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PPro Limitation, or what?
I have a project that contains 3 video streams, all about the same length. It’s a multi-camera project. After I pulled all three streams onto one sequence, I dragged that sequence onto a new one so I can do my multicam editing. All was well throughout this whole process. However, when i was done editing all my cuts (and saving the project), I wanted to add a single title overlay. So, I right-clicked in my project window and selected New -> Title and PPro crashed with a ‘general error’. No other information was given, just that.
So I tried again, reopening the project and add the title and the same thing happened. So, then I decided to open the project again and this time export the whole edited sequence into a new AVI. Once that was done, I created a NEW project, imported that AVI in it then tried to add a title and low and behold, it worked. So, why did PPro crash when I tried to add the title to the original project, onto the (heavily) edited sequence? Is PPro simply not able to handle the “weight”?
Footnote: I have another project that contains roughly 100 stills and some 150 titles, with cross fades between each and a music track. This project started crashing as I added more and more stills and titles to it. Again, I had to export the sequence with just the stills in it to a new AVI, then add titles to that, as opposed to straight on to the original sequence.
What drives me up the wall is that PPro will crash with a rather nondescript ‘general error’ message, so I can’t figure out *what* is causing the crashes. I’ve gone as far as completely rebuilding the system from scratch (reformat and all) and PPro continues to behave the same. I can create a new project and re-import everything anew, but it reaches a point where it just starts crashing again.
Good thing I’m a patient man.
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4 Replies
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It’s memory.
Premiere Pro uses a LOT of RAM…and doesn’t give it back willingly…certainly not when it’s handling a lot of stills for some reason.
Marisu Fronc posted a while back that she runs with the Task Manager open (Ctl+Alt+Delete) and the performance tab visible. You should see the page file grow to whatever the magic number is for your system…for me it’s when the page file has reached about 1.7 GB…it’s time to save and restart the app. She also said that when the page file is climbing, you can sometimes change focus by clicking on a window other than PPro (like the task manager you have open) and that will sometimes take the edge off…it has worked somewhat for me.
This is something that Adobe is aware of…not that it helps us today with this version of the software.
TimK,
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Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
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Ugh. I have 4GiB in the system and XP is running with the /3gb flag to allow for more memory usage, though I don’t know if Premiere is aware of that switch. Unfortunately, at this point, I think that’s all that we’re limited to. As many early adopters found out, Premier doesn’t do very well on a 64-bit OS such as Vista. 🙂
Thanks for the response Tim.
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Wait at least a year to switch to Vista so all the software vendors can get patches and codecs written. Switching from Win2k to XP took about the same time.
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You couldn’t pay me enough to use Vista at this time. Maybe in a year or two…
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