Brian Louis
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Why don’t you discribe your computer system specs and what kind of messages you are getting, and what Ppro is or isn’t doing
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The menu item is called “iLINK CONV” “ON”= HDV->DV CONV
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[pat deneen] “once the program hangs up I have to uninstall and reinstall the program to get it working again”
Have you run any error checking on the drive? it might be a good idea if you haven’t, do a scan and recovery for bad sectors, it can take a while if you have a large disk, sounds like something maybe corrupting your installation -
[Simon Davis] “I suspect the problem’s with PPro.”
There are very few problems running 9xxx series with Ppro, when you setup your dual monitors you are extending your desktop across both monitors? -
Its probably Xvid or Divx or something similar with MP3 audio, something is made as a final codec, not made to be edited
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[chuck paulus] “I downloaded some avi files”
What kind of AVI files? AVI is a generic term meaning Audio/Video Interleaved, some have AAC audio which doesn’t play too well in CS3
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With the specs you have you can do limited DV from a single drive, but it is easy to get into a fight with computer housekeeping functions, one reason I asked about the express card slot is that you can add an eSATA express card adapter and use a SATA drive in an eSATA enclosure and it gives basically the same performance as an extra internal sata drive and lessens the chance of a conflict, reason I mention conflict is I had a thinkpad R61 that I tried to use as a DAW but there was so much exteraneous stuff loaded it kept hanging the software, the R61 had an advantage that the harddrive was easily swapped and had both PCMCIA and Express card slots, I swapped the hard drive and just loaded the OS and drivers, and had no problem running Cubase and Audition on it, also loaded Ppro CS3, had no headaches, problem with running a external USB drive for source footage is that there could be a bunch of stuff running in the background that ramdomly polls the USB ports and that will screw up data transfers, and hang the machine also the same if running on one drive, one thing that might help since you are using XP is a program utility called “enditall” which allows you to shutdown most programs that run in the backgroun and cause you grief with editing. keep in mind that CS4 is a memory and processor hog and if you try to do too much at one time could hang the computer
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Are you trying to edit DV or HDV? Is that a tablet laptop? I believe it has a express card slot?
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[pat deneen] “I first thought it was that my disk was to full and now I make sure that I have at least 50GB free disk space all of the time.”
You should include your computer specs, also it sounds like you are just using one disk for the OS, apps, and video source material