Adobe Premiere problem ??

3thman · Member Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Location: Egypt

In Premiere cs3 the video in the preview screen moves slowly & does not synchronize the audio ... In Premiere cs4 it freezes & does not move while the audio runs well.

I have 2.55 GB free space on C drive & 1 GB ram

How to solve this problem ?

edDV · Posted: Oct 29, 2009 15:04

What is the source video format? Is it supported by Premiere CS3?

Premiere CS3 needs a Core2Duo for most compressed formats. What is a "3000"?
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3thman · Member Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Location: Egypt

edDV · Posted: Oct 29, 2009 16:11

poisondeathray · Member Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Location: Canada

I've used both in PP CS4 before, and it should work fine. Do you have ffdshow installed? That is what is used by CS4 to decode Xvid/AVI files (it uses a directshow import). (enable xvid in the ffdshow configuration, set to libavcodec)

What audio formats? Use mediainfo (view=>text)

edDV · Posted: Oct 29, 2009 16:26

CS3/4 would not support xvid for preview window playback out of the box. It would look to Directshow.

That doesn't mean xvid is supported as an import standard.
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poisondeathray · Member Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Location: Canada

I would also get more system memory, as PP CS4 eats a lot - it's a hog. 1GB is not enough. You can open up taskmanager and see how much is being used by your applications. Close down non-essential programs

I would put your source files on a separate hard drive and free up space on your C: drive. 2.5GB free is tiny and it's probably fragmented. It is probably swapping to the page file with such low memory. This "thrashing" will greatly reduce performance. I would also defrag once you free up some space

3thman · Member Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Location: Egypt

Sorry 4 retard and thank u so much ( poisondeathray & edDV ) 4 these very useful instructions

- About the HDD , I increased the partition C: (8 GB free after installation ) & defragmented the entire HDD

- About RAM , I ll increase it , because the problem is not solved yet. ... and I ll inform u about the result.

- I face another problem ... I ll write it now in its section ... its in VDub ,it may be a part of this problem.

lordsmurf · Posted: Nov 01, 2009 15:08

CS3 works very slowly on a single-core machine,
and CS4 won't even run.

I only use CS3 on dual core with 2GB RAM,
and CS4 only on dual or quad with at least 4GB RAM.

8GB free? You need a much larger hard drive.

Honestly, you need to convert the XVID pre-Premiere, using something like VirtualDub, to a lossless intermediary like HuffYUV or fully uncompressed YUY2. DirectShow decode in Premiere, for compressed formats, really sucks.

For an older machine like that, you may need to consider finding Premiere 6.5 instead. It's far more stable on single-core systems, and more stable than some of the early Premiere "Pro CS" versions.

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3thman · Member Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Location: Egypt