Serious stability problems with Premiere under win2k

[jm]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem of frequent Premiere crashes under win2k. The problem occurs when I am cutting clips in the preview window - seeking forward and backwards. My computer isn't actually all that puny - it's a 750 Mhz AMD Duron with 390 MB Ram and Win2k SP2 (which is generally really stable). I'm having severe difficulties working like this because what it means is that Premiere crashes just about on every clip extraction. I need dozens of clips to make a decent video so that this makes making videos take f-o-r-e-v-e-r needlessly.

One more thing: the source files I'm using are 320x240, 50Mb clips encoded in MPEG4.

Has anyone else encountered these problems and managed to solve them?

[jm]

Oh, I forgot - it's premiere 6.0.

Should have mentioned that!

[klinky]

One more thing: the source files I'm using are 320x240, 50Mb clips encoded in MPEG4.

That's most likely your problem. Premiere hates DivX files or anything based off of DivX. Your best bet is to convert it to something else like HuffYUV by using a program like VirtualDub.


~klinky

[AbsoluteDestiny]

Its the clips.

Premiere *hates* mp4 variants.

I dont use them and Premiere 6 *never* really crashes for me on win2k.

[jm]

Thanks for the suggestions!!

I've tried to recompress using HuffYUV 2.1 - the problem is that the output file generated comes out at almost 3 GB; which is far more than my HD can manage. I'm looking for a maximum output size of 300-400 MB per episode converted. Since I'm going to have to come back and rechop a few times I'd rather be able to keep a few episodes converted than have to keep reconverting them all the time.

For now I'll play around with the other codecs. I hope I manage to stumble on another one that doesn't make Premiere choke and has the quality and size I'm looking for.

[turboneko]

Well, Huffyuv it's still the best solution for quality editing. If you can't afford to convert whole episodes then try to convert only the bits you need for your video. Needs more work but in the end pays with more organization of the clips and less HD space consumed

[JCD]

also if you don't mind if a bit of the source quality scarifices, you could use indeo video as codec. it doesn't work as good as huffyuv, but good enough.