Hmm, I see. I'm sorry if I sounded snippy. Without knowing what kind of setup you have there's no way to be sure, but I've made vids with Premiere on some seriously old and underpowered machines - slow processor, slow bus, slooow drives - and the number of clips in the project has never been a problem. *Rendering* could take forever, and there were times I had to wait and hum the Jeopardy theme while the video refreshed, but since Premiere uses pointers to the source files and not the files themselves, you might actually be making it easier for the machine by using several small files rather than one big one.
That said, I am a vidder from the age of the dinosaurs and working with multiple clip files is much more like working with tapes. Premiere is not the most forgiving program - finicky bitch is more like it - and if your source files have been ripped with different settings I can see how Premiere might choke on them.
But really, try multiple files. It's actually very efficient when you get used to it.
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Date: 2008-02-11 02:32 am (UTC)That said, I am a vidder from the age of the dinosaurs and working with multiple clip files is much more like working with tapes. Premiere is not the most forgiving program - finicky bitch is more like it - and if your source files have been ripped with different settings I can see how Premiere might choke on them.
But really, try multiple files. It's actually very efficient when you get used to it.