What is the file sizes of some of your projects in Premiere Pro 2

[Paul King]

File size sounds correct. How is it? Is it stable? Fast? Responsive?

Thanks

Paul

[Steven L. gotz]

File sizes depend on so many things. The number of clips. The number of cuts, the effects applied. All of that. It is possible to have a 5 minute project that runs 100MB. Or a two hour project at 10MB.

Steven
http://www.stevengotz.com

[L. D. james]

Thanks, Paul, for the input. It’s kind of slow and sluggish in responding when bringing Premiere into focus after using some other application. However, while it’s focus, it’s outstanding.

What’s the size of some of your project files? I recall in previous versions the file used to be small enough to edit in notepad.

— L. James

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[Paul King]

Yes true you could open project files in notepad with v6.5.
It’s not recommended to run other apps while Premiere is open. This is a bit different in v2.0.

Thanks

Paul

[L. D. james]

Hi, Paul. Thanks for the input in this thread. I

[Wil Renczes]

Actually, the sluggishness you refer to between switching apps is probably because Premiere Pro (esp. 2.0) tries to play nice with memory with other apps. Premiere maintains a memory cache of video frames (for example, when you’re scrubbing over un-rendered material – it takes a bit to composite the image, but the app hangs onto the frame in case you might scrub back over it again), and this cache is flushed when Premiere loses application focus. It also tells any plugins responsible for importing media to ‘let go’ of their files so that they’ll be accessible (ie writeable) to other applications. So the lag you’re experiencing is likely when Premiere comes back to focus, it needs to re-open various media files & possibly re-render certain frames (thumbnails, or if your CTI is parked over an area that needs rendering, etc).

If you have your thumbnails turned on for all frames, try either setting it to tail/end or disabling them entirely – see if that makes an impact at all on the lag time you’re describing…

[L. D. james]

Wil, thanks for your contribution to this thread.

I wasn’t complaining about the sluggish action, I just made a reference. I had already noticed the components about the frame display and had incidentally already made the adjustments you referenced which eased the sluggishness. I only referenced it as a response to Paul’s question.

If it sounded like I had a tone of aggravation, it is in reference to Premiere stopping the preview when it looses focus. I’m glad export to tape doesn’t stop. That’s my only option at this time to conveniently use that feature, as I can’t loose all computer quality time when reviewing my work.

I’m actually hoping that others would see my point and make a statement so that the powers-that-be will consider fixing this problem. There shouldn’t be any need to consider it, if no one would appreciate it.

It could be described as anxious, but I don’t like to be idle when at the console. I type over a hundred words a minute. I like reviewing this forum as well as others when I’m at the console. It would be convenient if I could leave the preview running while I read and reply to your message.

I applaud Adobe for the efficiency I see built into Premiere Pro 2.0. It renders very fast. The Real Time Preview looks excellent on either my second computer monitor or the composite monitor passed through the firewire (and both). I remember when you had to render to get firewire output.

I appreciate the possible fact that they may try to shield the user from having a poor preview by canceling the preview if it looses focus. But they don’t have to do that. It would be better if they included a user preferred option in this regard under the playback settings. Let their “Disable Video Output when Premiere Pro is in the background.” refer to canceling or pausing playback when lost of focus or Premiere Pro is in the background.

I wish one of their reps would pop in and apologize for the oversight and mention that it will be fixed in the first patch/update release.

I did the same type of plea for the inefficient use of resource that had all the Windows/panels locked into the Workspace. I thought they should be available in their own window so that you could use your desktop and secondary monitors more efficiently. Many of the Premiere users didn’t want to make waves with the developers and explained that all you had to do was expand your workspace over to the secondary monitor. I’m sure they are enjoying the ability to undock the panels and convenienty place them anywere they pleased in their system’s environment. That was an unspeakable waste of desktop real estate. I’m glad they fixed that. Now I’m hoping for a address of this very important oversight.

By the way, just curious, I’d be glad to know the size of somebody else project file besides mine. Could you check the size of your project file and let me know? Maybe of the current project you’re working with or maybe the last project you completed? Thanks in advance for any consideration to make a reference.

— L. James

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