Limit RAM used by Premiere Pro?

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Limit RAM used by Premiere Pro?

Postby Bauzi » Sun May 13, 2007 4:12 pm

I have the problem that Premiere shuts down or hooks up when it recheas the nearly 1,800GB of used RAM (uhm... this is overall used RAM with Windows XP and other stuff in the background).

If a process needs to much ram it will get shoot down automaticly by the OS. That´s what I know. So how can I limit the RAM that Premiere wants to get?

I don´t see there a function in the settings...

Please help! I use Premiere Pro 1.5
I love AE because you can set the RAM settings very good and clear =/
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Postby Kariudo » Sun May 13, 2007 4:25 pm

unfortunately I don't think it can be done
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Postby Scintilla » Sun May 13, 2007 4:25 pm

If you're editing with AVISynth scripts, you can use the <b>SetMemoryMax</b> command to limit the amount of RAM that AVISynth is allowed to use for each script. (Put something like SetMemoryMax(5) at the beginning of each script, or else use the GUI for the Premiere Pro AVISynth import plugin, which creates an auto-loading helper script in your AVISynth plugins directory called SetMemoryMax.avsi with just the SetMemoryMax line so that it will apply to all scripts that don't have a SetMemoryMax line already.)

If not, then I have no idea.
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Postby Bauzi » Sun May 13, 2007 4:46 pm

I know about the GUI, but a look at it can´t be wrong at all.
Mhmm... SetMemoryMax was at 16.

I think that my Premiere was much more stable when I ran the whole system with 1GB RAM. =/

Let´s test a bit the new memorymax for avs...

unfortunately I don't think it can be done

I think that this is a bad failure of Premiere. Should be changed! AE solves it in such a nice, good and easy way .-.
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Postby Orzmella » Mon May 14, 2007 2:40 am

Maybe you should try shutting down that " other staff in the background " ?
I am using 512 mb chip set and premiere pro , never felt a problem with lag in my life , it never even reaches the limit . I have no idea what you are running that 1.8gb is not enough for you !
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Postby AMV_4000 » Mon May 14, 2007 2:56 am

this is another reason why i wont upgrade from 6.5... i played with premiere pro on my friends comp, liked it, but it was running 800mb ram on average... and that was just running psd files.. all i can tell you is try downgrading?
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Postby Bauzi » Mon May 14, 2007 3:19 am

Orzmella wrote:Maybe you should try shutting down that " other staff in the background " ?
I am using 512 mb chip set and premiere pro , never felt a problem with lag in my life , it never even reaches the limit .

Come on! Don´t think I´m a noob at that sort of things ;)
Of course I close things I don´t need like the antivir guard or other stuff. What I was talking about were the system programs. Yesterday I tried to shut down the Windows XP interface. It´s strange when you have to start VDM with the task manager, but hey! I gained 33MB RAM xD

I have no idea what you are running that 1.8gb is not enough for you !

It´s so fuckin´ awesome. Premiere Pro puts more than 1GB into the RAM when it´s opened, but... It doesn´t need the harddisk for additional RAM. Everything goes in and out and because I have 4 512MB moduls... it´s damn fast and just awesome for editing.

I could try to import my Premiere Pro project into AE for better rendering, but...
1. I use avs and not vfapi.avi (or similar things for the avs)
2. There are some Keying effects that don´t work in AE (at least AE tells me when I wanted to try them out in it)
3. A whole 12 minute project with lot´s of cuts and stuff in AE? Think about all the layers! There HAS to be something wrong in the end .-.
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Postby Orzmella » Mon May 14, 2007 3:29 am

Bauzi wrote:Come on! Don´t think I´m a noob at that sort of things ;)


I am not ! ^^
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Postby Gepetto » Mon May 14, 2007 11:39 am

I remember reading something somewhere about how you could create a key in any program's folder on the windows registry that would set a RAM ceiling just like what SetMemoryMax does, but I couldn't find it again (Google is not omniscient damn that online church).
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Postby Bauzi » Mon May 14, 2007 1:47 pm

Gepetto wrote:I remember reading something somewhere about how you could create a key in any program's folder on the windows registry that would set a RAM ceiling just like what SetMemoryMax does, but I couldn't find it again (Google is not omniscient damn that online church).


I´m a IT students. I think that one of my tutors should know. I hope so :? ...
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Postby lister007 » Tue May 15, 2007 2:14 pm

hmm... there were registry changes for premiere a while back but if you check now its just "cs3 will solve it in this way....blah blah blah"


Don't know if this helps....if your trying to render your work area and it says out of memory maybe have a look here.

http://www.ittvis.com/services/techtip.asp?ttid=3346


Also if your just wanting to export your stuff set up a frame server to something that will handle your memory better.

If you figure it out leave a note on here so we know in the future.
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Postby Bauzi » Thu May 17, 2007 6:03 am

Out of link wrote:Solution
The Microsoft developer tool Visual C++ includes a utility called editbin.exe, which can potentially win an IDL process a couple of 100 MB additional contiguous virtual memory space at process start. This utility, run at the DOS command line, has a parameter option "/rebase", which enables end-users to force any application DLL to move from its default address to an address of the user's choice. With this utility, one can "pack" DLL'S, which are loading at too high a starting address, down in the lowest virtual memory addresses that the system will allow. This is not likely to be a good solution for an IDL application that has to run frequently with very large array allocation, but rather is a utility you might use when you have a one-time IDL process you want to test, you think it is failing by just 100-200 MB of malloc() capability, and you have exhausted the other options we have suggested above.


I didn´t test it, because it won´t work. It´s a too big (overall) process and it would give me only a few more minutes. It´s not a limitation at all.
I wonder how the PROs work at Windows. I mean... it limits the RAM used by a progress to 2GB. I don´t know if Macs give them more.

To the frameserving stuff... ok is a good solution for exporting that I forgot. I already have it on my system, but it didn´t work (even with the whole help files) so I gave up. I should pick it up again!

hmm... there were registry changes for premiere a while back but if you check now its just "cs3 will solve it in this way....blah blah blah"

Let´s upgrade?!
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