[Peter Berthet]

out of interest, how long have you waited on the project to load ?

we recently completed a long form docco here on CS4 and once the project was nearing completion it often took 30-40 minutes to load the project in the morning

CS4 does not handle long form well, despite their latest updates it just seems to hate big complex projects

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

ive recently finished an hour & a half multicam edit under vista64 using CS4, went smoothly, no problems at all!

My system is fairly clean of third party drivers however.

i Certainly wouldnt feel comfortable under windows 7 until its finalised and there are proper drivers available

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

as far as im aware CS4 has the same features on mac or PC,
further NO software allows you to preview HDV footage during capture, you always need to look at your camera

while there are undoubtedly problems with CS4 in general, is there something specific you were having problems with ? or was this a general gripe?

ive been building huge bluray projects in encore and not experienced any odd crashes, iMovie is great too! if you just want some template dvds.. if your set on authoring your own dvd’s however, you may find iMovie a little limiting.

EDIT: something i forgot to mention,
Ive actually found CS4 to be far more stable generally under OSX than windows. Is your system setup correctly ? Are you running enough ram? latest updates?

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

…if media encoder doesnt crash overnight …

welcome to CS4 Chris!

Unfortunately the use of AME is necessary to export from PPRO CS4,
only advice i can give for projects such as the one you’ve described would be to keep your project clean, and remove any unused media or unnecessary timelines before you export; As AME loads the whole project to export the one timeline, if you have a complex premiere project then AME can take a LONG time and can sometimes crash.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, just keep those projects tidy!

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

FCP.”[walter biscardi] “I understood it fully. I don’t understand why one filter has to operate differently than the hundreds of other filters I use in FCP.”

Id say because unlike other filters, the purpose of the Broadcast safe ‘filter’ is to make the clip safe! In my mind it should override other filters because thats the whole point of the thing!

Perhaps it shouldnt be classed as a filter but rather as a separate tool ?

Considering in a long project you have to have hundreds of broadcast safe filters applied to clips, it can be fairly easy to miss if you’ve accidentally got it in the wrong order.

Next thing you know your tape gets rejected. Wouldnt life be easier if it just automatically took priority ?

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

ppro 2 doesnt support multicore anything.. so no, there isnt really any benefit to you while using premiere

everything else should go faster though

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

we constantly move files between systems, generally uncompressed is the best method. especially if its still an ongoing job

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

in my experience premieres time remaining indicator sucks to high heaven,

have you actually left the render to go for more than an hour or just cancelled it immediately ?

i had a similar problem on a project that indicated it was going to take 16 hours to render but after an hour or so of exporting the time remaining dropped to 2 hours and was fairly swift afterwards

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

daniel unfortunately a lot of people are giving you guesses on how to resolve your problem.

As someone who has been dealing with the same issue on a similar system for the last 2 months, i will tell you that it is neither your system OR vista 64 that are causing the issue.

It is now accepted by Adobe that long form projects such as yours bring premiere to its knees, no amount of ram or processing power will fix it because the software in itself is broken.

CS4 WILL work quite happily assuming you cutdown the project into smaller pieces to work on, this is the easiest way to operate until they patch the software, something that Adobe have said is in the works.

Trust me, its NOT you. The software at this stage is just crap.

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

best advice i could give is to cut the project up into smaller separate projects (not sequences)

and edit that way

cs4 has some serious problems with large long form projects, some of which you have described above

until they patch, workarounds are the easiest option

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia