On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:23:59 GMT, Yvan wrote:

>I'm finding that when I add a dissolve transition to the timeline in
>premiere, and set it so that it fades in from black, that when I export
>it, that the section that has the fade-in is all jerky like it was too
>processor intensive to render properly. I don't see how that would be
>the case, though. I have a P3 500 w/256 mb ram. Has anyone else here
>encountered this problem? If so, is there a fix for it?
>(I'm using Premiere 5.1a on the PC platform uner WinNT)

Just guessing, but it sounds more like a hard drive problem.
Since rendered changes to video in the timeline become new
AVI files, where those files play from is important. If you
are using your program drive for the Premiere preview files
(especially if you are also using the program drive for your
video files), a fragmented and/or slow program drive may
be the cause of the problem. If the above describes your
situation, first dump your Premiere preview files and then
defragment the program drive - and then, without doing
ANYTHING else, try remaking the preview files and playing
back the project... BTW, for short projects (with Mini-DV,
at least), if you defragment the program drive just before
rendering all the timeline previews (at one time), and if
your drive is reasonably fast (UDMA 33 5400rpm is fine...),
you can get away with using a single drive for programs,
preview files, and video files - though it is a good idea
to have at least one dedicated video drive.