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Regarding your comment below - I upgraded to Production Suite CS4 and am seeing a lot of crashes with CS4; I've probably had 100 already. About half get sent back to Adobe and almost half are sent to the Windows crash server, only a few are not sent anywhere. While looking around for what the problem may be, someone on the Adobe forum posted a link to an article that reviewed CS4 with XP & Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit. After considering their comments and comparing them to my experiences, I'm beginning to believe the CS4 runs better in a 64-bit environment. Here's my thinking: One of my projects is larger and it crashes interminably while three or four smaller ones don't. Same system. Same resources. Same installation configuration. So it seems possible that CS4 is hungry for resources (which is alright) but it doesn't know how to behave when it runs out of resources (it should never crash, only issue advisories). The article referred to above tracked process memory usage for various tests and some functions were using 9-10GB of memory between all the processes in the 64-bit system, while the same test on a 32-bit system would use less, maybe 3-5 GB (more than a 32-bit system has access to, so a lot of paging has to be done). Another consideration explained in the article is that CS4 has been re-architectured and now more functions are individual processes; this is great and consistent with OOP concepts, except that a common error is to not detect errors properly or not return error messages properly up the hierarchy back to the initiating process. Or by the use of timers to detect orphan processes, etc. Therefore my theory is that Adobe programmers are still having problems with all these individual processes communicating with each other, and that a lot of the crashes are improperly handled error messages that are occurring because of insufficient resources or timers expiring. If they ever get all of these kind of crashes resolved they'll probably have a screamer of a system, although it will probably require - require - a 64-bit OS (which is what a Mac uses, is that right?) No one at Adobe is acknowledging this theory, but you know what? No one at Adobe is denying it, either!! Just some idle talk. Lee From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sune Alexandersen Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 2:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AP] Re: Handling timecode breaks different! >. (I feel that Premiere crashes most compared to Avid and FCP).< >.< Dunderfilm // Sune Alexandersen www.dunderfilm.no www.suneworld.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
