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Will Not Render Completely, Help Please!
Hi, and Thank You to anyone who can help me out here.
I am using the Trial Version of PPro 1.5 and have a system that comfortably meets the specs, but after spending quite a few hours putting together a 59 second animation using 3 tracks of stills (ranging from 1/2 a second to 2 seconds in duration) imported from Photoshop Elements (saved as photoshop files) and placed on a .avi background track (a back to back repeated clip 4 seconds in duration) and with 2 audio tracks… I cannot get this thing to !@#$%&ing Render or Export as a movie completely.
When I try to render, it will render about 29% and then quit and then screw up the computers operation so much I need to reboot. Same with exporting as a movie, except it gets further in rendering to a frustrating 92% (the percentages are not always the same, random).
Also, in the monitor, it will not always preview properly (hangs and studders) and it is set on draft or auto for quality.
I have tried different combinations of tracks, temporarily removing one at a time (music, background, characters stills) but to no avail, no combination of this or reloading the program or restoring the computer will get this to render…
Is there some fine print somewhere that says not to actually “USE” the Trial Version, somewhere does it say that it is only limited to being looked at… “OOooo look at all the pretty buttons… I wonder what they do?”…
or am I overlooking something obvious (I am a newbie with these “PRO” level editors)?
or is this program not suited for the kind of editing I want to do? I plan on using plenty of stills, motion DV and multi track audio in my documentary?
OR is this program CRAP! Sorry, I am frustrated with this and not impressed with my Trial of PPro…
Please, if anyone has any suggestions?… I would like to get my project finished…
Thanks For Your Time!
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5 Replies
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Does it stop at the same place every time?
I’m not tuned in to what the limitations of the tryout version are…
You are renderng/exporting to a drive with adequate space?
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Perhaps couple of unnecessary questions, what size are your stills? Audio file format? Processor and Ram?
Your project seems to be easy task for the software, but something in your material or computer makes it too difficult. -
Thanks for the replies.
I have 93GB available the hard drive I am exporting to via firewire and 43GB on my internal which the program runs from. I have 1.5GB memory and a 2.7Mhz P4 processor and an ATI 9600 card (not that powerful but it has been handling plenty of other graphics intensive programs).
It doesn’t stop exactly in the same place evertime… the “render workspace” makes it to somewhere between 29% and 43% of the sequence, and the export movie makes it further to 87% to 94%.
The Audio is a WMA file and the stills are Photoshop .PSD files BUT, I have been wondering if they are too big for the program or my computer to process… they saved in photoshop as large as 12MB, not sure why (I am going to see about reducing file size without reducing quality), I cut most of the picture away and have just a composite “puppet” made up of 2 to 8 layers depending on the still… I took photos and in Photoshop cut parts of bodies out, arms, legs, heads, clothes ect and then assembled them as layers to create a puppet that could then be manipulated and then saved in each different pose… but I notice now these puppets are 1-12MB in file size…
Does PPro have problem working with a series of large stills?
Would it make a difference to save in a different format? My thinking was to use Adobe format throughout.
Being new to PPro, I have checked out the forums and tutorials but haven’t found anything that elaborates on importing and using stills and what problems may occur if you don’t do it a certain way… I would be happy to write one if I could ever figure it out myself…
….more importing of wisdom from longtime users would be great! Thanks for your Help!
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Adobe After Effects is better software for layering. It doesn’t care too much about large files. And in puppet type of animation it’s ability to parent layers is also helpful.
You can of course make “layering” type of work in PPro as well, but if you don’t “zoom”
in your photos then it is unnecessary to make them bigger (in pixels) than your composition in PPro. -
Thanks So Much for your input Pena… I will give After Affects a try as well… I have heard that of the Adobe software that it is the one that is most useful… seems many use that in combination with Final Cut Pro but I realize it becomes a Ford vs Chevy issue… anyway, I am grateful there are these try out versions available…
For now I haver to prepare for Hurricane Rita (in the Florida Keys)… so no movie making for a couple days… wish us luck…Thanks Again!
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