Need a fast/easy codec for betas

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:30 am

Can you render out in uncompressed?

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:59 am

Nope, one of two things will happen when I try partway through the render. (And the point at which it does this is totally random so it's not like there's a bad frame in there).

1. I get the typical "This program has performed an illegal operation . . ." message from windows.

2. Premiere will just totally close for no reason, no warning message no nothing, it just closes.

Though recently the program has been warning me about low memory but I changed the setting as I said and that didn't fix it. (No way it's a hard drive space issue since I have close to twenty gigs free).

JediNight · Post by **JediNight** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:00 am

I think you have some serious OS/driver issues with your computer if you're having this many problems. Premiere and AFX are buggy for sure, but I've never heard of anyone having it crash so often, or unable to export video.

I would maybe try reinstalling XP and Premiere. Then make sure you aren't using some crummy combo codec pack like K-lite. I just use CCCP's version of ffdshow, along with the Xvid and Divx encoders. (Well, lagarith and huffy as well I guess) And I've had no crashes since upgrading to CS3.

Also, if it complains about low memory -- how much page file space is alotted in Windows? I can't say for sure, but maybe it fills up your memory + page file so it crashes then?

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:33 am

Seems like reasonable advice.

Your pagefile should be twice as much as your ram.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:42 am

Kionon wrote:Your pagefile should be twice as much as your ram.

Anywhere between 1.5 and 4.5 the amount of ram is possible. If you don't have enough RAM, 4x might be good for you.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:30 pm

Ram = 2.00 gig

As for pagefile, I'm not sure how to locate how much is available but according to my computer its usage is 513 mb. though when Premiere is running it jumps to 1.90 gb; based on the bar this looks to be just slightly under 50% of pagefile usage

During render it jumps to 2.20 gb but more importantly the CPU usage jumps from about 5% to about 62% but sometimes will spike and hit 95%. Though the pagefile usage fluctuates it doesn't appear to go above 2.20 gb during render.

During editing CPU usage is around 5% and PF usage around 1.9-2.0. Just prior ot premiere crashing the CPU usage dives down to 4%, Pagefile usage returns to the 510 mb+ range once it actually crashes.

That help at all?

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:48 pm

Found the virtual memory slot:

Here's what it says atm

Space available = 17733 mb
Set to custom size
Initial size of 2046 mb (barely over 1x the ram)
Maximum size 4092 mb (Twice my ram)

Minimum allowed 2 mb
Recomended 3069 mb
Currently allocated 2046 mb

Now if I alter the custom size and kick it up to around 3000 mb should this fix my problem? I don't want to tweak with the system too much and risk damaging my computer so I'm running this by here first.

JediNight · Post by **JediNight** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:55 pm

Initial size is what it starts out at assuming it doesn't fill it up and need more. If it does then it will automatically expand to 4GB then. Assuming you have 4GB space on that drive.

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:28 pm

Alter the size to be twice. You can handle the loss of 4GBs, and it does improve your overall computing experience. I know people who go up to 10GBs or higher.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:37 am

Nope; same as always.

Hell, AP still keeps telling me it's low on system memory shortly after I open it.

The virtual memory doesn't seem to be spiking into any issues during render but the computer usaage still occassionaly spikes to over 90%. Still not sure if that's it but I'm running out of ideas.

Thankfully I can still make my video after all of this since I can export but only in segments around a minute. So it's more of an irritation than anything else; one I'd like to snuff out nonetheless.