[Peter Berthet]

it was a bluescreen error, it directed me to 3 files which were according to windows better able to “describe the problem”

one file didnt exist,
one file was full of ascii
the third was empty

good job microsoft !

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

interesting.. ill give that a try now

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

Itd be nice Bill 🙂

But this particular problem i know has existed since CS3, maybe earlier ?

I completely agree though, PPRO isnt designed for longform complex projects, i highly doubt they even test it on anything more involved than a few clips in the timeline.

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

well if you want to maintain a high quality file and its for dvd you could export an MPEG2 file rather than an avi

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

im not sure what the cause of your main problem is
but media encoder crashing is the softwares fault, ive been dealing with the same issue for the last week.

unfortunately until adobe take responsibility for the holes in their software we are all just going to have to workaround

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

we thought it was ram too initially, but the performance of the software isnt hindered when its actually running
its only the excessive load times that are an issue

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

the only hardware i forgot to mention is a decklink HD Extreme card,
the software installation was refreshed barely over 2 weeks ago, including the OS

the machine is custom built

im more inclined to believe that the issue lies with the software though, the same project was loaded on another machine here and had the same load time issues

so we can recreate it

seems to occur once a project has a large amount of media in it, as well as a complex sequence

this particular project file is 58Mb in size, just for the project file
i did a little test and removed half the timeline, removed unused media from the project and saved it out to another file
then loaded it, and it seems that halving the media also halved the load time

i believe it has something to do with premiere indexing the media on project load, which obviously cant be helped

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

the best balance of quality and file size you could go for would likely be a DV AVI file

whats the end product going to be out of interest ?

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

short answer, yes

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

if your creating your blu ray disc using adobe encore, it transcodes raw media into mpeg 2 dynamically based on the available disc space, which generally equates to a higher quality end product

rather than using adobe media encoder BEFORE going into premiere, just import your uncompressed file into premiere and do the work you need to do
then export uncompressed into encore and have it build the disc for you

the end result will be better than if youve double handled mpeg2

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia