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Premiere Keeps Crashing, Etc.
I am Mac based working on a half hour dramatic program shot on DSLR’s using Plural Eyes. Everything is OK until I ad filters, then Premiere starts crashing more & more. It crashes when I render.
My sound was messed up but I think I fixed part of the problem by throwing out the “Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files” folder. I’m outputting a movie as I write this.
I think I have a powerful system. I have the source files on a software FW 800 RAID drive I set up using the disk utility. I had the premiere file on a separate FW 800 RAID but now everything is on the software RAID.
When it crashes it opens a copy of the previous file, I am working on a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy…..
Any suggestions?
Thanks
– MacPro5,1 2.4 GHz, Memory: 32 GB
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5 Replies
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fw 800 software raid?
you have 2 attached fw800 external drives as a RAID zero?
that could be the problem.
if you can, try a software RAID zero with 2 internal sata 7,200 rpm or faster drives.
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I definitely understand the need to work off of external devices when using Mac, but is there too many files that you can’t temporarily have a copy of them on your computer to use?
I presently use a SSD, a RAID of Hybrids, and SATA drives. I never seem to have any problems on any of them when editing. I also have some external drives that I can edit from, and they are slow. However, I am on a PC.
32GB of RAM should be more than sufficient, and 2.4GHz should get you by. But what about your graphics card? That could come into play depending on how many filters and how complex they are. If you’re using ATI, you’re not using hardware MPE, which can obviously be done without, but I would suggest against it for serious projects.
Lastly, what kind of DSLR footage are you working with. This could have something to do with it as well.
My suggestion, for now, output the file first without filters (assuming it doesn’t crash). Then bring it back in and use filters. If you didn’t want to lose quality you could use a codec that can be uncompressed, but you will output a HUGE file, and it would take forever to do.
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I am using footage from a Canon T2i. I would like to investigate a workflow where I can ad the filters last. Maybe a proxie based workflow…
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Which filters are you applying. You must have some intense stuff going on for PP to crash even during rendering.
This may help with give some insight on proxy editing: https://www.homedvd.ca/2010/12/19/offline-hd-proxy-editing-at-work/
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I’m actually out of town away from my project. I think I’m using; auto color, contrast, & unsharp mask… – Thanks
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