this has really explained a lot.  thanks it makes me wonder now, if certain cameras 4k footage may be,  in a way, worse than the HD footage, unless the camera can also record the 4k at a higher bitrate ... View more

i understand yes, its my job to know.   BUT premiere did guess a bit rate of 10 to begin with, so if ,as you say the bit rate MUST be increased as we increase the resolution,  in order to prevent a reduction in quality, then i would have imagined that premiere would increase it automatically as i increased the resolution to maintain the same quality. i dont really need  small file size, i basically want a master copy of the film,  the best quality i can get. then i will do smaller copies for online use etc. where i can work at a reduced bit rate 20 seems to look pretty good at 4k its made using sony A7sii camera. ... View more

oh right, sorry i was talking about bit rate, not bit depth but premiere defaults to a bit rate of 10 regardless of weather im exporting at 4k or HD so you are saying that i should manually increase it for higher resolutions,  which i did by the way, (to 20)and it seems to look better but how do i know what is the ideal bit rate for any given video if premiere doesnt do it automatically? ... View more

1920 x 1080 vs 3840 x 2160 ... View more

ok, i created proxys for the whole project,  there may be a small improvement in playback, but it still wont play back too easily. not what i would expect for 1024 -540 proxys i moved the proxy folder onto my internal SSD C drive to see if this makes any difference but no. for the record. i have all adsjustment layers and overlays switched off, so as to make the playback easier. i copied and pasted the parts into a new sequence.  the crashing continues. as soon as i begin to get stuck in, it goes down. i do tend to save these projects under multiple names, however it is not possible to go back to a previous save which may not have the problem, because i think the problem goes back too far. ... View more

just a quick update im using a ssd drive now, connect to usb 3,  deleted all the render files. and created a new project and just imported the sequence from the old project. the crashing continues. so i went back to the old project and exported a XML and opened a new project to import it.   the project crashed before it even was able to import it, so i gave up. this is killing my workflow, and the film is going to be screened in 10 days time in a local film festival. at this point  im lucky if i can move a clip in the timeline before it crashes again. one thing i noticed is that when i try to "mute" (click the eye icon to turn off a video track) on 3 tracks one after the other i get a guaranteed crash from premiere every time. another thing i noticed is that playback has difficulty even with all of the video turned off and only the audio working.  often times i will click play and nothing will happen, and i need to wait a while before i press play again, and quite a lot of those times, it will indeed crash too. it is safe to say that my moral is at an all time low now. i have one last card to play, and that is to create low res proxy files for all the 4k video. i will report back with the results ... View more

yea, i guess you can call this an internal drive but it will work the same right? as long as i have a SATA to USB cable.  or not? ... View more

i bought this    ... View more

my SSD drive arrived today, it is a SATA connection what is the best way to connect this to my laptop,  will the USB port be a a bottleneck? ... View more

i really dont feel this is a pc vs mac issue i was just using my laptop last week on a tv show, and it was running along side a mac pro,  and in all cases it was running better, faster etc. its an overall bigger machine 17".   and with higher specs than i think you can get on any macbook to date (at least that was the case 1 year ago when i bought it) its just this project, for some reason seems to either have a bug, or its hitting some limit in the computer, that is causing problems. it is a 450 GB project which has been worked on and off for 1 year, through a few different updates of premiere,  although, it seems to only crash when i perform certain tasks like copying and pasting stuff, or doing cross fades, or beginning to export  and im beginning to suspect that it is also only in certain parts of the timeline. ill try and delete render files to see if it helps. i bought a 500GB SSD also to see how that goes. would it be possible that there is some cache file that is too small and need to be increased? ... View more

what speed should the SSD be? ... View more

ah ! found it. Averdahl i would hug you if i could !   thanks i dont know why, but  "prp" was giving me a lot of projects results in the search, which threw me off ... View more

when i search .prp  i find a lot of different premiere projects, but not the one i am looking for. ... View more

thanks,  i dont have that quicktime in the drop down menu.... ... View more

i tried importing a whole folder full of files to premiere, and it imported them fine.   (the same files that gave me this error when trying to import  them individually) ... View more

same problem here,  the files are not .mov   some of them are mp4. there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it,  because some files from a drone camera are opening, other files from the same drone are not opening. same issue across after effects, premiere and media encoder. if a file wont open in one of them it wont open in any of them. looks like a bug to me ... View more

thanks very much rick one other related question if i do a camera track, and afterwards i realise its too short, and i need to camera track another part of the clip.  is it possible  without starting over and losing all my work up until that point? ... View more

i downloades this http://www.userbenchmark.com/ and here is what it told me http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/8208129 premiere Pro crashes routinely now (on the current project anyways) basically every time i do anything, no matter ho big or small, i save the project.  its hard to fathom how i can go forward like this. the hybrid drive is not being used for my current project,  all of the data is on my external usb drive 2TB  "passsport" could it be due to some corrupt media files in the project or smoething like that ? ... View more

3D i have no security software other than windows built in services, i turned that off briefly and premiere crashed already within 5 minutes. 4D i am pretty good with this, i also use my laptop for DJ work, and it has always been my policy to keep the laptop clean no games or any other trivial software.  just the stuff i need for my work. premiere has crashed now, twice since i opened it 15 minutes ago. it has become insufferable now at this point. ... View more