[Pat Deneen]

Brian … Thanks for the help ..

I think that I agree with what you are telling me …The usb drive issue is what is probably making the system hang and freeze at random times … I am going to down load the endital program and see if that helps … what I do not understand is that once the program hangs up I have to uninstall and reinstall the program to get it working again …Again thanks for the help and leading me down the right path to figure out what is going on … Pat

[Pat Deneen]

Yes I have used the WD. It does work well until the video freezes and then I have to uninstall Premiere Pro and reinstall it again and then it works again for a random amount of time. Right now I am not using the WD and and it has not locked up for about 8 hours.

Pat

[Pat Deneen]

Again thank you for responding ….

I have both DV and HD video but after some reading it looked like HD would take to much resource to edit so I have imported all of the video as DV so I am working with only DV.

Yes the computer that I am using is a Tablet X61.

Yes the computer has an express card slot.

Thanks for your help.

Pat

[Pat Deneen]

Thank you for responding.

1. Yes I am using one disk that has everything on it.
2. Computer specs:

IBM think pad X61 (my son is on the US Ski Team and I travel with him all over the world and need a small laptop. I import all of the large video files on to a WD Passport 500gb hard drive then when I need a file I place it on the hard drive in the computer. The hard drive in the computer is a 320 GB 7200 rpm drive.

Intel Core Duo CPU
L2400 @ 1.66 Hz
980 MHz, 1.99 GB Ram

3. I reloaded the program last night and I have edited a 6 minute video and it is still up and running…It did tell me that my system resources were getting low so I saved and exported the work to an AVI file so that I could reload it without having all of the video that I used to create the clips on the desk top or in memory and it is still working this morning …

Am I pushing the computer? I thought that the program would run on this computer. I am using XP but will upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out in October….

Does this provide some better insight to my issue?