for the ol’girl.D.
x-gf.com
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I have had this issue of PPro 2.0 crashing when using the Titler. In my case it is a conflict when I have an external viewing monitor in use via fire wire. Every time I have the fire wire external viewing monitor on at the same time I start up the titler it will crash. This happens on all our machines at work. Our IT contacted adobe and was told it is a slight problem they have heard of but the only solution was to turn off the fire wire monitoring before using titler.
hope this helps
Tthe real fun begins when the program loads
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That’s great, isn’t it – ‘[a] slight problem. Turn off your
reference monitor’. It’s not like the reference monitor
is ever doing anything important.D.
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Hi,
I got exactly the same problem with Premiere CS3. When browsing fonts when editing titles the program crashes !!!
Can anybody help? Tx in advance.
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I think there are issues with the titler locking up with some fonts. The reason I am having good luck is that I haven’t installed many additional fonts above and beyond the Win XP stock set.
Be sure you have upgraded to 3.2, because I think I read somewhere that there was some kind of fix for this problem in this update.
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