Why has CS4 turned a 30 second movie export until a 10 minute operation through ME?

[Vince Becquiot]

Yes, but I don’t see the trouble here. It actually allows you to export while you edit, wouldn’t that make it a time saver ?

Or just add to the queue as you edit and render while you sleep. Either way it sounds good to me.

I mean we are the ones who have been asking for a render queue for many many years after all…

Are you using new sequences for bloopers ?

[Todd Roush]

I dump straight from the timeline….. In CS3 dumping to “movie” would export a 1 minute “blooper” in far less time than it takes to open and send to ME.

***AND….If Adobe crashes which is often once or twice a day…..All those 120 images or 20 bloopers……..hours and hours of work….GONE FOREVER…..

So, are you saying that you’re one of the people who screwed the rest of us??? KIDDING! 🙂 BUT….THIS REALLY, REALLY SUCKS.

I can tell you that wedding videographers are switching to Vegas like rats leaving a sinking ship.

I can’t bring myself to do it because the interface is very foreign after a lifetime of Premiere but it is a necessity and I’ll soon be leaving with the rest if this is not remedied.

Adobe may be listening to the film makers but they’re not listening to small business who work in the every day world.

How can you edit video and not notice this? Are wedding and event videographers the only people who offer montages and blooper reels?

Brutal.

I can’t capture with it on one computer because it does not like my card….cant render on another because Me won’t open.

When I was a kid and starting out I could afford to lose months messing around….not anymore..

Most important feature I want from an NLE? I WANT IT TO WORK OUT OF THE BOX….. WORK OUT OF THE BOX…. ANYONE FROM ADOBE OUT THERE?

HP IS THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR COMPUTER….. I HAVE 2 DIFFERENT COMPUTERS AND YOUR NLE DOES NOT WORK ON EITHER….COMPLETELY.

Yes, ….I’m being forced to change NLEs and I have pissed off customers for months trying to get this stuff to work.

GREAT APPLE AD! I may finally give in.

Anybody know a computer that actually works with CS4…..COMPLETELY….OUT OF THE BOX?

Thanks.

Todd

Todd Roush
Dreamscape Digital Media
Panny DVX-100’s but changing so Sony or Cannon HDV soon.

[Todd Roush]

Sorry, I’m just really upset and I know I’m not the only one.

I worked on getting CS3 to work for a month or 2, then bought a new computer, then bought CS4…..then checked the web.

I guess it does work..????..everybody can’t be on the Adobe Payroll but it’s a very, very finnickey program.

Where’s the warning:
“Uninstall CS3 or this won’t work.”
“Run this cleaner or this won’t work.”
“Don’t use with HP laptops!” (one is a year old and one is brand new)

I should probably just buy a turnkey NLE and quit throwing good $$ after bad I suppose.

I just need to be editing…..not fixing computers and searching the web for answers…. again….leads to Apple I suppose.

Thanks and all the best,

A very distraught Todd

Todd Roush
Dreamscape Digital Media
Panny DVX-100’s but changing so Sony or Cannon HDV soon.

[Vince Becquiot]

Well it sounds like crashes is your problem here, not ME itself.

It takes me about 10 seconds more to do a single export through ME, which is the time it take ME to open, but I can also do 20 exports while I’m away.

I honestly rarely see a crash, and it’s usually because I’m running a side application Premiere doesn’t like.

But there are so many blends of hardware that it’s quite possible that you had a bad pick. What are your system specs, and even more important, how much RAM do you have ?

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Tim Kolb]

AND…what else is running on your machine for software?

If you open up the task manager and see the processes that are running, what’s there? Can you account for it all?

I’ve had to get rid of several QuickTime update modules as they spontaneously start and use 40% of the proc power whenever they feel like it, of course since it runs in the background, the user has no idea…

Panda Antivirus and CS4…no-go. If you have Panda, switch to McAfee. Don’t tell me about the pain as I have 6 seats of panda and now they are useless. If Panda is interfering with video editing software, they obviously are sticking their tentacles in somewhere where they don’t belong…

Have you checked to make sure you have the latest drivers for your display cards? I’ve noticed issues in Encore and Media Encoder that were solved on my Dell by simply getting my display card drivers up-to-date (NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M)

As far as what runs CS4 without a problem? My Dell M90 Laptop runs it fine after I got the system drivers up-to-date and ripped out the intrusive apps that were conflicting. It’s only got 2 GBs of RAM and it’s running WXP, so it gets a little grunty if you do much dynamic linking, but I don’t crash under general use…under Vista 64, most users I’ve encountered say that most of their general runnability improves markedly over WXP due to the increased available RAM. PPro and it’s predecessor Premiere have never been tolerant of two things…RAM problems (corruption or limitation) and media throughput problems (drives too slow or corrupt media), and I think the more you look around there aren’t many NLEs that are very tolerant of those conditions.

I happen to marvel at what the guys in Madison have done with Vegas and it is definitely the NLE on the market that can deliver more capability with less system grunt than anything else I’ve seen out there. If your systems are a little light to run CS4, I’d say that would be a good option.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Eric Addison]

“”Don’t use with HP laptops!” (one is a year old and one is brand new)”

Are you sure there isn’t something that is causing a possible conflict, Todd. I’ve got it running great on 2 HP machines, one of which is a laptop over a year old too…The first thing I did when I got my laptop with Vista 32 is remove all the extra stuff they put in there. The I turned off most of the little visual stuff that Vista does.

—Eric

[Todd Roush]

THANK YOU ….I had forgotten how awesome everyone is here at the COW.

I have to be honest, I really don’t how how to find out all these things. I’ve been editing issue free since…..the 90’s so I don’t know how to turn off such things. I’m not a computer tech anymore and don’t want to be. I used to build my own but I need to be editing full time.

Unfortunately it might not be good for business for Adobe to publish all the things it conflicts with because it’s A LOT. It should prompt for all these issues during install.

I did throw a new version of windows on the old system. The new system currently seems to do everything but capture.

I have a Dell on the way and I’ve had much better luck although HP believe it or not comes highly recommended by Videoguys.

Well, the experiment continues….Will I ultimately give in to Mac? We know most of their stuff does not conflict at least?

My new machine will be here soon.

Thanks again,

Todd

Todd Roush
Dreamscape Digital Media
Panny DVX-100’s but changing so Sony or Cannon HDV soon.

[Vince Becquiot]

Also keep in mind that ME is brand new and so with all new things…

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area