More Premiere troubles...

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More Premiere troubles...

Postby Parrot Lover » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:23 pm

Okay, my problem is, Premiere Elements used to work fine for me, but now whenever I start up it up, everything from the "Starting up" screen onwards is slower than a snail, then when it gets loaded, the program tends to freeze up on me.

I'm not sure what's causing it, the video card or maybe my computer's memory is getting full. I don't want to re-install the program unless there is a way to save the AMV I'm working on so that it'll still be there.
Help would be very much appreciated, thanks in advance.
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Postby Kariudo » Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:55 am

if you installed it a while ago, it is normal for a computer to run slower as you put more things on it (regradless of whether or not you think you are adding things)

a few things that may help free up some memory/genearlly imporve system performance:
defragment your hard drive (open my computer, and right click the drive to defrag, select properties, and click the tools tab)

go into the control panel and start the add/remove programs program get rid of programs that you use rarely or not at all.

this next one can cause a few problems if you don't know what you're doing, but to free up some ram, go to start, run, type msconfig.
go to the services tab, and scroll down to find things that are running, but that you don't need (like itunes, msn/aol messenger, etc)
if you don't know what it is...you should probably just leave it alone

next, go to the startup tab and repeat the previous step (this requires a restart after you finish)

another option (costs a little, but may be worth it) is to buy some new/upgrade your ram.
512MB is ok for editing (some people can get by only with 256MB 0_0)
but 1GB of ram can prove useful.
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Postby Parrot Lover » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:24 am

Okay, I'll try those. Thanks for your help.
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Postby Gepetto » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:57 am

As for reinstalling the program, all you have to do is keep the project file, and you can access it normally.
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