Can't Preview Render More than 2 seconds at a time.
by Stephen Hellweg
on
Mar 27, 2008 at 4:18:45 pm
Hello Gurus,
I have installed AFX CS3 on my new computer and am having memory issues. I can't scrub video or audio very well. I keep getting "can't render seconds of audio" messages. And most bothersome-I can't preview more than 2 seconds at full resoulution. only a few more at half res.
The compostions are not that complex, consisting of a base audio layer (.wav) and some animated text layers, a few psd images scaled for the project, and a few video clips(audio off)There is NO 3-D.
My computer is running:
Vista Home Premium
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU @ 2.66 GHZ
4 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX video card
Creative SB X-FI sound card
500 GB Hard Drive
30" Monitor at 2560 X 1600
My old rinky dink computer performed much better.
I'm not an expert on the Tech end but I'm guessing it may be this damn BIG ASS monitor.
Also I don't know if this would make a difference or not but I have my video files on the same drive as the operating system.
I've made adjustments in the preferences to the best of my knowledge to no avail.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Stephen
Re: Can't Preview Render More than 2 seconds at a time. by Dave LaRonde on Mar 27, 2008 at 5:27:03 pm
[Stephen Hellweg]"I have my video files on the same drive as the operating system."
Bad Idea. Move them to a different drive. Don't HAVE a different drive? get one. It's just good, common-sense practice for a wealth of reasons.
But that may not be your problem: it could be your footage. AE doesn't like working with any of the following kinds of footage: Native HDV, MPEG1, MPEG2, mp4, H.264. You need to convert such footage to a different codec before you use it in AE.
Re: Can't Preview Render More than 2 seconds at a time. by Dave LaRonde on Mar 27, 2008 at 5:44:35 pm
[Stephen Hellweg]"Could the hard drive be the issue? My old computer did fine with one drive(that was Version 7 though)."
Highly doubtful. Read on...
"...My computer is running: Vista Home Premium...."
I should have noticed that right away. I'm sorry, I could have given you more information in my first post.
AE has known issues with Vista. It just flat-out doesn't like Vista. On the Adobe web site, there are threads discussing running AE with Vista. It does fine with XP (the 32-bit kind), but not Vista! If re-loading XP's an option, I'd take it.
I don't pay particular attention to them because I'm a Mac guy. But you scould do some snooping to see if Adobe has any new recommendations.
Re: Can't Preview Render More than 2 seconds at a time. by Stephen Hellweg on Mar 27, 2008 at 6:38:16 pm
It's a thirty second comp. consists of about 20 layers of animated fonts and a few images and video segements(bits and pieces spread accross the length)it has one 30 second .wav audio file.
The Memeory and Cache are set at default. (don't know much about adjusting these)
Re: Can't Preview Render More than 2 seconds at a time. by Butch Golden on Mar 27, 2008 at 10:39:27 pm
XP doesn't care what kind of monitor you have. The relationship between the monitor and the computer is a function of the video card and it's drivers only. If you have a video card that will support that resolution, it should work. If not, get one that will.
The way it works;
XP talks to the video card and it (in turn) communicates with the monitor. XP says "Here's 16 bits of instruction and 16 bits of data in one clock cycle." The video card says "OK, I'll display it at X/X res." It can't though if it doesn't have geometry coordinates for your BA resolution in it's firmware.
