Slow Saving Premiere Project

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jlawrence

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Jun 13, 2003, 5:45:00 PM6/13/03
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I am having a problem in saving my projects. It takes up to 5-minutes to save any project. I have plenty of storage space...It does save the project, but takes a long time.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

jlawrence

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Jun 13, 2003, 5:43:29 PM6/13/03
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David Coleman Jones

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Jun 15, 2003, 10:07:14 PM6/15/03
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What size processor do you have? Also, how much Ram? 512 is minimal and 1+ gig is best. When is the last time you defragmented your hard drive? When you're doing editing defrag daily. Scan for erros and reboot before starting. It will save you a lot of time.

David

jlawrence

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Jun 16, 2003, 3:03:07 PM6/16/03
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I have dual 1 gig processors, 143 gig of storage, 523 MB ram. Did a scan disk will try a defrag.
Thanks!

RGBaker

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Jun 16, 2003, 3:37:30 PM6/16/03
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'Saving' a project should take milliseconds. All that is saves is a few kb of text data ...

There is no way (IMHO) that this s a disc problem or a RAM problem (and given that I have a system with 200mhzCPU & 128MB that works with Premiere, and even my prime system only uses 512MB I think that David's RAM recommendations are over the top ... and CPU has nothing significant to do with project saving).

Either I don't understand what you mean by 'save a project' or something is seriously misconfigured with your set up. If the latter, do a reinstall of Premiere & make sure that your registry is pointed in the right direction.

GB

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Jun 16, 2003, 3:48:26 PM6/16/03
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I am tempted to belive it could be a preferences file problem.

Try starting Premiere while holding sown the Control and Shift keys. It will wipe out your preferences file and start a new one.

You will have to reset file location preferences, and I think you'll lose saved workspaces.

Steven
<http://www.stevengotz.com/premiere>

Jim-Clark

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Jun 16, 2003, 4:12:16 PM6/16/03
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Are you new to Premiere?? Have your projects ever saved quickly??

Is it possible you are actually Exporting your project and calling is "save"??

jlawrence

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Jun 17, 2003, 11:32:51 AM6/17/03
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I am not really new to Premiere. We have had the system(V6.0) for about a year. Projects did save quickly when we first purchased the system. When we save our projects we just use the "save" not export.
Tried the CTRL-SHIFT when starting Premiere. Did not help. Guess my last option is to reinstall the software.

Jim-Clark

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Jun 17, 2003, 12:41:02 PM6/17/03
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Before you go to all the pain of reinstalling the software, try to determine if it's really a problem with Premiere or perhaps something wrong in the computer.

How well do it do if you use Windows Explorer and just copy or move a large file from one folder to another?? If you can move one of your large video files between folders and it happens pretty fast, then I would say it's someting in Premiere. But if you try to move a file that is say 100MB and it takes more than just a few seconds then it's more likely to be something in you system.

David Baumber

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Jun 18, 2003, 4:15:35 AM6/18/03
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I have the same problem... slow slow slow!

It used to save very fast and I have made no alterations to the system. File moving annd copying is as fast as ever, other applications run fine, just Premiere has slowed down on saves by 10 fold. Our system is a Zpro Xeon 933mhz with 512Meg Ram and 250 Gig raid array.

David

jlawrence

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Jun 18, 2003, 10:57:17 PM6/18/03
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David, same here. Everything else works fine. Did you solve the problem? I sure would like a way to resolve this without reloading the program or using the system restore disk.

rapido78840

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Jun 21, 2003, 12:47:35 AM6/21/03
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I have a toshiba laptop 2.0 ghz, and a • 512KB Level 2 Cache integrated on die
• 400MHz front side bus clock speed, 16mb ati M6-P video memory, but when I try to save a video on avi format on this way: file-export timeline-movie, its to slow maybe a 20 minutes or more on a avi file with (10.4 mb with mosaic and transform efects)
it is the same on your pc's?
thanks
Homero

RGBaker

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Jun 21, 2003, 6:53:09 AM6/21/03
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Homero, you are not describing 'saving' but 'exporting' ...

GB

rapido78840

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Jun 21, 2003, 5:47:57 PM6/21/03
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ok one more time I save this timeline on this way: file-Export timeline-movie, because on this way its incluid all the efects what I do it with a project.
and its tooooo sloooowwww.
for your RGBaker its the same?
thanks
Homero

RGBaker

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Jun 21, 2003, 10:37:06 PM6/21/03
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'Exporting' a project varies infinitely based on codec choices, effects, filters, length of project et cetera. I have had projects that required twelve hours or more of rendering -- this is not 'saving' a project, which should happen very quickly regardless of your effects et cetera.

A cuts only render to the same codec as the source will go quickly -- an effects heavy render to a highly compressed codec will take a long time, and will be speeded up only if you upgrade to a faster CPU or dual CPU or some such.

GB

rapido78840

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Jun 22, 2003, 11:36:08 PM6/22/03
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Thanks RGBaker, but at last, what its dual cpu
Rapido
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