Charles Mcintyre
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A Faster Computer may be the ticket. Maximum PC frequently compares video encoding on different systems. With the Adobe products, the Intel Quad Core is the current king. It’s at least twice as fast as the processor we currently use, the Intel 3.2 Northwood. I don’t recall benchmarks on WMV specifically, but this encoding may/should benefit as well.
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We use Premiere Pro 1.5 with the Matrox RT.X100. Our experiences may be different, but this is what we have encountered:
Premiere creates “Conformed Audio Files”. If you have your scratch disks set to a drive that does not have adequate space to hold these files, Premiere will simply stop the conforming process without notification. When this happens, you will not be able to hear any/some audio.
I would first do a search in Windows for “Conformed”, and delete any files related to the project you are referring to.
Next, start a NEW Premiere project and set your scratch disks (Edit-Preferences-Scratch Disks) to a drive that has plenty of space. Conformed Audio Files can take up a huge amount of disk space. I just deleted a folder with 47 GIGs worth of Conformed Audio Files. That is not typical. Usually for us they are around 1-10 GIGs -
When there is a question of whether the resulting mp2 and wav file will fit on a DVD, I let Encore Encode the AVI “Automatically”.
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We use Premiere Pro 1.5 and the Project Manager is buggy. Recently we have been getting distorted sound from our “Trimmed” projects.
Avid tech support has noted that XP can not effectively keep track of more than 100,000 files. We get a lot of crashes when our hard drives get over 60% full. You might want to check your available hard drive space. Also check your scratch disks. If they are set to a disk that is too full, that could be causing your issues. Otherwise you may have to wait until version 2.0. A major thing I don’t like about Adobe is their aloofness and slo-mo speed when it comes to fixing known major problems. Contrast that to a company like Serious Magic that has downloadable fixes available within weeks.