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Premiere CS3 crashes over and over AND OVER
I’m seriously starting to lose it here.
So here’s the deal… I’m editing an HDV project on Premiere CS3 with 7 hours of mpg video footage (about 80GB) which I’m storing on an external 1TB HDD connected via firewire. I’m also saving my project files and other related files on the external HDD. I’ve been working on this project for a solid week now and have a couple dozen sequences saved within the project. As I’ve gone along, CS3 has crashed more and more frequently. Now it’s to the point where I really can’t work on my project anymore. Most recently, all I have to do is open my project and scrub across the timeline for a crash to occur. What the heck is going on?!
I’m presently clearing out room on my main C drive to copy my project off the external HDD and onto C, and then I’ll see what happens. Maybe Premiere can’t handle dealing with projects originating from external HDDs?
Someone please help me from losing my mind!
System specs:
Dell w/ Core 2 Duo
Windows XP Media Center
SP2
2GB RAM
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6 Replies
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While I don’t know specifically what’s wrong – it could be a hundred different things, I’d first restore from a known good installation. I use Acronis True Image to Backup and Restore.
Also check your memory and swap file, free hard drive space plus I’d stop all EXTRA running programs.
Try AutoRuns from Microsoft to stop most programs from running in the background.
Good Luck.
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To add to what butterflyman said, if you are going to go internal, don’t put your data and projects on the C: drive, you are asking for more trouble, a minimum setup is one drive(C:) for OS and apps, a second large internal hard drive for video and misc video associated files.
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I used AutoRuns, moved my project to a secondary internal HDD, and reencoded my audio files and now everything is working fine. Thanks!
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Not for me. I am working on simple small footage nothing large. Last night I worked for about 4 hours and it crashed 4 times. My files are on secondary drive. Defragged HDrives. 2GB RAM. Still its crashes perodically.
XP PRO
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Hey guys, I’m having a problem with my premiere as well. Every time I open Premiere or After Effects, I get a stop error and my computer restarts. This usually happens before the interface even has a chance to load. Im running a Gateway with a 250g hd, 3gigs of ram, and amd duel core 3800 processors. I searched the error message and it said it was a memory problem, however I swapped out the ram and even bough new ram to no avail. I’ve also cleared my harddrive and reinstalled windows with the factory defaults, but that didn’t work either. I’m starting to think it could be because I have Media Center XP. Anybody have any suggestions?
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The current version of Premiere Pro CS3 seems to be quite buggy, especially running on my 64 bit machines. You can try to hide the display of thumbnails in the video layer of the main edit timeline. I did this and it crashes less often.
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