Bruce Watson
March 6th, 2012, 12:38 PM
My two year old laptop has been amazingly stable. Until now. It's running an i7 930 @2.8GHz, 6 GB memory, win7 64 bit, an NVIDIA gtx 285m, and Production Premium CS5 (PPro is at 5.0.3). All the software is up to date.
I've been doing single camera edits for like 18 months. No problems other than the usual learning curves. Last Friday I started down the road of doing a mulit-cam edit (2 cameras). Imported files, got setup with both video streams on a "source" timeline, no problem. Got synced, no problem. Created a "multi-cam edit" timeline, got it set to multicam, no problem.
Went to play the source timeline just to verify sync and a few seconds into the video the Program Monitor got a "glitter bomb" (image came apart into random pixels) and the screen locked up. Could use other applications, but not PPro.
After 30-60 seconds or so, Win7 popped up a message that said that it had detected a display not responding error and apparently rebooted the display driver. Of course this didn't help PPro much as it didn't have any connection to this new instance of a display driver, so I had to kill it with the Task Manager. Sadly, this wasn't the end of the story as the entire display was now sprinkled with just enough non-responsive pixels to make it usable but annoying. So I did a cold boot. Everything came up fine.
Pulled up PPro all by itself and tried to run the source timeline again, same problem. Only this time I could hear audio -- continued to play the audio even though the display was gone. And again all I could do to stop it was kill it with the Task Manager.
The only thing I can find in the event logs is an entry for each event, a warning, from the display, event id 4101 with the text "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." Followed the link to Microsoft's webpages and got essentially nothing for my trouble.
I've searched and searched and come up empty -- anyone have any idea what the deal is with multi-cam editing and the gtx 285m? If you do, any work arounds?
I've been doing single camera edits for like 18 months. No problems other than the usual learning curves. Last Friday I started down the road of doing a mulit-cam edit (2 cameras). Imported files, got setup with both video streams on a "source" timeline, no problem. Got synced, no problem. Created a "multi-cam edit" timeline, got it set to multicam, no problem.
Went to play the source timeline just to verify sync and a few seconds into the video the Program Monitor got a "glitter bomb" (image came apart into random pixels) and the screen locked up. Could use other applications, but not PPro.
After 30-60 seconds or so, Win7 popped up a message that said that it had detected a display not responding error and apparently rebooted the display driver. Of course this didn't help PPro much as it didn't have any connection to this new instance of a display driver, so I had to kill it with the Task Manager. Sadly, this wasn't the end of the story as the entire display was now sprinkled with just enough non-responsive pixels to make it usable but annoying. So I did a cold boot. Everything came up fine.
Pulled up PPro all by itself and tried to run the source timeline again, same problem. Only this time I could hear audio -- continued to play the audio even though the display was gone. And again all I could do to stop it was kill it with the Task Manager.
The only thing I can find in the event logs is an entry for each event, a warning, from the display, event id 4101 with the text "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." Followed the link to Microsoft's webpages and got essentially nothing for my trouble.
I've searched and searched and come up empty -- anyone have any idea what the deal is with multi-cam editing and the gtx 285m? If you do, any work arounds?