Make sure you flatten or reduce layers in a layered image file to a reasonable level. SOLUTION: Reformat to the spec you need for the video you are creating and no bigger. An image that’s too big for your computer spec will slow it down until Premiere crashes. If the file size seems suspiciously large (25MB+) then it may be in a format that’s bigger than it needs to be for what you’re doing. Just make sure it doesn’t have a thousand layers in the psd or tiff file. Premiere Pro supports 8bpc and 16bpc still-image files in all of these formats. SOLUTION: Resize your image to the same size as your final video before importing into Premiere. Realistically, if your machine can handle 4k just fine then it’ll handle a 4k sized still image. I highly recommend sticking to the dimensions of your final video, so if your final video is in HD make sure the image is not much bigger than 1920 x 1080 pixels. The optimum size depends on the spec of your machine. If it’s too big and you don’t have the computing power for Premiere to process it then it’ll give up. The basic dimensions of your images are important. SOLUTION: Make sure all images you import are 72dpi. If you try to work with an image that is above 150dpi then Premiere will struggle to process it and just give up. The pixel resolution of the screen is 72dpi (print is 300dpi). Three main things to keep an eye out for: Resolution, Size and Format. Render out and animations you make in After Effects and import them as ProRes/DNxHD.ĭo you have images in your project? If they are in the wrong format it can cause Premiere to crash, even if they’re not on the timeline! SOLUTION: Avoid using Dynamic Link at all costs. Open your project in the new environment and it can just go poof. It’s especially bad when you update Premiere/After Effects or open the project on a new machine. It’s riddled with bugs and constantly causes Premiere to crash. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fantastic idea and by god do I want it to work, but it just doesn’t. SOLUTION: Transcode to WAV/AIFF/AAC using Adobe Media Encoder before you import.ĭynamic Link is a world of pain. Everything will work fine with Premiere until it doesn’t, and you won’t be able to figure out why. There are only three formats of audio that Premiere will play nice with 100% of time – WAV, AIFF/AIF and AAC. SOLUTION: Transcode your footage in Adobe Media Encoder to ProRes or DNx. Alternatively, you can select the footage, and click File > Get Properties for > Selection. Then you’ll get a window telling you if it’s VFR or not. To figure out if your footage is variable frame rate or not, right click it in the timeline and select Properties. Premiere expects the frame rate of the footage to be constant so when it turns out it’s not it’s freaks out and crashes. Some footage shot on small handheld devices like mobile phones record in variable frame rate because it doesn’t have the processing power to keep the frame rate constant. Variable frame rates constantly change during playback. Standard frame rates are a constant 24/25/30 etc. The next biggest major cause for Premiere to crash is because of Variable Frame Rates (VFR). If you want to know more about correct file formats and transcoding then check out our Technical Workflow for Premiere Pro training. They’re processor intensive formats that can slow your machine down as well. Because this is an article about eradicating crashing in Premiere completely, stop editing using mp4s. movs compressed using h.264, but I don’t recommend it. Yes, you or someone you know may have successfully edited using. Try to edit with any video that’s in a delivery format and you may encounter problems in Premiere. MP4, AVI etc etc are DELIVERY formats, ProRes and DNx are EDITING formats. In short, there are just two video file formats that Premiere plays nice with 100% of the time – ProRes if you’re working on Mac, and DNx if you’re on PC. Okay, this is THE most common cause for Premiere crashing: The file format of the video files you are editing with.
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