1. I dont think the AMD card is used by PPro while rendering. There
have been a few hints that AMD and Adobe might be considering doing
something together, but no products or development efforts have been
announced (or even leaked) that I have read on a blog or seen in a mag.
2. Yes, allocating file activity to various drives will help
performance (noticeably). But unfortunately having everything use a common
drive does not itself cause crashes. There those who have only one drive and
who are successful. When I had my problems with CS4 I learned about this
distribution idea, I had four drives allocated, yet still crashed.
3. Adobe has made it fairly easy to change the allocations after a
project is begun.
a. Load the project, go to Sequence > Delete Render Files. (This
recovers space from the C drive)
b. Quit the project/PPro.
c. Manually move your raw camera files off the C drive onto another
drive (keeping the same directory structure on the new drive, removing them
from the C drive).
d. Start PPro with the project. PPro will attempt to load the files as
usual, looking for the camera files where they had been. Not finding a file
on C, it will open up an Explorer-like window complaining that it cant find
so-and-so file. In that window you navigate to the new location and select
that file. What happens next is that PPro will go on to the next file, not
find it, but it will automatically look for it in the same place you first
specified, not asking you again, and finds subsequent files there. This is
nice because you dont have to re-specify subsequent files in the same
directory.
e. After your raw files have been loaded, you can go and change all the
disk allocations for this project, including the project file itself, and
save. Then when you render the new render files will go to the new location.
4. Ive done this for several projects. When saving the project to the
new location I tend to rename the new project slightly so I am sure to load
the new project and not the former one, but this may be unnecessary.
Lee
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Adriane
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 10:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AP] Problem diagnosed?? ( WAS "crashing again- background
programs?")
hello again! I think I figured something out.read on!!
things i have done:
*ran win7 memory diagnostic- no problems
*running temp monitor: well within safe ranges
*updated video card driver (it is actually an AMD Radeon 5450- 1 Gb
*in task manager- processes & services seem to be about average from my
research
i'm not clear on what the video card helps with as far as rendering-
anything/nothing? is it all done on the cpu?
i'm now looking at the actual project settings & see some possible problems:
we have 3 hard drives: C: 500 Gb, 2nd Internal drive (E)-1 Tb,
external drive (H)- 500 Gb.
C is the program drive, so there should be nothing else going on there as
far as processing.
The project we're having problems with is NOT set up right, which seems to
be the problem. AHA! He has everything (except the project location- which
is on the H drive) in the DEFAULT location, which in this case is
"C/users/wiilliam/my docs/Adobe/PremierePro/4.0"
SO- The correct setup should be as follows: I will capture the raw video
files to E and set the project up on H. I will also set the Preview files to
go to H (same as project file). Am i correct with all this?
I guess there's no way to change this now? other than trying to find all the
project files, moving them to the correct location & then opening the
project & telling CS4 where it all is?
The true test will be the next project, which will be set up differently (if
you all agree with my assessment!!)
Thanks everybody for hanging with us for this.It appears "Mr. No-Tech"
made a classic newbie error, and I could have figured it out before all
this.
Thanks again- really!
Adriane
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