Adobe Premiere CS4 crashes with larger projects
Set-up:
I'm running a fast machine (i7CPU 920@2.67 GHz - it has 4 cores) with lots of ram (12 gig) on a cleanly installed system 7, nothing else running in the background at this point). Three hard drives - main application drive (640 gig) and two raid 0 1 tB drives for video storage.) My graphics card is a GeForce GTX 260. I have updated all computer drivers and am running newest version of adobe CS4 (4.21).
Problem:
Whenever a project gets to a certain size (say 50-80 clips) my computer freezes. I don't have the problem on smaller projects - but when I get near a threashold it continually freezes. My clips are HD files (1080p and the source files can be between 30 and 50 gigs on larger projects). I don'tbelieve it is a corruption or caompatibility problem as it only happens on larger projects. Same problem happened on Vista as well - don't think it's a windows issue.
Questions:
1. Is there an optimum set-up / configuration for CS4 ( i thought I was close - but obviously I'm not) to account ofr larger files.
2. Any idea why premiere craps out (freezes - mothing happens) on larger projects.
3. Is there a known limit for premiere (I seem to have found it) for either number of clips, size of clips or anything else.
4. Is this unique to PC - I havn't heard of this problem on macs.
5. Is there somewhere you can pay for premiere tech support?
thanks in advance for your help.
