Please help me !!! Does Premiere 6.0 like XP

gypsy · Post by **gypsy** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 5:05 am

Hi all.

One question. Is anybody having as much shit with Windows XP and premiere 6.0 as me ?

I cant work for 10 mins without Premiere crashing. This happens especially when I drag thetimeline backwards. This has forced my to move it backward with the keyboard frame by frame or skip to an earlier part of the track.

Also when I make a timeline marker there is this VERY long extention of the marker. The marker is there and then on the top part of the marker there is this grey extension. It goes on for about 20 frames. Very iretating for I use the markers to mark events in the song.

Another problem I found is that I cant use the ripple delete function. All i get is the common windows ping sound. Sync track is off and I dont know what to do. I've already re-installed premiere and it gives the same problem.

I have only installed the divX decoder and all needed to do my editing. (Huffyuv and the like) I dont think that the problem lies with the codecs so it might be premiere and WinXP that dont like each other.

I am just wondering if there is anybody out there that has had success with winXP and Premiere 6.0 I've recently changed from Windows 2000 to Windows XP cause of everybody saying that XP's so cool. If I cant resolve my problem with XP peacefully I'll just format and re-install Win2K.

Any adise would be deeply appreciated.

Cheers vir eers.
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FirestormXIII · Post by **FirestormXIII** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 12:29 pm

Ouch, you switched from 2k to XP?

Bad move, from everything I've heard. I've hard some people say they have lots of problems with XP and Premiere, and some that have no problems at all.

Your best bet would probably be to re-install Win 2k, from what I hear it's more stable anyway.

Also--be sure that you're not editing in DivX. You probably already know not to, but divX is only going to make your problems worse.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 1:16 pm

Premiere worked fine for me w/ XP. I am using 2000 again though sincne XP = teh suck

Drawshot · Post by **Drawshot** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 4:37 pm

hmmm... When you upgraded to XP, did you do a clean install or did you just install over the top of 2000? Most people that have problems with XP did not do a clean install.

No problems here with Premiere 6.5 and XP. Maybe they fixed the problem in the 6.5 release.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 6:10 pm

I did a clean install and an upgrade (Meaning I had two copies of XP installed, one working and one install from a bad pirated copy of XP Pro Corperate) and I had no problems. Right now, I'm running 6.02 on a clean fresh format (I reformatted 4 days ago, hehe) and the only problem I've had so far is Premiere doesn't like DivX 5.02.

But I know Premiere doesn't like DivX in general, so I shouldn't try. Ill just have to convert the eps I want to use (DBZ of course, I was thinking of doing a DBZ video sometime) into HuffYUV or make clips.

gypsy · Post by **gypsy** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 12:34 pm

Thanx for all the help.

2 Things. Whenever ANY windows gives me problems I always have on solution.

Firstly I did format and do a clean install of XP. It started fine but then I was conencted to the internet from Friday 19:00 to Monday morning 7:00 WITHOUT restarting once. In this time I downloaded, wrote cd's (ran out of hdd space) played cs, Neverwinternights and went mad. I was really impressed. Then on Sunday funny things started to happen.

I was running out of space on my 10 gig (sole windows drive) so I moves 2 gigs to my other drive (40 gig drive) I only got 30 megs free space after MOVING 2 gig

The same thing happened when I tried to clean my 40 gig. I didn't want to restart cause I'd have to reconnect again and this would cost me again

Eventually windows sorted himself out and all was ok. The next day windows was slagging all round and especially in premiere.

Kill everything and start anew. FORMAT

I formatted again and got A&E's new guide (Looks great

)Also converted my drive to NTFS. Haven't had another problem since but am waiting for the weekend when I'm RREALLY gonna work my 1.7 gig to its full capacity.

Can't wait.

Thanx for all the help.

BTW. It's not DivX but I did use a mp3 *hits head against wall* t

though I didn't have one mp3 related problem in my first project AND I used DivX source (Didn't have a choise.)

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 6:17 pm

If you're going to use Premiere for an XP computer, then go for 6.5, not 6.0.

I recently got 6.5 and I've had absolutely no problems, not even memory issues.

But of course you probably can;t afford another software. They should really have an update system for its former costomers. I mean dishing out a few hundred for ANY software is plain rediculous in the first place.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 6:34 pm

I'd have to recommend against 6.5. From my experience, it has been EXTREMELY buggy. Far moreso than 6.0 was. 6.0 never crashed on me unless I did something like edit in divx. In 6.5, if I so much as scroll over the timeline too fast, it could close itself down, without even leaving me any error messages.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 9:17 pm

Everything in 6.5 can be done better, for free, with other programs. Well actually there is the title tool, which is updated from 6.0, but rarely, if ever, would you need that.

~klinky

gypsy · Post by **gypsy** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 4:55 am

Premiere 6.5

Mmmmmm.

Dont know how much it costs there in the USA but poor little old (or young) me lives in South Africa. Here Premiere 6.0 cost me R5500. With the current exchange raste thats about 6-700 dollars.

Forking out another amount like that just because Premiere 6.0 doesn't like XP is not gonna work for me. It is weekend now so I'm really gonna test my PC today.

If all else fails I'll make a dual boot with Win2k and WinXP.

Thanx for the help.

Cheers vir eers.
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