Thanks for the replies. We were copying to a separate physical drive (an external 750 gb drive). 1 thing that may have been a small part of the problem is that the project files were spread over different drives ( he forgot to set the scratch/working drives beforehand, so a lot of the files wound up in a default folder where CS4 puts them. I know this would have made exporting and/or editing slower & more processor intensive, but in this case we were merely copying a bunch of files from 2 or 3 locations to 1 folder on another drive. so i don't think that was it. the reason we even attempted this was that when trying to export to tape once the project was "done" the camera had a problem. our temporary solution was to take the whole project to a friends on a portable drive & do THAT part of the process there. we had already transcoded a copy to a playable disc. (this was one of those "timed-project deals"- a 28-day film competition (fun idea by the way.) I guess i'll do some research on the "collect & copy" thing. I think it's a great concept- Adobe Indesign has such a function by the way- i learned that in college. How do you all handle saving/archiving the complete project & all associated files? one of the options even let you save all the preview files, but i had unchecked that option to try & keep only what was necessary to do the task at hand.
--- In [email protected], Uwe Soltau <lenseye....@...> wrote: > > For the fun of it and having nothing better to do (ha,ha) I did a > "collect©" of > my present project. > Firstly, a have a vintage computer compared to Adreane's. > My project size is 18.2 Gb > 1. I copied to a different drive than the one with the source footage, > took 10min. > 2. I copied to the same drive on which the source footage is, took 29min. > > With only 5.63Gb to copy the task should have been completed in less > than 10min, > even if copied to the drive with the source footage on. > > Telling you this does unfortunately not solve your problem. > I would suggest that you do a test and copy the folder with the same > footage to a > different location (drive) in Explorer. If that does not take long > would indicate > that the problem lies with Premiere and not your computer. > As the computer has never been online I am wondering whether you have > installed > the latest Premiere update 4.2.1 ? > > Uwe > > > > I just jumped on the computer from a break and saw your message, yet don't > > see where anyone answered. Here is an observation - I remember that > > CS4, (a > > 32-bit application "optimized" for 64-bit, according to Adobe) crashed > > a lot > > for me on a 32-bit Windows. When I changed to 64-bit Windows I seem to > > recall that the crashes ceased, nevertheless, I am wondering whether that > > 32-bit vs. 64-bit phenomenon affected your copying task (I have never used > > "collect & copy" or whatever it is called). You are right, something like > > that shouldn't take "hours and hours". > > > > One suggestion is to make sure you are using several drives because if the > > source and destination drives are the same, there will be a lot of > > thrashing > > that can cost scads of time. By using separate drives the heads remain on > > the respective file, minimizing thrashing. > > > > Lee > > > > From: [email protected] > > <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com> > > [mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com>] > > On Behalf Of Adriane > > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:08 PM > > To: [email protected] > > <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com> > > Subject: [AP] Finding/saving/collecting all project files- issues!! > > > > Hello all, > > > > my husband just finished his 1st project with both a new pc & an > > upgrade to > > CS4. it's taking some getting used to- both the CS4 & Win7- > > but we made it thru. I am the "computer geek" & he is the > > "filmmaker/editor" > > FYI. one of our last tasks was to archive the project as a complete set of > > all related files. I found -under project manager- where we can "collect & > > copy files (not exact wording- i'm not at the editing pc right now). i > > went > > thru all the options & feel like i set it up correctly. BUT- the > > project is > > a 4-min video, total size appears to be 5.63 GB.and it took hours & > > hours to > > do this task- and crashed/froze at least once during. This does not seem > > right.We have a brand-new Dell studio xps 9000, 8 gb ram, plenty of > > processor power (i can't remember now exactly-but one of the intelCore > > i7 or > > i9 processors, add-in nvidia card,etc.I'm 100% sure there's enough > > power in > > this machine. we were not running any other programs & it has never been > > connected online. so- any thoughts on this? when i said hours- it was at > > least 4 hours- then we went to bed & let it continue overnight. > > this cannot be right, can it? > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > [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: [email protected] [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/
