[Vincent Rosati]

A 60+ page layout is a heavy load. Depending in the content, I start to feel the pain at about 20 pages.
I really don’t have any ideas, other that More Power. A bunch of RAM, a bunch of scratch disks, minimized system fonts and a font management app, multi-core processor.

Perhaps there’s something you could do with the Delete/Add/Replace Pages function in Acrobat Pro.
You’d have your master AI file, and a master PDF. When you make a change to the AI file, only export the needed page as a PDF than you could replace the page in Actobat Pro.

Just some ideas.?

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I’d turn off ‘Scale Clips to Project Dimensions’ in your project settings. Reset all of the images motion parameters to 100% (in the Effects Control tab), and use Video Effect/Distort/Transform for resizing. It uses a better interpolation method.
Apply Video Effect/Blur/Gaussian Blur – 0 to the titles. It forces a better quality rendering.

As for the the encoding, a bigger frame size is generally better. Since your doing a desktop video, you could use any size, but I’d stick with a standard format such as DV or even an HD size.
Use a standard film or broadcast frame-rate.
The project and export should be Progressive.
Use 2-Pass VBR encoding.
Image Quality 100%.
Set the bitrate at 2560kbps, to start. Do a test encoding of a 10-second portion, and see how it looks. Just keep bumping up the bitrate until you find one that suits your needs.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

First, I’d try to Create a New Trimmed Project. If there are clips in your project that aren’t being used, this is the easiest way to separate resources that aren’t being used. It will move only the materials that are being used in the project into a new location.
Results may vary, depending on how you clipped your source material and the codec that the files are in.
Project/Project Manager/Create a New Trimmed Project.

“would it also be possible to separate my bins into individual adobe projects?”
I’m sure you could. I’ve never done that, but you could probably just Save your project in as many versions as you wanted, than delete all of the parts that you don’t need in each project.
Although, it would be more typical to create new sequences, within the existing project, for each portion that you want to isolate.
Than, finally, you would nest all of these ‘isolated sequences’ into one ‘master’ sequence. This is generally referred to as ‘nesting sequences’.

“this process of deleting real files and leaving temps?”
I may have confused you. You do need all of the source files that are used in the project. However, you can delete your temp files. This can sometimes help to fix performance issues.
Different versions of Premiere generate temp files differently. I’m in PP1.5. My temp files are in folders called ‘Conformed Audio Files’ and ‘Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files’. The actual files have really long names, you can delete these.

It sounds like you’re managing a large project. It isn’t easy, there’s a lot of considerations to make at every step.

You might want to look at this thread. It covers system optimizing…
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/205/871353

Also, many cameras output MPEG files. If your files are MPEG, I’d consider converting the footage to an intermediate codec prior to import, in the future. It greatly reduces strain on your system.

For more detailed help, consider filling out your profile with all of your specs – OS, hardware, software, camera, etc.

🙂

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Hey Lillian,
A lot of people have issues similar to this. So, you’ve already encoded an MPEG-2, you’ve imported it into Premiere and are now trying to create a DVD Folder???
I forget if you are on a Mac or a PC, does the MPEG-2 file work in any other desktop DVD/MPEG-2 compliant playback software?
If the MPG does work, do you have any other DVD authoring software that you could try?
If it doesn’t work, you might have to go back to the original project and export an uncompressed or lossless compressed AVI/MOV file, than re-encode the new movie file.

Just some ideas

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Ugh! I feel your pain, brother. I know what it is to want to cry on Premiere.
Premiere does write temp files, for your project, but you always need to have your source files.
However, if you’ve sorted and removed unneeded files from the project, you could shut down Premiere, delete all of the temp files, reopen the project, and let Premiere rebuild only the needed temps.
It would probably be good to run a defragmentation, after the temp files are rebuilt.
Premiere likes to use many smaller clipped scene files, rather than large multi-scene files.
Look at Project/Project Settings/General/Playback Settings to see that no resources are being used to display on DV hardware, if applicable.
Check Edit/Preferences/Scratch Disks to see that you’re utilizing all of your hardware resources.
You could try Project/Project Manager, and create a new trimmed project.

Just some ideas

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Sorry, a Jpeg is a raster image. Once you have it open in Illustrator, you select it with the Direct Selection or Group Selection tool.
Anytime you select a raster image in AI, the Live Trace options will appear on the top menu. You can simply click ‘Live Trace’ or click the drop-down menu (the little triangle next to the Live Trace button) to customize the tracing parameters.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

If it’s an 8X disc, that’s probably the maximum read/write speed.
Memorex should be good.
I’ve never used PE, but I don’t think PP give you a speed option either.
Generally, I’d recommend that you burn with dedicated burning software, that allows more control over the burn process.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I’ve never used Cyberlink to burn a DVD. In Nero, you have the option to Verify the burn. Perhaps CyberLink has something similar.
Also, some basics are…
Always use brand name media
Burn DVD-Video at the slowest available speed

Also, more fundamental, are you sure you are burning an actual DVD-Video, and not simply burning a movie file onto a DVD.

Just a few ideas.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Hard to say. Maybe some of your fonts are corrupted, try FontDoctor.??

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Select the raster image, than click Live Trace. After the trace is done, you can Object/Expand.

Vince