Learning about computer crashes

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storyp24

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I have always been careful about computer crashes with Premiere. Usually it happens when rendering large files. There are a few things that really are problematic

1. photographs that have not been scaled down to 72dpi. If you start to notice your pictures turning green or black then check the dpi and size 720x 480

2. In a timeline with embedded sequences you must render them as you go. If I try to do a large project at once it crashes. Even then with a larger project I must restart the computer with every 20 minutes of timeline. And of course I save after I do any kind of work.

3. I have a relatively new computer with 2 gig ram, 3 large hard drives and 4 fans. One of the fans that cools the graphics card went bad. My computer was crashing a lot and once with a huge project that I thought I lost. I replaced the fan, got it back from the shop and I smelled something like burning rubber. It needed another fan even larger fan. If a graphics card gets warm it really messes with the preformance.

hope this may help others
 
I feel like the problems you encounter are personal issues that premiere might be having with your computer or that your computer is having. The DPI setting should not matter as long as your image is 720x480 with a .9 PAR. DPI is for printing purposes. The other issues you are having i have never had issues with and i just rendered out a 2 hour embed sequence that i applied a color correction on. Always make sure to have your prject saved every 5 minutes and you can always revert back to archived project files if something does indeed happen.
 
.. sounds like a cpu overheating issue. if it crashes during rendering its likely crunching hard and overheating.. not relaly a premiere issue. the size of an imported still doesnt matter. you can import a large pic and pan and scan it if you want.
 
Yes I think many issues are with the computer and not Premiere. I wanted others to not too quickly blame Premiere. However, I have always had trouble rendering a large file, 45 minutes or larger with graphics. Just now I was rendering a 45 minute file to a DVD when it returned an error message like lost frame. So I had to save the project as a movie file, drop into timeline, and it rendered fine as a DVD file. No idea why that happens but I do have a good work around.
 
put some bigger fands in that case, and open up a front bay and put a screen mesh in or a fan bay. cool that puupy down and youll likely have beeter glitch free performance all around. it will be louder but by some nice quiet fams and it wont be too bad.
 
I've got to "flush out" my ram every 4 hours while working with big files as well. I think the ram gets "clouded" when working hour after hour, I can tell this because the system gets sluggish after editing over and over for hours. If I don't, the system crashes and I get that dam "PPRO has encountered an error" bullshit...and attempts to save your last file.
To avoid this, I simply shut down PPRO (within about 4 hours) and reboot the system.... totally flush out the static ram. Then, I have hours of crash free work time.
I also have 2 GB ram...(1.2 TB) Might not be the best way to handle it...but it does work for me.

Also, if it does crash, I never let the system "save" my last file.... for some strange reason, it never really does save the last file.... it saves work done 10 mins ago.... if I ever get that menu pop up, and I know I just saved my last work minutes ago... I simply hit my computer's reset button, and reboot it up. My last file will be there when I open PPRO.

Not logical... but again... works on my system. Food for thought.
 
storyp24 said:
Yes I think many issues are with the computer and not Premiere. I wanted others to not too quickly blame Premiere. However, I have always had trouble rendering a large file, 45 minutes or larger with graphics. Just now I was rendering a 45 minute file to a DVD when it returned an error message like lost frame. So I had to save the project as a movie file, drop into timeline, and it rendered fine as a DVD file. No idea why that happens but I do have a good work around.
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There's a patch for Media Encoder to fix the "failed to return a video frame" problem, if that's what you meant by "lost frame".
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/330380.html
 
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