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Time-line sequence with Nested seq.
Hello everyone.
The more I use Premiere Pro 2.0,
I find it to be an amazing software.
Especially I am totally blown
away by its audio handling capability.However, as my current project grows i
n its size and complexity,
I find Premiere Pro crashing regularly.I don’t think my H/W spec is bad.
-Dual Opteron 275 (4cores) 4Gb RAM,
-Windows XP SP2 (with 3g option enabled)
-3HDD (75,80,250GB noRAID)
-Nvidia Quadro 3450
(Running at 2048×1280 resolution)
-Realtek AC’97 (Running the latest driver)It crashes about 5 to 10 times a day but
as I am saving constantly it doesn’t bother
me so much.What really bothers me is that fact that
I am not able to render a time-line sequence
containing many nested sequences.
it would crash with no exception.So I open up the nested sequence
and ‘make movie’ from there, it’s fine.
Is this how all Premiere Pros behave.I know it’s a silly question, but
how can I make it not crash?Any tips on dealing with nested
sequences ?I would very much appreciate
any stability tips in general.Thank You.
(Well no matter what, I still love
Premiere Pro)-Jae
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2 Replies
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The easy answer is Premiere shouldn’t crash. Unfortunately, troubleshooting crashes is a science in itself.
The usuals suspects are other programs running at the same time. If haven’t done so already, go to start>run, type in msconfig, and go to the startup tab, uncheck EVERYTHING. Then do a restart.
That might mean disabling the antivirus (which in a way you shouldn’t have on a production computer), or other usually non important things.
If the crashes stop, then go back and recheck what you see as important one at the time.
If that doesn’t help, it could be just about anything else. Bad ram, that can be troubleshooted by removing them one at the time, or a hardware conflict. Even a firewire device.
From my own experience, and I do sometimes work with complex nested timelines as well, it pretty much never crashes.
BTW, what kind of footage and resolution are you working with ?
Vince
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Hello Vincent,
First of all, Thank you for your suggestions.Yes, I always keep my start-up items and running services to be
absolute minimal.The only things I have left running are
-Adobe Gamma
-Wacom Tablet,
-Nvidia Manager
-Nividia Taskbar controal PannelBut like you suggested, I will try how it runs
with all of them off (beside the Wacom,
I can’t remove this since I am working
99% time with Wacom. If Wacom is the
cause of the crash, I have a serious problem)Well I don’t work much with any kind of footages at all.
I do 3d animation work, and animatic-storyboard stage is
where I use premiere Pro.When I first started, I never thought my timeline sequence
would become as complex as what I am working on now,
But as the project grew, and as I put more details, now
I have like 6-7 video tracks and about 10+ audio tracks.Video is running at 960×540 with many different sources,
(PSD with alpha, JPG, BMP, AVI from my digital camera,
WAV , MP3 and MOV with animation codec…. so on)
and most of these are MOTION+OPACITY keyframed heavily.
(but no FX, not even a single clip)As you can see I am pushing PrmierePro to its limit,
and PremierePro has been working amazingly well.
I mean it’s like a RELTIME after effects !!!And my only complaint is the crashes I get from
nested timeline compositions.But like I said in my previous post,
even with regular crashes, I am happy with
this amazing PremierePro.
I guess I was just trying to be happier… 🙂Thanks again Vincent.
I’ll try your suggestions
and let you know how it went.Thanks.
-Jae
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