Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0 - Audio Hiccups! - Can Anyone Help? Is anyone here an Adobe Premiere Elements guru? I simply cannot afford Adobe Premiere Pro. I do not do music videos for a living (although I'd LIKE to some day). After reading below, some of you may be able to tell me if my computer can handle Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, or maybe an earlier version...
I am breaking the hearts of my entire family right now because I cannot get a "music video" finished. My son, Brandon, who has Leukemia, and also just had surgery, ENDURED my direction through a hot and sweaty and buggy Southwest Georgia video shoot around some old family barns that have been in my family for generations, that are about to be torn down. For obvious sentimental reasons for family, it is critical that this video gets completed and distributed to family, to preserve what will not be around much longer. I am REALLY FRUSTRATED with AUDIO HICCUP. While editing, usually around a scene change, the audio will just cut out for a few seconds, just like someone flipped a switch. Being a music video, I want the scenes to change ON MUSICAL BEATS. What is interesting is that the AUDIO HICCUPS DO NOT EXIST in test rendering (to MPG file), so I feel confident that when I get a bunch of these 2-10 second clips together for a whole four minute song, they are going to look and sound great, BUT, EDITING has now become IMPOSSIBLE, because, 50-75% of the time, the music has cut out, and I cannot tell where the musical downbeat will fall, and thus where to start a new video clip. The hiccups TEND to happen (the music TENDS to cut out) upon scene changes, but NOT ALWAYS. The audio cut-off happens at DIFFERENT TIMES on each play back, with a TENDENCY toward cutting out at the instant of a scene change. What REALLY irritates me is that my old Dell Inspiron 9300 Laptop with ONLY 2GHz of RAM and a Centrino 2GHz processor (5 years old!) runs this software WITHOUT the HICCUPS, however, my BRAND NEW DESKTOP, which (I'm told is MORE THAN POWERFUL ENOUGH to run Adobe) is giving me some "critically low on system memory - save and proceed with caution" error, and giving me these MADDENING audio hiccups, even though it is a 2.8 GHz Quad Core i7, 1TB system drive with about half the drive space available, external Lacie Firewire editing drive with about 250 GB FREE, and Windows XP on one side of a dual boot, which sees 3 GB of RAM. It also has a Win 7 dual boot on the other side, which sees 8 GB of RAM, and has the SAME memory error message and hiccup problems! There are VERY FEW background programs running (e.g. anti virus) - FAR FEWER than my laptop I am speaking of, and I DO NOT put this machine on the Internet, unless I have a critical update or download. This machine is STRICTLY for video and audio editing! The reason I had the machine built as a dual boot is because I use Pro Tools heavily for music recording and it still does not play nice with Win 7. Also, on the Windows 7 side, for some reason, the edit window is really grainy and pixelized looking, where as, in Windows XP, everything is GORGEOUS. My thinking is that my Windows XP side with 3 GB of RAM SHOULD be able to more than handle these simple scene changes and the simple MP3 audio track of ONLY PIANO. Incidentally, I also tried the audio track as a WAV file and had the same problem. My thinking was that there might be an issue with my video clips being MP4 and the audio being MP3, and that there might be some conflict. I used a Flip Ultra HD camera to shoot which creates MP4 files. The camera is low end and very shaky, but it is 720p Hi Def, and SUPER CONVENIENT to carry around. I tried converting the files to AVI, but then the files get HUGE and the whole system grinds down to a snail crawl, and fluid video becomes jerky video flickers. Interestingly, when I pull in some AVI video files from previous projects, which are MUCH LARGER than the current MP4 Flip video files I'm trying to use, there is NOT A BIT OF TROUBLE with audio! But, this piano song will not work as a video of a live rock band in a club...LOL...I NEED to get this finished WITH the Flip HD MP4 files of my son AT THE FAMILY BARNS... So...I have a $3, 5 year old laptop that I CANNOT continue to use because it is dying FAST, and I have this brand new macho $3000 machine that will only limp along...What gives? Any suggestions? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help. I am in the dog house with the entire family right now, and the family reunion is FAST APPROACHING! Thanks! Steve [email protected] Bainbridge, Georgia 229-416-8340 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
