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Pro 2 SLOWS to CRAWL when timeline grows (Ripple Edit and Extract tools)
This is a very serious problem that I’ve had in Pro 2, as well as in Pro 1.5 — but not in Pro 1. It’s forcing me and my collaborator to all go back to Pro 1!
If the timeline is short — say 10 minutes — then all is fine.
But all hell breaks loose with longer timelines (say, over 30 minutes) 😡
The Extract tool (set IN, set OUT and extract) starts taking absurd amounts of times. I’ve measured over 20 seconds!! During this time the CPU is spinning around at 100% !! Doing what?!?
Doing a Ripple Edit operation near the end of the timeline is fine, even with longer timelines. But if that operation is performed on a clip earlier in time, it takes progressively longer — as if “weighed down” by the number of clips after it :O)
Moving tracks with the Track Select tool has the same behavior: fine if near the timeline’s end; otherwise, painfully slow.
Even more puzzling, the UNDO operations take the same absurdly long times as the original operations!!!
Memory is not an issue: the “Commit Charge” in the Windows Task Manager is showing around 600 MB, and I have 1 GB.
Any help/insight is greatly appreciated!
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4 Replies
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I think you may have explained it in the middle of your post, CPU at 100 %;)
But that could also be something else, what CPU(s) are you on (Speed, buffer, etc.)
V.
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I have seen this happen when the graphics card is on the lower side. What is the model of your grapghics card?
Aanarav Sareen
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Thanks for your replies.
>what CPU(s) are you on (Speed, buffer, etc.)
I’m not sure what that means…
My computer is not top-of-the-line but, hey, we’re just talking about ripple edits and extract operations!
I have a 2 GHz Pentium 4, with 1 GB of memory.
The graphics card is a 64 MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 AGP. I upgraded the driver when I switched to Pro from Premiere 6 a few months ago.
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Melissa,
Your CPU at 2GHz should be fine for simple standard def edits. A few other things to consider: Is Premiere really the only thing running at the time of the edit ?
Antivirus can slow things down quite a bet.
Also, if you are editing clips that already have been rendered, Premiere tends to freeze a bit on some computers. But you no longer lose most of your rendered files after that edit, as it used to be in previous versions, which I’m guessing, means quite a bet more backgroung work.
The last things that it doesn’t deal with very well is high rez images, I mean above 2500px x…
Vince
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