Adobe Premiere 6.5 crashes with 6GB avi file

[clothesburner626]

WTF? Why can't I import a 6GB .avi file into Premiere without crashing? Is this normal?

[edDV]

No, Got disk space?
Also move scratch disk to other than OS drive. One with gobs of space.

Also describe your machine if you want help.

[pchan]

I think Premiere 6.5 cannot take more than 4hrs if your 6gig AVI is DivX format.

[clothesburner626]

No, Got disk space?
Also move scratch disk to other than OS drive. One with gobs of space.

Also describe your machine if you want help.

Processor: P4 2.6 GHZ Processor w/ Hyperthreading
Motherboard: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe w/ Dual DDR Memory
RAM: 1 GB Kingston 400 MHZ
Hard Drives: (2) Maxtor 80GB 7,200 RPM drives w/ 8MB Cache and (2) Western Digital 36GB Raptor 10,000RPM drives set up on a RAID. Drives are inter-changeable via Kingpin Hot Swap Boxes
Soundcard: M-audio Delta 1010
Operating System: Win XP Pro

Scratch disk separate from OS drive... one with gobs of space... set Premiere up EXACTLY like in the tutorial... at a loss.

The material I am trying to import into Premiere is less than an hour long! It was captured using NeroVisionExpress, Type 2.

[edDV]

Are we talking about a DV-AVI file or Divx et al.

Premiere is a DV format editor.

Standard educational response: AVI like Quicktime is a container, not a video standard. You can put anything you want into an AVI, even text if you are clever. You need to define a codec to define an AVI.

[Bucky_Katt]

Are all your drives NTFS ?

[pchan]

Try use GSPOT and confirm if the clip from NeroVisionExpress is DV format.

[clothesburner626]

Are all your drives NTFS ?

Yes.

[clothesburner626]

Try use GSPOT and confirm if the clip from NeroVisionExpress is DV format.

That's right! Forgot all about this program. I'll confirm and get back to you.

[clothesburner626]

Are we talking about a DV-AVI file or Divx et al.

Premiere is a DV format editor.

Standard educational response: AVI like Quicktime is a container, not a video standard. You can put anything you want into an AVI, even text if you are clever. You need to define a codec to define an AVI.

I don't quite understand what you are saying... still pretty new at this.

[edDV]

Are we talking about a DV-AVI file or Divx et al.

Premiere is a DV format editor.

Standard educational response: AVI like Quicktime is a container, not a video standard. You can put anything you want into an AVI, even text if you are clever. You need to define a codec to define an AVI.

I don't quite understand what you are saying... still pretty new at this.

The native format for Premiere is DV (e.g. from MiniDV or Digital8 camcorder).
http://www.dvformat.com/htm/features/2000/8_00/dv_format_faq.htm
http://www.adamwilt.com/DV.html

Anything imported to Premiere needs to be converted to DV video or approved audio formats. The system can also be configured for some other Quicktime or Video for Windows formats including MJpeg, uncompressed, etc. when special capture hardware is used. Direct MPeg editing can be added with a $250 plug-in from Mainconcept.

http://www.mainconcept.com/mpeg_pro.shtml#standard

Great Premiere Primers are here
http://www.adobe.com/motion/primers.html