PROBLEM:
Premiere 5.5 crashes spontaneously. Could be on import, when cutting, or watching the source feed. Doesn't matter. Sometimes it works with the footage for up to 5 min, sometimes it crashes immediately on load.
WHAT I'M DOING:
The files I'm editing have been converted over from AVIs (which Adobe seems to reject) to MP4 with the H.264 compression. The conversation was nearly loss-less, with no changes to frame rates, aspect, audio channels, nothing. Just weeding out whatever codec/container Adobe seems to reject. I have seen that the Media Cache files are always ever-increasing. With only 2 GB of footage in the timeline, the cache is over 40 GB (most of the files already being DELETED from the timeline). "Cleaning" the Cache does not remove the files, either. Adobe just keeps swelling up like a balloon. However, this does not affect my system as it was designed to be idiotic-program-proof. However, it's still crashing. The system is never close to overheating, overclocking, or filling up on RAM. All hardware is running perfectly. Since I'm used to FCP 7, I'm used to editing unrendered files on the fly, so most of the footage is unrendered at any given time. One file in particular, whose presence increased the rate of crashing to an absurd amount, has 6 audio channels (so, 6 tracks). Can Adobe even handle more than 2? (and if not, why are more than 2 tracks available?)
I've been editing on FCP 7 on Macs for years, knowing Premiere 4 and below to only be handle up to about maybe 2 MBs worth of footage before crashing. I was tricked into buying PP 5.5 for my PC, being told it had finally advanced up to par with FPC 7. I see now that was a gross exaggeration, however I need to make this program stable to satisfy a few outstanding contracts.
SYTEM SPECS:
Win7 Ultimate 64-bit
Intel i5 CPU
16GB Memory
Nvidia GTX 560ti GPU
128GB SSD (for OS and programs)
1TB SATA (scratch disc and media)
With the exception of paying more money to Adobe, is there any way I can make my system stabile enough to handle the morbid obesity of Adobe Premiere 5.5?
WINDOWS CRASH REPORT:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
Application Version: 5.5.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4d8a89e8
Fault Module Name: ImageRenderer.dll
Fault Module Version: 5.5.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4d8a7063
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00000000001756df
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: d922
Additional Information 2: d922b4a2cf4e926b618d53a3e85bdfb3
Additional Information 3: 7afb
Additional Information 4: 7afbfca33cdab82603d956b30f895d74
All input is much appreciated.