Adobe Premiere and editing of long movies...

[arminio]

I never edit feature - only short movies in Premiere Pro 2 (on Windows XP) and I had several problems with some 30 minute videos I edited. Mostly unexplainable occasional crashing of Premiere and sometimes saved project couldn't be opened later (!)

Now I am starting to edit one feature documentary which will be approx 80 minutes long. Can somebody tell me their experience with editing of long movies in Premiere and stability of Premiere Pro 2 while working with lots of long and short clips in timeline?
Do you edit long movies entire in one project? Do you use sequences (I noticed that Pro 2 crashes when you use lots of sequences - especially if you use one in another) or use multiple projects (divide video in small segments and edit in separately projects and later connect everything together)?

Also, is CS3 more stable?

[vin4evr]

Hello,
I dont find cs3 much better either. I am working on an engegement video, which has long segments and many sequences. One time i couldnt open back the project which I have saved..it said "the proj file is corrupt". Thank god for auto save..i have retrieved the most recent from auto save folder even then I have lost lot of work. I am really getting annoyed with premiere.

[arminio]

This project I can edit on Mac and PC - is it more stable at Mac?

[Guiboche]

Audio becomes a problem too. Premiere will decide to either not play the audio at all. Or, only play a few or 1 track, and will do this at random.

CS3 isn't anymore stable. In some cases, worse. The larger your project, the longer the program hangs just switching from one screen to the next.

That is, if you minimize or open another program, and decide to return to premiere, it will hang for a very long time.

Oh, also, make sure Premiere Pro is set to save at least very 5 minutes. I set mine to paranoid mode (every 2 minutes). But also, one tip is to save a copy of your project. Premiere will corrupt your project if it crashes while trying to save, force kill the software, or force kill XP (by force shutting off).

Another tip, always save your project first before you decide to quit the program. If you close the program, and premiere says "WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAVE CHANGES" and you let the program save, and close automatically, sometimes this action alone corrupts projects. Never do this. SAVE first, wait, then close the program.

[pijetro]

It doesn't matter whether it's an 80 min documentary, or 8000 minute documentary...
Stability issues appear regardless of filesize of the .AVI..

Just like any other program, Premiere is at the mercy of your installation, and computer configuration.
If you're getting specific problems, then i'd suggest going to the Adobe Forums.

[arminio]

What I primarily need to know is how stabel is Premiere on Mac?

[regjo]

Premiere pro 2 becomes sometimes unstable when u use 3 rd party plugins.so if you only work with its build in plugins you should not have a problem.and for longer projects its very good.i use it often.but if you want something more stable and faster than that you should try canopus edius pro 4.6.thats my favorite program