Adobe Premiere 6.02-How to tweak?? Newb request

[Maxwellbest]

Hi all,

Have Adobe Premiere 6.02. Blown away with the "potential" of the package. However, having come up from Ulead Video Studio 8 to edit, tmpgenc to encode to DVD, I am somewhat dissapointed at the almost bizarre length of tme it takes to render somethng in Premiere. For instance, I try to save a 10 minute clip (I edit my own home movies for sharing, via DVD player, my family thinks its great)) to MS avi, and it prompts me that its going to take hours to do this.

I stumped up the cash for the CCE basic plug in for Premiere, again, I am not sure I am getting as good results as with my previous tool set. Some how it seems to be jumpy, not smooth, if thats the best way I can explain it. I compile my project in Premiere, export to CCE basic, PAL 2 pass VBR. A title, a few transitions, seems slow and I am unsure as to the quality.

My system is an AMD XP 1600, 512 ram, Radeon 9600 xt gpu, windows XP 7200rpm 60 gig HD.
Have checked the guides , does anyone have any advice on tweaking Premiere, that render to AVI is ridiculous? IS there an AVI plug in for Premiere?
Could it being an older ver of Premiere has some bearing on performance? My hardware not keeping up ?
No problem with Ulead and TMPGenc 2.5

Your help most appreciated!

Would like to exploit the powerfful features in Premiere, otherwise the rendering etc issues I may have to let it go which is a shame. Cant drop a house payment for Vegas or Premiere Pro 1.5 (Is the rendering thing fixed with that?)
Cheers

[bugster]

From my limited experience with Premiere, I think your problems may be your PC. Xp1600 is not that fast these days, but Premiere is a real memory Hog. When it is rendereing, use the windows task manager to monitor memory useage, you could well be running out of physical memory, in which case it will start to swap stuff to/from disk which is painfully slow. A memory upgrade to 1G would not be expensive.

Another possibility of 'tweaking' is using a second hard drive. Have the source files on one and the output files on the other. This must be a 2nd physical hard drive, 2 partitions on one physical HD will not help.


Not much to go on there but hopefully a start.

[Maxwellbest]

From my limited experience with Premiere, I think your problems may be your PC. Xp1600 is not that fast these days, but Premiere is a real memory Hog. When it is rendereing, use the windows task manager to monitor memory useage,

Yes, checked my memory usage, with a a project on the timeline, it measured a whopping 768. Bear in mind that my compuer has 512 megs of ram. You have hit the nail on the head. Checked with ULead loaded and project on timeline, 288 usage.

Premiere is a resource hog, its the first application on my computer to be a show stopper. Gunna have to wait for a major upgrade before I use Premiere again.

What are other users experienceing? Do all Premiere users have one gig of memory, cpus in the 3 gig plus mark? Given that this piece of software dates from 2001 I find it surprising that it runs like a dog on my system.

Thanks