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Chapter 5, Defining Your Adobe Premiere Settings
A note about running other programs with
Adobe Premiere
For the best performance, don’t run any other programs at the same time as
Adobe Premiere. Screen savers and programs that use a large amount of system
memory, such as most paint and compositing applications, can cause problems if
you run them at the same time as Adobe Premiere.
Loading project presets
The Matrox realtime plug-in for Adobe Premiere includes project presets that
you can load to immediately apply appropriate RT.X100 Xtreme settings.
°To load an RT.X100 Xtreme project preset:
1 Start Adobe Premiere. The Load Project Presets dialog box appears.
2 From the Matrox DV folder, select the preset, such as DV (DV-1394 Input),
that matches the type of project you want to create.
3 Click OK to apply the settings. You can customize your project settings as
explained in the following sections.
Setting up your scratch disks
When specifying the location of your scratch disks in Adobe Premiere, make sure
you follow the recommendations in your Adobe Premiere User Guide. For
example, store your video and audio files on an A/V drive used exclusively for
that purpose.
°To specify your scratch disks:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks and Device Control.
2 Under Scratch Disks, select an A/V drive for Captured Movies, Video
Previews
, and Audio Previews.
3 Click OK to save your preferences.
Remarks
• If you switch your video standard (as explained on page 35), you’ll have to
set up your scratch disks again.
• For information on setting up device control for your DV camera or deck,
see “Setting up DV-1394 device control” on page 69.
Setting your low disk space warning level
Before you perform an export to disk in Premiere, you must have enough disk
space for your exported project. If you have low disk space during an export,
Premiere can become unstable. To avoid this problem, you should specify a high