Problems with Premiere Pro

Brian Rose · March 8, 2005

Whenever I try to export a film (usually a short clip of 5 to 10 minutes, Mpeg2), about mid to two-thirds of the way through, the process shuts down, and I get a message that says (to the effect) that Adobe missed a frame and had to shutdown. Has anyone else had this problem. Does anyone know of a solution?

Chance Shirley · March 8, 2005

> Does anyone know of a solution?

Use Final Cut Pro.

Sorry, that's the wise-ass answer. But I've never gotten anything out of Premiere or After Effects but headaches, whereas Apple's video software is easy-to-use and reliable for the most part.

Bob Hayes · March 8, 2005

I?m a PC person and use adobe Premiere to cut my reels. I really think Final Cut pro is the way to go. Premiere is very buggy. I had the same problems you are having. Ultimately I paid the $65 to get unlimited on-line help which really saved my ass. It's not like they had the answers for me but they had some of them. I spent a lot of trial and error with them on the phone solving one problem and creating another. Premiere was crashing so often was fragmenting my hard drive at a scary level. This is my primary computer so this is a big problem. Premiere help couldn't really solve my problems completely so I spent a lot of money chasing my tail.

That said I ended up installing a raided drive in my PC. A raided drive is two drives linked together. I also set up another ?user? in my system for Adobe Premiere so when I edit all my other crap is shut down. I wish I could give you more help. I?m now able to import and edit and author DVD?s now. Investing in the Unlimited Adobe help was pretty valuable.

Phil Rhodes · March 8, 2005

Hi,

> Premiere was crashing so often was fragmenting my hard drive at a scary level.

Software crashing doesn't cause drive fragmentation. RAID drives will not solve problems with fragmentation

Video edit rigs do tend to do better if they're specialised. It's not as if the hardware to run Premiere is that expensive. Running Premiere and a half dozen other minor tasks works; running Premiere, half a dozen other minor tasks, a virus scanner, the virus scanner's updater, a popup killer, a web browser, the thing you installed on the web browser because a popup your killer missed told you to, the pointless pretty application that came with your sound/graphics/SCSI/RAID card, qttask.exe, something AOL supplied, MSN Messenger, a filesharing client and a window showing porn...

... is a recipe for disaster. If the systray (that's "notification area" for XP users) has more than five or six icons in it, you're running too much junk.

Phil