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Rod,

Looks like you ran into the old PSD memory leak problem. I'm a tad fuzzy on this but I'll do the best I can to re-explain what I was told. The problem was with image importer which was essential brought over from Photoshop. What happens is that the image is loaded into memory and them the memory isn't entirely released back to the system. This was never a problem with Photoshop because PS users never really worked with very many files at a time. However when you're dealing with video which plays each file essentially 30 times a second, the memory loss tends to compound. Before long you get an out of memory error. In PPro 1.0, this resulted in a lot of people getting green and black still images displayed instead of the actual file. In PPro 1.5, they made some improvements to the processing (the green/black stills issue almost entirely stopped getting reported here), but they obviously didn't close all the holes. In PPro 2.0, they made more improvements but I just checked the 2.0 forum and there's at least one person there that may be experiencing the same problem.

The good news is that you've found the work around which is to reduce the size of the stills. Probably just changing to a smaller frame size would have fixed it, but by converting to JPG as well, you've really reduced the file size as well.

As for Adobe considering this acceptable, I'm sure they don't. Hell, they might not have even tested for this. It's not that I'm excusing this, it's just that I understand the situation. I've been associated with the software industry long enough that I've got some insight. You can never fix everything. You fix the things that have the greatest impact on users first, then work your way down through the lower impact items until you've fixed everything you know about, or you simply run out of time. Typically, you run out of time. Anyway, I'm glad you're back up and running again.

I'll suggest your fix to the guy in the 2.0 forum and see if it fixes him as well.:)