[Paul]

I’ve found there are many things that can slow you down. Are your movie files on the same drive as the application? If so move the movie files to another internal drive. You probably have 7200rpm internal drives… I don’t know how much this helps but I have 10K rpm scsi drives and that seems to help. More RAM definitely.. I know photoshop is happy with 2 GB but if you open more than one application at a time when PP 2.0 is open then could cause a huge slow down. Think about turning off the option under playback that plays back audio and video on the desktop while playing on an extenal DV device.. pick one and turn off the other to see if that speeds up rendering. Is your video card PCI, AGP or PCIe ? I’m guessing agp.. is it a high end card? Do you have the latest drivers from ATI or nVidia? If not go there and get them now. Seriously think about upgrading the video card. Adobe applications love RAM…. they eat it like cookies…

Anyway, I’m sure a couple of these things would speed things up in lieu of getting a new machine…. also please understand they are general recommendations and come from my experience and what I have learned from the cow and working with this stuff for the past few years.

One last thing.. think about backing all of your stuff up on DVD or what have you DV tape and doing a fresh install of Windows XP Pro SP2 and then reinstall your software. Depending on how long it has been since you’ve had a fresh install things could be getting a little cluttered.

good luck.

Paul

[Paul]

Not exactly sure what’s going on but sometimes when I have the program side set to “fit” this happens to me or when the timeline hasn’t been rendered. I’m sure you’ve tried all of that.

cheers,
Paul

[Paul]

This may not be much help but I do remember Jacob Rosenburg talking about how to do 5.1 mixing with Premiere. It’s in his Premiere Pro 2.0 Studio Techneques book.

[Paul]

Hey I found a better one.

https://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/gradientmesh/

hope this is better… talk to you later.

Paul

[Paul]

if that’s it then you can take it down now… thanks again.

This stuff is tough when one is learning 24/7

cheers,
Paul

[Paul]

You’re a god… so I just need the #container and the the little code for scaling between the next two curly brackets? is that it?

Thanks for your help.

[Paul]

I found a URL that discusses this.

https://www.it-enquirer.com/main/ite/more/illustrator_tutorial_mesh_gradient/

hope it helps.

Paul

[Paul]

Hopefully someone more experienced will reply but I’m thinking can’t you follow the same procedures(basically) and do them in Illustrator?

[Paul]

Thanks Matty,

I’m a novice with some of the audio but your response helped a little. Do you know of any resources (pdfs, online etc.) that might take one through a very simple example?

Cheers,

Paul

[Paul]

Here’s what I’m doing for the meantime. I think that my using Arial and then SimSung (for my chinese text) is causing the titler to die. so I’m not going to do anything where I have to move both simultaneously. so I will click on the arial.. edit it.. move it.. etc. Then click on the SimSung and do the same. Shift clicking and then … there is no then. The application goes into a tailspin.

p.s. Anyone know or remember the website to make suggestions to adobe?

Cheers,
Paul