[Mike Prindle]

Jeff, have you tried these? Adobe AE CS3 Freeze issues:

For Macs: https://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402245.html

Windows XP: https://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402248.html

Good luck
Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Thanks, Jon! Shortly after submitting this post, it occurred to me to maybe try what your second suggestion was (CS4). But then I thought I’d wait to hear from the forum first. I don’t know Premiere well enough to know whether or not the media/footage becomes tainted with the 24fps settings upon placing it in the timeline. Obviously not — so thanks for your quick reply. Much less work with paste-copy.

Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Thanks, Vince!!

Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Bob, I found this in the CS4 guide (likely most veteran users already know this). This suggests that more cores and more memory helps:

“Optimize rendering for available memory

By default, Adobe Premiere Pro renders video using the maximum number of available processors, up to 16. However, some sequences, such as those containing high-resolution source video or still images, require large amounts of memory for the simultaneous rendering of multiple frames. These can force Adobe Premiere Pro to abort rendering and to give a Low Memory Warning alert. In these cases, you can maximize the available memory by changing the rendering optimization preference from Performance to Memory. Change this preference back to Performance when rendering no longer requires memory optimization.

1. Select Edit > Preferences, and select General in the Preferences dialog box.

2. In the drop-down menu next to Optimize Rendering For, select Memory.

3. Click OK, close Adobe Premiere Pro, and reopen the project for the new preference to take effect.”

Hope this helps,
Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Bob,
It’s just my opinion, but from my experience I think that reliable, consistent video work needs around 2.5GHz (3.0+ is safer) — either Duo or Quad – especially if you author Blu-Ray; 7200rpm internal HDDs (externals seem to bottleneck & stifle thru-put); 6-8GB DDR3 (12 is better but expensive) depending on how many apps run simultaneously; and, hi-end graphics card w/at least 512 (I’m also a fan of Sli). Currently, I think my notebook is insufficient for video.

Some may feel this is overkill, but I reason that eventually the software developers will bring everything up to x64 – soon I hope. I like Vista only because I have been lucky with my system in that I haven’t experienced the Vista problems that many others have cited. Rumors are that Win-7 is faster and more efficient…… we’ll see?

Assuming someone wants to spend the money — I still defend getting the big guns early because eventually everything will catch up; then I don’t have to drop another $4K a year later. Wow, Bob you got a good price on that ASUS!! Sorry things are dragging out.

Bob, in answer to your question about x64 and smaller programs, Vince answered the question for me — DRIVERS!; I assume smaller companies are hesitant to spend the money to develop x64/multi-thread software until it’s absolutely necessary. So sometimes it’s a trade-off – x86 vs x64 – depending on what’s more important to you.

If people strongly disagree with my position, please reply – since I could be wrong. I’m always willing learn from others’ experiences.

Regards,
Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Hi Bob,
I have a laptop with a Q6600, 4GB ram, nVidia 8800m gtx; I currently use Ppro CS4 and in my opinion, it runs pretty fast with both render and Encore DVD encoding and burn – 2hr movie takes about 40-50 minutes from timeline to DVD finish; that’s pretty fast to me, but maybe too slow for other faster, more capable rigs (hi-end desktops).

I read that CS4 is written to utilize multi-threading for Quad chips. I am certain that Photoshop is multi, but not certain about Ppro or AE in CS4. Also not sure if CS2 use multi-thread in their software, another thread claims that CS3 is multi.

I’ve had only very minor problems with x64 — mostly with smaller applications. But the big ones – Adobe, Corel, etc – seem to be fine. I defer a more technical opinion to the seasoned experts.

Many say its not worth buying multi-cores until the software developers catch-up writing code for multi-threads. But I bought my notebook last year with Quad and x64 O/S — with the idea that eventually the software would catch up – even if before that, two or three cores sit at idle. That way, when the software accommodates, I don’t have to trade up to quads and x64 since I already have it. Just one opinion that worked for me.

There are several other related thread here you may want to check out.

Good luck,
Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Thanks, Ben!

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[Mike Prindle]

Hi Todd,
I am new to the AE product – busy reading books, viewing tutorials, and playing with the basics. Yes, I’m still not too familiar with the technical terminolgy. I am trying to wrap my mind around the seeming immensity of AE and all its functions and features. I’m trying to understand the how’s and why’s of the functions instead of merely memorizing routines.

Thanks for pointing out the distinct (presets vs effects), and thanks for the references to the sites. I remain amazed at the capacity and potential of this product.

Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Hi Brian,

Thanks again for your help, along with the others who replied. You were right, Brian, I was looking in wrong places for dynamic link and the audio did get attached automatically in DynLink. I tried your suggestion and it worked; the movie looks great – though I still have some tweaking to do on the timeline to polish it; I wrote to a DVD +RW so I can re-write when minor corrections are made until final version is ready. Your mentioning of your prior use of a 64-bit system gave me hope before trying this. I too have a x64 and sometimes certain applications have difficulties with 64-bit systems. But thanks, Brian, all went well! MPEG2-DVD format looks good on DVD.

Hi Larry,
I too found that select panel on the top menu bar of PPro. I think dynamic link works from either side — export from Ppro, or import from Encore, so Brian was correct. This time, I rendered in Ppro, then did a dynamic link export to Encore from the Ppro timeline (I think, which encodes only once). But mine went pretty fast with no ‘choking’ at any stage. I think the encoding using the dynamic betw Ppro and Encore to final completion of DVD write took about 30 minutes. Not sure if that is fast or slow since I don’t know what other people have done. I have a notebook I use, but it’s a gamer with x64 Vista & a desktop (not mobile) Intel Quad Core in it. I’ve had good luck so far with CS4 appls on my x64 since CS4 is supposedly multi-threaded for multi cores. I suppose that makes some difference in throughput. But I’m not a techie.

Thanks to all for your help,
Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Thanks for the helpful replies. Two more quick questions. I researched the board before posting and found a post citing a problem when audio input/encode when Encore uses MPEG2-DVD format, since the audio file if created separate from MPEG2 file using mpeg-dvd. Is there a best procedure for handling the audio file to encore when opting for mpeg-dvd?

Secondly, dynamic link was mentioned. But my CS4 PremPro does not show a ‘link-to-encore’ option on the Export popout — only Media. And that selection takes me to Adobe Media encoder directly. Can’t figure out dynamic link.

Thanks again,
Mike

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