Premiere problem

[Georg Liigand]

Hello,

I have done several edits in Adobe Premiere Pro and everything has gone quite fine until I got into problems with some more complex edits. For example taking an expensive movie we edited and converted into Divx for online sales. That conversion went just fine, but as we are planning to release DVD version of the same film soon, one day I opened the premiere project file and tried to convert it into a one piece AVI. Then it proceeded almost over the half and just crashed to desktop without any errors. Once I had the same issue with another film and I got rid of it by removing all transitions between the clips. But it was just an emergency solution, I really dont feel good removing them from the new film!! So now I am asking for your help - do you have any idea at all what may really cause this crashing and how to solve it? And is there any error log file where I could find the problematic frame so I would not have to mess up the whole edit?

Thank you really really much for any help.

[thecenter]

for as far as I know, there isn't such thing as problematic frame.

Either your system is not strong enough (ram, graphics card etc..) or
you have a partition that was formatted in fat32 (Filesize limit of 4GB) instead of NTFS (no limit).

other option - illigal version that is unstable.

[pijetro]

The quickest answer to this, is not to use DivX..
Are there any other options you could use for streaming video, like .WMV for example??

[Georg Liigand]

Thanks for your answers!

Firstly, here are my system details, it shouldn't be a too bad one:

P4 3.0 Ghz Hyper Threading FSB800
1024MB Kingston DualDDR
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB DDR
120GB Samsung 7200 rpm 8MB HDD NTFS formatted

By the way the problem persists when writing to any format beginning with DV AVI ending with recording to tape. The Divx conversion is something I do later from the AVI which has been exported from Premiere.

thecenter - the copy is in fact legal so this cannot be the case.

Changing or deleting transitions actually does matter, because with one film I was also getting the crashing, but just for testing, I removed all the transitions and it worked out just fine...

I hope that there are some other things to check! Thanks a lot.

[daamon]

Close down all non-essential processes so that RAM and (possibly) CPU are freed up for Premiere to use. That includes not being online and shutting down your firewall / trojan / spyware protection etc.

There's a good tool called EndItAll2 that protects essential processes and allows you to close others that you choose to.