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Premiere and AE help
Let me start by saying, I am a total newbie. And apoligize if this is not posted in the right place. I am a hobbist just getting started in digital video editing and recording. For the most part, I do live events where a live feed is taken from my camera. I am not responsible for recording or editing, just capture. Recently, I purchased a JVC GY HD200 with a FireStore 100GB drive. Thus far, I have been sticking to SD because of my lack of processing power. However, I have built a system (8-core, 12 gb RAM, 2 TB Storage) that I feel should handle either format with no problem.
2 x Intel Xeon E5410 Harpertown 2.33GHz LGA 771 80W Quad-Core Processor
SUPERMICRO MBD-X7DAL-E+O Dual LGA 771 Intel 5000X ATX Server Motherboard
6 x Transcend 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) ECC Fully Buffered Server Memory
PNY Quadro FX1700 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Workstation Video Card
4 x WD Caviar 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
SUPERMICRO CSE-743i-645B Black 4U Rackmount Case
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit English
Fire Wire Card
Pioneer Dual Layer DVD Burner
I started with this video card:
GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
but once I installed Adobe CS3 Productions Premium, I was experiencing several crashes. So, I upgraded to the Quadro.
Not as many crashes, but still not as stable as I thought it would be.I thought that with this type of machine, I would be able to edit in real-time (or close to it). Even working in Standard Def, this is not the case.
But this is not the real problem. I am expericing fequent crashes in Premiere at totally random times. Sometime the program will just close, sometimes the program saves before closing and other times the entire time line goes black with a few select clips still visiable.
Does anyone have any insite on these problems? Could it be beacuse of Quicktime 7.4? I recently upgraded to 7.5 and still the same issues. The reason I think Quicktime, when I watch a quicktime video inside of a web browser, the enitre control bar is black? Do I need even a beefier graphics card?
Although, most of my issues are related to Premiere, After Effects is not as stable or fast as I feel it should be. I understand that it will slow down with the more motion layers and particle systems, But, I get hang ups on even some small projects. Any help?
Additionally, how much performence will I gain by turning two of these drives into a RAID array? Does anybody have a link for a good walk through on how to do this?
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I’m certainly not an expert, but here are a couple of suggestions.
1. Make sure things are not overheating in your computer.
You’ve got a lot of hard drives going all at the same time.2. I’d optimize the computer for video.
I’ve got a feeling, you’ve got all sorts of programs running in the background.
Google – Autoruns for Windows – and give it a try. -
You have a good system, although I would have preferred a Seaburg instead of a Greencreek chipset with the Harpertown. For instance the X7DWA-N.
The crashes should not occur on such a system, so there must be something else in your installed software that causes these crashes. I assume you have checked all your BIOS settings and these do not cause problems.
Have you checked your event manager logs? Anything strange?
Can you post info from Process Explorer on what is running?
Setting up a Raid array should be done from the BIOS.
Harm Millaard
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