Yes, there is a red line over the clip, just as there is over photos and anything else before it is rendered. Once rendered, the line becomes green. The video clip shows up in Premiere, and I'm able to manipulate it with zoom, etc., but after a few minutes of working on my project, I get the memory messages, audio dropouts and other anomalies.

Mark

Bill, I have read in-depth your articles about scaling images prior to import, and have done that already, as I've done in the past with other video slide shows I've created. This is not a "new" computer, but one I built myself a few years ago, so it has no bloatware, and drivers are up to date. I built this machine as a dedicated digital audio workstation, but have decided to use it for video as well since my other one is just too slow, but it's not working so well even though it is a quad core and my other computer is single core with less RAM.

Mark

As I said before, all my drivers are up to date. Thanks.

Mark

OK, there is definitely still something wrong with this computer. I've updated all drivers, etc. While the Premiere Elements 7 runs "better" now, it still crashes from time to time, and does some weird things with the images, like making them upside down in the timeline view, but not on playback. They just don't playback when this happens. Also, when I go to render the project down to a DVD file, I get a Transcoding Error at about 92 percent most of the time. Sometimes sooner. I've tried shutting to the computer down and rebooting, and got it to work one time, but when I had to change something in the video, I was unable to get it to complete the encoding again. So I moved all the files to my other, much slower, single processor computer. It has even less hard drive space on the C drive, only about 20 GB total, and an even older ATI All-in-Wonder video card. Guess what, it took it a while, but it completed the encoding process on that computer.

So, can someone tell me what that means about my newer, faster computer. Why will it not work?

Thanks.

Mark

Don't really think that's it. I cleared off as much as I could on my fast quad-core computer's C drive, which I think gave me between 30 and 40 GB of free space that I defragmented. I still had the problems mentioned above. The encoding will not complete on this computer.

The reason I'm pretty sure it's not related to hard drive space is, when I moved the project to my slow, single-core computer, that has a 60 GB C drive with only 10 GB free and not defragmented, it processed and encoded fine ... albeit very slow.

So, what gives with my faster computer. Anybody?

Mark

Bill,

I'm still not willing to give up just yet. I read back over one of you message where you said to write down exact error messages I'm getting. Sometimes it just crashes without warning or message, but here are a few error messages I have gotten:

1. Desktop Display MOde has been reset because the video card returned an error.

2. The following effect failed to render: Image Control (sometimes it will be some other effect).

3. Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library: Runtime Error! Program:\Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0\Adobe Premiere Elements.exe abnormal program termination.

4. Running very low on system memory.

5. Basic 3D cannot allocate a buffer larger than 30,000 pixels in either dimension.

These happened in a project with no video, except for what was exported out of Premiere for editing in Premiere.

Thanks.

Mark