First of all, here are the specs: Adobe Premiere Pro v. 7.0, Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (32 bit), Intel Core Dou T2450 @ 2.00GHz, 2038 MB of RAM.
Problem: When running Premiere, memory usage begins out around 5MB, while in the program editing video as it stores clip previews, timelines, ect. the memory will steadily go from 5MB all the way to 1.5 gigs (within about 10 minutes of editing) and then the program will freeze up. The only way to fix the problem is to end the process in task manager and restart Premiere. At which the memory usage/problem starts over again.
Now, I am working with a total of about 30 hours of footage that I'm trying to find clips in so I can edit it into a 5 minute video. The way I have done this in the past is first finding the clips I would like to use, organize them into seperate projects on the timeline (ending up with about 3 hours in different timeline projects) and then taking the clips from designated areas to edit into the 5 minute video.
So, my question(s) being, is there any way to get Premiere to reset the memory usage without restarting the program? If not, is there possibly a specific reason it simply freezes (no warning messege or anything)? Or, if the other two are not possible, is there any advice on better ways of organizing cut clips to find specific things without going through all imported footage?
I am using VOB files imported through AVS, a process I have always used for this editing (without problems). However, this is my first time working with so much footage (I usually have about 10 hours) and also my first time working Premiere in Vista (unfortunatly, Vista is what came with the new laptop I bought). I have already tried increasing the Virtual Memory (up to 3000, max 4000) and moved Premiere's scratch disk to an external Hard Drive, both did nothing for preformance. On another note, does anyone know if Premiere 6.5 (or in fact, any version before Pro) works with Vista? And if so, are the project files the same used with Pro? I'm sure I could find the answers to these two last questions myself if I look around though, I'm just desperate to find a way to edit this video in the next week or so.
Thank you for any help that could be provided in this matter.




