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Adobe Premiere Elements memory related problem

Asked by: adneprov

Every time I open a project Im working on in Adobe Premiere I receive this message about low system memory.

"Adobe Premiere Elements is running very low on system memory. Please save and proceed with caution"

The program usually crashes a bit later.  This happens when I have no other applications open.  Anything I can do?

Setup:
CPU: 1.6Ghz
RAM 1.5 Gb
OS: Win XP SP2

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Answers

 

by: apache09Posted on 2008-04-21 at 19:54:30ID: 21407848

Does your PC meet or exceed the Minimum System requirements?
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/systemreqs/

How much disk space is available?

Are there any other programs running at the same time?

Have you tried increasing the paging file?

 

by: adneprovPosted on 2008-04-21 at 20:05:45ID: 21407878

Processor is at 1.6 as oppose to 1.7 in minimum reqs

There are 40Gigs of free space

No programs are running at the same time

Page file is standard 1.5 times the RAM

 

by: apache09Posted on 2008-04-21 at 20:18:15ID: 21407912

Which version of Elements are you using?

Have you also gone through the Adobe Trouble Shooting?
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402373&sliceId=2

 

by: MeretePosted on 2008-04-21 at 21:41:03ID: 21408137

Hi,  I'm not a user of Adobe and that's one of the reason it's need for such excesive amounts of ram.
 but just to add from what I have seen about this problem,
it's possibility related to several things,
What hard drive brand you use.
the TEMP folder fills up.
It is recomended to store the files Adobe uses / creates on a separate drive to save page faults. VM loss.
Start with checking the state of the hard disc defrag it hit analyze .. lots of video editing causes a fair amount of moving files around and the hard drive gets pretty messy.
Clear out the TEMP folder, use the disc cleanup tool from start all programs accessories system tools.
You can help yourself a little to find the problem by running the task manager on top,
In the task manager open VIEW >select columns and add Virtual memory size,
 before opening Adobe,
start the taskmanager on performance or processes
 you'll be able to see which program is hogging resources as soon as Adobe starts.
Explorer using high VM may indicate a need to defrag and empty the TEMP folders.

Hope it helps to pin down the problem simply.
Cheers Merete

 

by: MeretePosted on 2008-04-21 at 21:43:15ID: 21408144

Any updates?
Funny how software just seem to stop functioning properly if there is an update pending.
Windows Updates running in the background?
Uses heaps of ram annoying and necessary as it is.


Cheers

 

by: adneprovPosted on 2008-04-22 at 08:54:09ID: 21412384

I am using version 4.

Hard drive is regularly defragmented with Diskeeper. Overall the system is well maintained.

Windows update is not an issue, I did check that.

Next step would be to run through the troubleshooting guide. I will update this thread with more info. Thanks!

 

by: MeretePosted on 2008-04-22 at 17:40:58ID: 21416835

Hi adneprov
I found one possible solution so to borrow it
turned out to be the size of the still images being used
If you have images in your time line make sure they are not super hi-rez or 300 dpi, and  try to stick with Jpegs.
If you are using images that are 300 dpi try bumping them down to 150.

Also in your Preferences adobe recommends you change the setting optimize rendering for - "memory" but this means that when rendering Premiere will use as much memory as it can.
So exit out of other programs :)
Hope this helps!

Source
http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/882155

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