3 Replies Latest reply: Sep 5, 2011 1:41 PM by JSS1138 RSS

    Project size / Import sequence

    Danielpremiere Community Member

      Hi everyone,

       

      I'm using Premiere Pro CS3 and Matrox Axio LE hardware (Windows XP SP2, 32bit). I'm currently working on a large project, which is a recording of three live music concerts. These concerts were, in total, about 9 hours duration, (2.5 hours, 4 hours and 2.5 hours) and I have multiple layers of footage from 5 ISO cameras. I also have within this project (in separate sequences) approx 5 hours of addional footage, (General views etc.) which will be used as bonus material. Although I have worked on projects of near this size before, the amount of colour correction, and editing is probably higher than before.

       

      The problem is, I am very frequently receiving messages from my Axio hardware that the Memory usage is very high, and I need to save my project immediately, quit and restart Premiere.

       

      It's useful to have it all in one project, as I'm producing DVDs of all three concerts, and a Complete highlights package. However, I don't think I can continue like this. I am doubting whether just splitting the "major" sequences (i.e. each concert) down into smaller ones would help (so that I have only, say, one hour of the concert in a sequence - rather than the whole thing), but will probably have to split the project into 4 for each concert and one for the highlights.

       

      Any advice on this would be welcomed.

       

      I have currently finished editing the first concert, but some way off the completing the rest of the project and I can only see the PrPro filesize growing (it's currently approx 230 MB)

       

      However, if I do this, my other question is - am I able to, at a later stage - if I should wish to do so, import simply a sequence from one project into another with all the editing intact?

       

      I could probably manage with just the final render of each concert in the "highlights" version, but it would be useful to know if you can import a sequence from one project into another.

       

      I am due an upgrade to CS5 soon, so hopefully this will help for future projects!

       

      Thanks for any advice

      Daniel