[Jerry Cast]

Leo,

It’s gotta be the Vista use of memory over Win XP Pro then. That’s what I’m starting to see with all these posts from everyone.

Thanks.
Jerry

Jerry
http://www.jerrycastaldo.com

[Jerry Cast]

Thanks Eric,

Hey, I “don’t” see the 3 GB switch, good news I guess as this should help it sounds like.

Before I do the edit, here is my current boot.ini line:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

Your suggestion to add:

/3GB /USERVA=2500

is understood, but do I leave the “usepmtimer” word above before or after it?

Jerry
http://www.jerrycastaldo.com

[Jerry Cast]

Wow, ok, thanks.

I do have about 5 timelines tabbed above, which have been open. I will keep them closed.

My bins are displayed as folder icons, whithout showing the contents, so I guess that means they are closed?

I did recently change the preferences to “memory” from performance, and I did see an improvement in rendering.

The only thing I don’t understand is the “inserting the 3 GB switch in the boot.ini file. How do I do that or check that the video guys who built the machine and installed CS3 didn’t already do that. They claim to know every optimization trick.

Thanks again.
Jerry

Jerry
http://www.jerrycastaldo.com

[Jerry Cast]

Thanks Leo,

ADK Designs of Kentucky built me a Video/audio only machine with CS3, Quad Core, 4 gigs mem, Win XP Pro, and it’s been the most stable system I’ve ever had. I’m running CS3.

It wasn’t a matte of saving money either, as this system (after bargaining) still cost me $2800. I purchased the CS3 suite separately on my own.

I also have a Quad core laptop running CS3, but that has other “day to day” programs on it, so it’s just a backup to work in a pinch.
I’ve even built another daily use desktop that’s also Quad core and loaded with programs and internet access and I’ve also gotten CS3 to work on it, but haven’t really stressed it out to see about crashing.

It’s just the occassional crashes and memory warnings that are annoying, still, I’m able to work as long as I’m savings projects every few minutes and backing up well.

Sounds like going to Vista, going to 8 gigs of RAM, and possibly updating my 512 meg video card to 1 gig may all help, as well as the usual things like keeping the drive defragged and OS on one drive, files on another, and rendering to yet another.

Oh, going to CS4 may help too, huh?

Thanks again.
Jerry

Jerry
http://www.jerrycastaldo.com

[Jerry Cast]

Thanks everyone,

Again, for those of you who missed it in my original post, I “do” have a dedicated machine, as well as a Quad Core Laptop.

So, if I’m understanding this, if I upgrade to Vista, add more than my 4 gigs of memory, upgrade from CS3 to CS4…I should not have any more problems.

Once in a while Premier freezes, but if I’m hearing correctly, this will “never” happen upgrading to the above specs? Sounds promising.

The Matrox card is for power users who need to view realtime effects without rendering so that they can make quick, artistic choices I guess. I don’t really need it (or would go with them a 3rd time).

Thanks again.
Jerry
https://www.jerrycastaldo.com

[Jerry Cast]

Thanks Joe,

So, I’m using CS3, does that version also not recompress before encoding to Encore?

So, I “should” export from Premier as an uncommpressed and THEN bring it into Encore as an asset? This will be better than just exporting as a Microsoft DV AVI? Is there a noticable difference in the final video if you were to A/B it?

Frame serving I’ve never heard and will Google it.

You say to encode video to MPEG-2 from Premier, but does that mean it’ll already be ready for Encore then? Sort of like using the Export to Encore? Is exporting uncommpressed to using this method better? Pro’s con’s?

Thanks a lot.

Jerry
https://www.jerrycastaldo.com

[Jerry Cast]

Thanks Tim,

I just posted (vented) a “Will video editing on a PC every truly work” question in response to your suggestion.

Maybe you can answer the couple of questions I posted there.

I’m using CS3, but I’m sure you are correct regardless of the version.

When you say I can look at the paging file, do you mean I should check it’s size when I get this message, so that in the future I can look at it and determine if I’m getting close?

Also, when you say “click outside of Prem”, do you mean close it and reopen it? Would rebooting (hard boot?) help?

Thanks.

Jerry

[Jerry Cast]

No Jon, no special codecs.

Thanks, I’ll keep poking around.

Jerry
https://www.jerrycastaldo.com

[Jerry Cast]

Hi Tim,

Ok, thanks.

The one mp3 file that wouldn’t allow me to choose by alt right clicking and can choose only by dragging around it, seemed buggy, so I brought it in again to a new track (I know, I shouldn’t probably use the same one right?) and then I deleted the first one, and the project is a bit better so far.

Thanks again and I’ll try to find another version of the song so I can import a fresh mp3 file.

Jerry

[Jerry Cast]

Oh, I’ll also take your suggestion and try to encode outside of Encore by using the Media Encoder to dvd mpeg2.

So, I assume the mpeg2 is the same type of file that Encore produces during transcoding.

Got, I”m slowly learning.

Thanks.