Memory Problems Unique to one Project
Susan Verner Jun 14, 2010 7:59 PMI have received so much help here in the past I am hopeful this time too....
I just finished editing hours and hours of my son's high school lacrosse video with almost no problems, or at least no problems I couldn't solve using tips I've learned here before. I burned individual game DVDs for the coach. I produced a highlight reel comprised of over a hundred video clips. I made a slide show of the season with still photos...again all with no major problems.
Now today, I was given some video from a friend on a flash drive that I am trying to use in a PE8 project and I can't get past the first few minutes without constant crashing. The flash drive has 10-30 second video clips that are much smaller than the lacrosse footage I was working with. When I get 10 or so clips in the timeline and put in some titles I get the "system low..." message when I load the project. When I try to add another title or more footage the system either freezes or crashes. Also, some video clips become unlinked and show up with that red frame with different languages. And PE8 won't let me load some of the clips saying that they are the wrong format, yet they are the same format as the others. I can't figure out what is unique about this video that is causing these problems. Or, what is clogging the PE8 memory.
I made sure I have the most up to date version of PE8 today. I also updated my Quicktime software. When neither of those things made a difference, I tried starting over today, deleting everything. Then I defragmented my hard disk. After that I loaded the video again and started a new project. But I got the same result. I tried using a System Restore to an earlier date when I was working with ease on the other stuff, but that didn't work either. I tried increasing the virtual memory; again, no change.
When the system crashes I check the task manager and see that the only a small percentage of RAM is being used.
The video I am trying to work with is in .avi format, which I have worked with before.
I am able to load and edit the lacrosse projects even now with no problems.
Any ideas/suggestions?



