You were on to the right path with changing it in the sequence settings to the frame size you wanted;  At that point use the "transform" effect to scale the clip to the frame (zoom the video clip, it will probably be somethign like 350% based on my memory of those frame sizes), then export it.     Your other option is download Topaz Video Enhance AI, and let it upscale.  It does a very good job, but it can take hours if not days.  Fast and free way works / noted above. ... View more

Thans Kevin, I went and voted 🙂 ... View more

I would love to see premier get a background save that doesnt stall the system and get rid of the popup, it should all be passive (like MS office does these days).  I find the issue is very bad when you use warp stabilize as that autosave can be 5 or more minutes with lots of stabilized footage.   I have not had the 'not respoding' thing happen.  I wonder if that happens when windows thinks its crashes because the save takes too long?   are you saving to a SSD/NVME or mechancial drive?  (maybe it doesnt matter).  I work on multiple nvme, (project files different than cache, different than source and different from previews, still takes a log time to save/auto save but no lockups from that). ... View more

Kevin Has adobe considered adding a process to clear the media cache and all the basic trouble shooting we ask users to do?  As a suggestion, maybe adobe can clear the cache on every update or at the very least at the very first startup or last step of install, give the user a dialog box asking for permission? (If we go this way a preferance setting to clear without asking would be ideal as I would be fine with that).   I've never had to do it, but I so often see this advice and it works, that maybe it should just be part of the upgrade process going forward. ... View more

Your key frames look correct for the result you described. Not sure I have a helpfull answer for you, as what your doing appears to be correct, but I can offer some advice, which may also be a workaround for you in case it is a bug.   Have you tried using the "transform" effect that is under the "distort" effects tab.  I find that it works better, supports motion blur and the math it uses for scaling appears to be better (if you use Bicubic).      I just checked and the standard 'motion' scaling works for me, so its appears to not be a bug in the 15.0 version.   if you cant solve this, try using the transform effects for your scaling, in general, transform works better, you may find you also like it better and make the switch anyways.         ... View more

I just found this video from Jason Levine: https://youtu.be/6orvfNe6wkw?t=3163   I set the link direct to the warp stabilze part of the video;  he seems to run into issues also;  I'm even more convinced these are bugs in Warp Stabilize now. ... View more

Kevin; I suggested this as a area to focus his testing back on Nov 23rd,  he replied that he tested it and it made no difference.  I had commented that was a surpise as the utlization percentages should in fact change when you make the change to CPU decode.   I am delighted that Adobe (I assume) is seeing some evidence of this slow down effect and can attribute at least some of the cases to the choice in decoder (CPU/GPU) as you indicated.   Seems like an edge case as when I tested it, there variance was not 5x but rather very small percentages.  I am wondering if certain video cards / drivers combinations are more effected than others, do you have additional technical insights?   With that said,  I hope that with the percise suggestion you provided it yeilds some results for those affected.  My interest is further peaked in the hopes that Adobe might look into a tool to evaluate which systems it could recomend which setting to use for best results.  I have left my system on GPU encode/decode as its very rare that I can spike both encode/decode to 100% each, if I have a long render, and I see that, I stop it and switch to CPU decode and it is faster (but not 5x).   Thanks for the follow through on this topic. ... View more

Workign after a downgrade is what I was thinkign would happen.  I will be watching the change logs to see if this get addressed in a future update.  The faster process for warp is helpful, but I think what your seeing is a minor bug that needs to be addressed. ... View more

Ok, strange for sure. When I try it and export it, it exports exactly as I see it in the preview, even after I move the frame so it fits better. I am not sure why yours is not.  I am concerned wondering why "stabilize only" doesnt center the frame, liek ti does whe you center and crop?  Maybe thats is intentional, but seems like it should be centered anyway.   I still suspect an error in how it calculates "stabilize only" - to me it should be exactly like stabilzie and crop, but with out the crop part, and for sure they are not the same.   I will watch this thread for replies so see how this works out for you.  I have ben playing with it and I cant duplicate that your seeing on export.  Is there any other setting your using that might be related in the export?   Also,  what version are you usign of AME and Premier?  I assume the same matching versions?  I also assume your saving the project before exporting with AME?  I dont think you have to, but I am wondering if AME is loading an older version fo the project file to export?  ... View more

@RobotPirateMedia Could there be somethign wrong with Warp Stabilizer?  I tried the settings (if I followed your note correct) and I get misaligned video in the preview right away.     If I want the video to end up in the center I have to turn on the Stabilize and Crop I dont use the warp often, and seldom with the settings you indicated, however I was not expecting the clip to be mis-aligned like the first picture provided here (seems to match what your media encoder shows).    If I manual shift the image using the "motion" position, I can get it center (rough as its done by eye).   I dont know what is causing your issue, but to me it feels like a bug in the way warp stabilize handles the anchore point calculation when you choose the borders/framing to stabilize only.  Every other mode I tried, the frame centers proper for me.  What I see varies from you is that I see the effect right away, and you see it on export.   I will qualify this with, I dont recall what this same settings looked like before my work with them just now (I tend to use mocha for stabilize) so not as much experaince as you likly have with it, maybe you and can confirm if this expected.  Either way, you not seeing it until exports is an issue, it should be what you see is what you get.   This is the version I am using 15.0.0 Build 41.       ... View more

That great news!  an easy fix is ideal, Kevin has probably seen everything possible go wrong, and how to fix it.  Pretty smart guy...  Please mark his response as "correct" if you have not already.   As for the memory, if its 'affordable, it will be worth it (32GB or less, dont go crazy unless its cheap).  But, if it was workign good before, dont worry too much.  As they add stuff to premier, you may need it, and you might sneak in a bit of speed if you do.   But at the end of the day, if your happy with the speed, they avoid spending the cash. ... View more

In addition to what Kevin suggested here is some things to consisder when workign from a laptop;   First, can you elborate on the dropped frames?  does it only happen when you start to play video, then it stops or all the time?      1) Turn off windows power management, put it into high performance mode, not balanced, not power saver etc.  Often when you plug in your laptop to the power suppy, it will switch to performance mode, but not always.  Being that is a gaming laptop ( i had to look it up, never heard of it). it should be designed to run in performance mode, but never assume.   2) The memory, 16GB to be honest is sketchy.  Can you get at least 32GB in there?   3) video cards for laptops are not the same as for a desktop, despite the model numbers.  They are designed (as you indicated by the 110w) to run cooler, which is less power draw, which is less performance.  I dont think your issues are related to the video card, but check settings for it.  I know I have settings for my desktop Nvidia for performance mode, balanced etc.     4) Do your Bios/driver updates and windows updates.  Often these updates can improve performance for things likly choppy playback.   5) make sure there is no pending windows updates, if there is complete them and restart (shuting down is not as good a a restart, always restart - its counter intititive but always use restart when installng or changing software).   The other suggestions like a seperate drive fro your video projects are also solid.  The OS tends to have lots of little reads / writes to the drive that can interupt the smooth playback of video.  Also; same companies use a lower performance NVME drive, you didnt mention what you model you had, so a higher quality one might be a really big help to fix the choppy play back.   Also; with 16GB of memory, I assume you system page file (swaping of memory to disk) is active, and this will contribute to challanges of playing back video without dropped frames.   The other issue that can occur, and its not thought of often, is the SSD/NVME drives have a max amount of writes (measures in TB), then the drive starts to slow down dramaticaly.  I cant tell how old your laptop or drive is, but there is often tools from the manafacture that will allow you to measure these effects.   Overall, that system should work...  however, if you can upgrade the memory, conisder that step.   ... View more

I am suspect that your playback performance is laggy because of the parts of the video you are not using.  Based on the workflow you described, I suspect its laggy because your speeding it up by 800%.  This is make it laggy;   Try and render the preview, this should fox the laggy timeline performance.  the other option(s) are to export the video you have already speedup, and import then back (place them over the original) in your timeline.   if you truely belive the laggy response is from the extra video, you can use the project manager feature in Premier to export the project, which will trim down the videos to only the parts you used, if thats what you want.  There is tons of settings in that feature to get it to export only the parts you used,  You may want to find a youtube video on how that feature works if you feel you need it.   ... View more

There is no such rule for 15 seconds of use.  If you want to legal term you are looking for, search for "fair use". At the end of the day, be carefull,  you can end up with a great deal of legal expeses from the assuming that 15 seconds falls under fair use.   Here is a VERY brief overview,  it will give you an idea what your in for: Fair Use - YouTube   ... View more

So, very exciting to get the feature update...  do you know what version number to expect it to arrive in (outside of the beta)?   ... View more

Also this should be good help to you: Aspect Ratio Cheat Sheet — Firehouse Creative (wearethefirehouse.com)   You will notice if you device the 21:9  (ie =21/9 you get 2.3333 ) that will give you a clue as to how the numbers translate back and forth.  The link above does an excellent job with common frame size and aspect rations, and shows you the decimal (for example 2.3333) and the ratio numbers so you can decode it better;   I'm not sure if there is a better answer for you, I've never worked in that ratio, Its more than likely you will need to wait for a better answer from one of the more experienced people here. ... View more

Lots of choices, but the best is this: Mocha Pro: Tips for Faster, Better Object Removals - YouTube   Spend a few bucks, its worth it. ... View more

Please walk us through the issue;   You statement that it reboots everytime you use premier, is lacks in details.   Does it reboot when you start premier (if so when, while loading premier, or while opening a project etc).   Does it reboot when playing the timeline?  or exporting?  apply effect (if so which one).   I dont know exactly what video card you have as I always use Nvidia for Adobe products;  but here is an interesting obersavation.  You CPU is a little power hungry and the video card appears to be also   I did some quick math and that CPU uses about 150w + the video cards appears to be 200W.  Thats 350W just for the CPU and Video card, pkus what ever else you havign running, it SHOULD be fine, if you have say one or two Hard Drives.  I personaly dont liek to run much past 60% if I can avoid it, and you might be around that.   Do you get a reset in any other applications?  like video games?  or bench marks?  try and download some bench mark tooks (lots of free ones out there) and see if you can get the system to reset when its not Premier.   Also, update ALL your drivers, Bios/Firmware etc.  Just becuase its new, doesnt mean the builder did any of that for you. they almost never do.  You are on the latest windows and premier, but update the Motherboard Bios, and if you have SSD/NVME update firmware for them and thier drivers (Samsung has a good tool for this called Magician if you are runnign samsung drives).   Depending on how your reset happens, it could be many things.  This is why more details around exactyl when that happens would help.    I once had a issue  few years back that when the memory was in XMP mode (overclocked) it would hard restart when ever I put stress on the memory.  I turned off XMP it worked fine.  1 year of messing around with, replace the ram it always had the issues.  I then purchased a new mother board and the problem went away.   So, in your case, please be more specifc on what your doing when it restarts, if its always the same thing that causes it to lock.  Confirm you have updated your firmware/bios etc for ALL hardware in the machine.   I looked up the specs for that power supply, it looks like a pretty low end bronze rated TR2 600W Bronze (thermaltake.com)   That is a power supply I would never buy.  Its too entry level (might be fine, but not for me).   Depending on what you say next, and because that machine is now, I would ask them to upgrade that power supply for you to a 800 watt at least Gold, Platinum if you.  I would for sure have a UPS pluged it at at the very least.   In some cities/countries power can get too low and cause computer chips to lock up.  a UPS will allow you to level out the power to the system, and avoid lots of issues, however, make sure you good UPS, they are not too expesive:   UPS Buying Guide: Battery backup for uninterrupted power. - APC Canada   Without more info its hard to say what your root/real issue is, but based on the quick look at your hardware my first area of concern is the power supply.  Since the machine is new, you should be able to show who ever built it, and get them to solve it.  Premier might be stressing your hardware just enough to reboot it, but its not likly a premier software problem.   ... View more

I just downloaded the latest version 1.9.0 and it now has specific VHS + DVD upscale, with de interlace.  I dont have that footage  hanging around, but this will be helpfull.     As a side note, I have a project I decided to redo the the 480i to 4k conversation.  The new Engines were improved so much, that that the 5 days this project takes to redo to conversation is work it...    Really nice improvement of late with that tool. ... View more

The version numbers you provided are not version numbers but marketing names;   In windows Command prompt (or in the place next to the star menu that says "Type here to search"), type "winver" without the quotes....  you will see something like this popup.  There are hundreds of versions of Windows 10 Pro   In your Creative Cloud Desktop, you will see the version of Premier; it looks like this:     ... View more

I agree its looking better! You can now start to go crazy on it if you want...  there are lots of other tricks to improve it even more, but you have done the heavy lifting now....   Like Sharpen and noise reduction (Neat Video is popular).   I will say, if you want to try something, now that this is a 4k timeline.  If you export your final project to 1080p it will actually look a even a little better yet (but it will be 1080p).  You can try a few min of video, and see if you like it but you do give up the 4k however.   Overall, I think you have done a great job reading past my bad spelling, and long descriptions.  You have removed Interlacing, mastered the upscale and many other skills.  It looks much better now!   Hopefully you can continue your work and focus on the creative vs the technical.  This is actually Adobe mission, but the program has so many options to do the same things, with different results....   If you are doing projects like this often, and you need better results than what you go there, that Topaz software is really good.  I have used it on personal projects - 20 year old footage - and it was worth every penny...  But, as you can tell, you can get very usable results just with Premier.   As a pro tip, I would never use the scale, position that's the default for clips (See screen shot below)     The transform effect you just used is the preferred way.   The only time I use the default (above) motion / position / is to set it once, and never move it.  But if I have to scale, I ALWAYS use the Distort/Transform.  if you stick to this approach, it will serve you well into the future as it supports motion blur etc and much more versatile.  Frankly, I have no idea why Adobe keeps that default position/scale around, it should be replaced with the Distort/Transform.   At the end of the day,  Thanks for sticking with my rambles/spelling...  I trust you achieved what you were looking for and learned a few things along the way!   ... View more

Ok, so your on the right track with that smaller picture inside the bigger video frame.  I assume that sample is from the output you created in Handbrake, thats deinterlaced?  if so, continue to use that.  Also,  I assume the timeline you created is 4k based on how small that picture is inside the timeline.     To get that picture bigger in the frame using the built in tools of premier,  apply the "transform" effect, the one that appears under the title of "distort" in premier.   The one highlited here in this pitcure:   Once you do that, edit the effect thats been applied to the clip, and you will see a window that looks like there.  There is two things you need to change.    Change the scale number, which should read as 100% to a bigger number, until it fills the entire video frame.  It probably a number around 400%, but you may have try a few different ones.  The varible is the "samples", I would change it to "bicubic", it defaults to "bilinear".   These changes will  leverage premiers built in scale up, and will give you good results.   When you do this, and export, the output should be better.   If you want to get fancy, you can add a noise remove filter etc, but thats up to you.   If you happy with it thus far, you can stop here (most people do).   As for Topaz.  if you wan to try that,  take the footage you deinterlaced from Handbrake, and import it into Topaz,   In Topaz, there is a bunch of settings for the type of scalign it does,  for now, leave it at the default one.  In the middle of the right hand screen, you will see this dialog:   In the "settings" dislog, select the output size you want.  For your workflow, go ahead and pick 4K, leave the check box for Crop to fill frame off if you want,  you and click it and the live preview will show it what it does.       In the "Save Result" pick MP4, like the screen shoot, Check off keep Audio, pick your file save location.  Pick a compression factor.  I always use 5, which makes really big files, so I suggest you try 10 which will be smaller and work just fine.   On the top right of that screen shot you will see an icon with an 'eye' inside a camera, you can click on that to preview a few seconds of your settings applied to the footage you imported.    If you dont like the result, try different "AI Models" and see which is best for your footage.   If you export the video from Topaz, import that back into a new project, put it on a new timeline and those settings should match to the video Topaz created.    Then work with the file as normal.  Your 15% zoom should look fine on this 4k footage.   You also have the option of takign that 4k footage you created, and when you create a new timeline in Premier,  make that new timeline a 1080p one.  Place the Topaz 4k footage into that time line.  It will be bigger than than the time line, so you will need to scale it down 50% to fully fit, but now when you scale it, you will scale the 50% to take 65% and it will retain all the detail it possible can inside that 1080p timeline.   The simpliest way, that will likly get you results that are more than acceptable is the using what was described for the premier way, which the transform effect.    I know this sounds more complex than maybe it needs to be...  apologies for that.  But stick with me,  once you do this, the next time, you need it it will seem really easy to you. ... View more

Ok some good news,  from what I can see, you don't having any of the interlacing artifacts in that sample (The full frame size one).    As for Bit rate, you don't "have" to use 7.5/5.0 - you can use you 12 or what ever you were using before.  The file will  be bigger, but there is more room for higher quality, and you will reduce the compression artifacts.  There is a balance between size an quality, harder to explain, then apply, so in your case, anything over 7.5 will be fine (those where suggested).   So the good news is, it appears you were able to deinterlace.     Topaz doesn't deinterlce, handbrake (which I keep forgetting about) does deinterlace.  Topaz will ONLY do upscaling.  I see you have another post with question about upscale, so I will answer this part in that thread for you.     But this footage looks better already. ... View more

Okay lots of answers in that list;  Your source footage is in fact interlaced, in the screen shot you provided you will see it say "lower field first", that's a type of interlacing.  I would suggest you apply a de-interlace (or consider it);  Apply this effect BEFORE others.   Chance your sequence settings so its not a interlaced sequence also, or you will not be able to de-interlace it;  This step will be very important to remove some of the 'blur' especialy in places where there is movement on the frame (technicaly the 'blur' from interlacing is called combing btw).   the 115% zoom is not a big concern but with this source footage its likly contributing to your blur also.  When you start video of your original source quality, it will magnify flaws.  I would suggest if you can in your settings,  try and change the transform setting for zoom to BiCubic and see how it works for you, its often better results, but not always.   As for bit rate;  I was assuming your 4K output.  the following chart is a good reference for different format and bit rates upto 1080p if you have not seen this before.   Type Video Bitrate, Standard Frame Rate (24, 25, 30) Video Bitrate, High Frame Rate (48, 50, 60) 1080p 8 Mbps 12 Mbps 720p 5 Mbps 7.5 Mbps 480p 2.5 Mbps 4 Mbps 360p 1 Mbps 1.5 Mbps   I treat the above as the lowest,  so your rates are actually very good for this, maybe even high as toyr between 480p and 720p.  (based on the screen shoot I saw)  Based on your frame size, the system will not let you pick the rates I suggested, they are for 4K).   So and the end of all of this,  I believe what I am seeing for the 'blurry' in your video is a combination of low frame size, zoomed up, and interlaced footage.  Its possible to improve the output with a deinterlace (but dont forgot to use a deinterlaced sequence setting) and a little better upscale and if you can use less zoom.  15% on 4k is not too bad, but with your source footage it is a bigger impact.   Keep in mind that because you have interlaced footage your vertical res is only half of that 576.   Another few things you can try to improve that output is to apply a noise remove filter (you have a little bit of compression artifacts and noise.   Noise Remove can add lots of processing time (be warned).  I think some people also smooth out the compression and noise by apply a slight Gaussian blur  (I think people use 3%).  It will soften the picture, but some people enjoy that look, it reduced the pixelation you see with compression artificacts.   There is ways to make even bigger improvement to the quality using Topaz Labs Video Enhance AI, if this footage is really important to you, try thier download trial edition and see if its work the several hundred for you.     With that said,  I think you will find deinterlacing, a marked improvement, tweek with noise removal or the blur for a bit more, and try to lower the zoom level.  I can see the combing from your interlaced video in her hair where there is a strand off to the side against the wall, on the neclace etc.  With motion, this will get much worse,  if you properly fix the interlacing issue it will make the biggest impact.  There are better ways than the built in tools in premier to deinterlace, but try the free included tools first.  If thats not enough improvement, post a seperate question here if you dotn already find a post about this.  ... View more

When your exporting, can you open up task manager and check how much video memory and how busy your GPU/CPU are?   I did a quick test just now, and the same blur you have set to 3%, and a transform zoom Bicubic at 500%, the GPU memory seems to be used significantly:     If I remove the Transform effect GPU memory drops:   Specs for your video card say it has 8GB of memory.  Is it possible that the video memory is what slows your processing down.  I notice a slow down when I tried it,  but its not one I would be concerned with at all.  I don't have that 'Embiggen" plug in, its possible its doing more to slow this down even further.   As a side note, if I wanted a quick 'ken burns effect' for photos,  I don't apply the effect to the clip, I create an adjustment layer and then paste the adjustment layer on top of every clip I want a zoom or other effects, make once, use many....  However for this purpose of the test I did here, I placed it directly on the clip.   If I use the 3% blur + 500% Bicubic Transform this is the Log file/Time: 01/21/2021 12:20:42 PM : Queue Started - Output File: Z:\Delete When Ready\Scale export all 500 DJI_0016_1.mp4 - Preset Used: TK YouTube 2160p 4K Ultra HD - Video: 3840x2160 (1.0), 29.97 fps, Progressive, Hardware Encoding, Nvidia Codec, 00:01:00:00 - Audio: AAC, 320 kbps, 48 kHz, Stereo - Bitrate: VBR, 1 pass, Target 65.00 Mbps - Encoding Time: 00:00:52 01/21/2021 12:21:35 PM : File Successfully Encoded 01/21/2021 12:21:35 PM : Queue Stopped   If I take away the BiCubic and do no zoom, here is the log entry for your reference: 01/21/2021 12:23:28 PM : Queue Started - Output File: Z:\Delete When Ready\Scale export all 100 DJI_0016.mp4 - Preset Used: TK YouTube 2160p 4K Ultra HD - Video: 3840x2160 (1.0), 29.97 fps, Progressive, Hardware Encoding, Nvidia Codec, 00:01:00:00 - Audio: AAC, 320 kbps, 48 kHz, Stereo - Bitrate: VBR, 1 pass, Target 65.00 Mbps - Encoding Time: 00:00:27 01/21/2021 12:23:56 PM : File Successfully Encoded 01/21/2021 12:23:56 PM : Queue Stopped   So basically, 27 seconds climbs to 52 when I add the 500% Bicubic Zoom to the footage across the full 1min sample.  Percentage wise that's almost double, but overall still really quick.  I kept the 3% blur on both samples.   If your seeing something out of line to this, and based on what I saw for GPU memory use, your video card might in a significant contributor.  I have a RTX 3090 btw for your reference when looking at my posted results.   3080 is a incredible graphics cards,  hard to get, and I think they are doing an updated version, so maybe wait a bit.  Puget Systems has really nice reports on how effective video cards are fro Premier too, check those out before you buy one. ... View more

I can confirm if you install/have runnign the Creativbe Cloud Desktop App, and signed in, I have never had to sign back, for years.... ... View more

Can you please post a picture of one frame of video.  There is several kinds of "blurry" and each has its own way to resolve.  if you want to try something (But I would wait for advice after you post your video frame sample) there is few things that jump out as possible without seeing the blurry video frame for myself.  (There is a picture icon when you create a reply that allows you to attach a photo).   1) You have an AVI @ 576 this to me means its likely an interlaced video.  If so some people might call that blurry when they export, because it has the effect of appearing like your looking through horizontal blinds.  Premier seems to play them back fine int he preview window, but combined with an export it sometimes looks really bad.  When we see your still frame, we will know what it is.   2) The bit rate you used on the export is too low.  if that's the case, it will look like lego bricks to different degree's depending on how low the bit rate used was.   Combined with frame size of the export (and upscaling) it will also play a  role in the 'blur' - please specify the bit rates you used also.  If your exporting 4K I try to not go under 50k unless I have a specific reason.  if you are using VBR, I tend to set the max to 60/65 and and the target to like 45/50 (I adjust based on how much noise is in the video and movement, both of which need more bit rate to improve display quality).   3) What frame size is your export.  If you are for example, exporting that 576i vertical, and trying to get it to scale up to a 2160p, and not doing anything about the type of upscale you are using, the video will also be blurry.  The work around that's "suitable" is to create a 4k time line, and put your lower frame size video on it.  Use the "transform" filter under the "distort" heading (NOT the scaling you see by default on every clip) and scale it up to fit the frame.  There is an option on type of scaling (which is the quality of the math used).   And the quality and type of upscale:     Some type of graphics images work better or worse with the different "Sampling" settings, which is why they are both presented.   This will improve dramatically the quality for the upscale for exporting in 4K (or high than what you started) but its not a miracle worker.    The reason why when you play an old AVI file in media player and it looks okay is typically Media player is handling that de-interlace and doing this scaling for you, and often, people don't scale up the video, they watch it at its defaults 1:1 pixel size.   As a side note, if scaling is your issue, and you want remarkable results purchase Topaz Video Enhance AI and it will work small miracles for you.  BUT be warned, it doesn't work on Interlaced video either so you have to deal with that.     ... View more

@AveryMiller yeah, the process is not going well...  I have a 95% complet replica copy I beam over to a second site using a microwave disk 25KM aways, so just trying to sync the last bit of data before I make the decision to delete the array, and built a new logical array, and then replicate the copy back to my work site (the microwave is WAY to slow for working off).  The replication will take about 2.5 weeks is the issue, the rebuild was to take 80 hours...  but now the raid card vendor is saying it could be a month.   As for your graphics card;  I would really do the driver clean I linked earlier, and the bios update.  Delete your render cache and all that all before you reload the project again for editing.    I found an old post here in the forum that to my untrained eye seems to be 'kinda' like what your seeing here.   Solved: Error Code: -1609629690 Accelerated Renderer Error - Adobe Support Community - 10473212   My quick read of the thread, it seemed to have some good ideas in there.  The one that struck me as relevent was the size of the video memory on the graphics card.  But there was a few other gems in there.  I had to look the specs up (pasted below) and that card only has 4GB of memory.  I was a little surpised as I didnt think they made cards with less than 8GB.  If the video memory turns out to be the issue its goign to very hard to fix on a laptop (maybe an external eGPU, but if you have to do that I would buy a new laptop).   This thread I shared, also went into "smart render" as a workaround if memory serves me correct, I read so many now I may be wrong on that.   If you load that on another machine you have, it woudl really shed some light on the problem.  I would suggest that you try and use a machien with 8GB of memory.  I read somewhere that each 4k video frame needed 4GB of memory.....   https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-Notebook.168400.0.html    ... View more