[Jeff Hall]

Tim,

I’m using Dynamic Link to send the entire timeline which includes sequences and transitions. It can be as simple as 2 or 3 seq. with a couple of transistions. If I attempt to play back the entire Timeline in Encore it will crash at times. Having said this, I did discover that I was using a version of Mother Board Bios that was beta. It did cause memory test 2.11 to fail. I went back to current Bios and all Memory is now tesing ok. This may have been causing Blue Screen Crashes.I hav enot seen since.

I now see the headless process you had mentioned. So your suggesting that Encore is still dependent on Pre Pro even if running Encore on its own? Both applications are running around 500k of memory. Whats odd is if I run a rendered out version of the project without the Pre Pro Headless in the background Encore is now up to 1,500K. Almost 3 times what it normally runs with Pre Pro non rendered Dynamic Linked timeline.

Again thanks for helping me understand the interface between these two applications.

[Jeff Hall]

Tim,
I would agree with Larry Evans and thanks for your responce. The question is….whats the difference between Premiere Pro CS4 and Encore CS4 when playing back the same file structure. Encore seems to be very resource hungary even when open independently of Pre Pro CS4. In other words I only have Encore running but have the same issues. If Adobe is serious about supporting a seamless process moving back and forth between both applications using Dynamic Link this needs to work better.

Again Thanks

[Jeff Hall]

I to am having the same issue with Encore CS4 but have current drivers for my Display Card: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 Toxic ver. I’m opening Premiere Pro CS4 with the default presets of HDV Capture, HDV 1080i30 software only mode. I’m capturing from my Canon HV20 using firewire HDV out 1440 x 1080. All goes well during the editing process but when I Dynamic Link and playback in Encore CS4 I observe dropped frames or stop and starts in Encore timeline sequence. If I continue to play timeline Encore will hang and even crash. While still running Encore I can go back to Premiere Pro and play the timeline sequence with no issues. I will mention that I have the Matrox RT.X2 installed. But when starting a project I’m doing software only and disabling RT.X2 hardware playback. If I remove all effects in the timeline sequence and then Dynamic link to Encore the playback is normal with no effects. If I remove the Dynamic Linked timeline from Encore and export the Premiere Pro CS4 project using Adobe Media Encoder CS4 with a setting of MPEG 2 Blu-ray 1440 x 1080i 29.97 High Quality. I than import this MPEG2 back into Adobe Encore CS4 and it plays without dropping frames or hang-ups. I’ve even did a complete build on a separate drive without the Matrox RTX2 installed and only Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium and have same issue.

Thanks for any imput

Build

Case: Coolmaster-830
Op System: Vista Ultima 64 Bit
Edit Suite: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium Line Upgrade
Adobe Premiere Pro CS 4.0.1 update before installing RT.X2 Card and 4.0 tools
Performed updates on all Adobe Production Premium Products as of 01/12/2009
Matrox RTX2 4.0 Tools
Main Display: Dell 3007 30″
DVI Monitor: Dell 2408WFP 24″
MB: ASUS P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP LGA 775 Intel X38
Display Card: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 Toxic ver.
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