Random Crashes, Application Errors

Question

I'm using Adobe Premiere 4 on my Dell Latitude D610, Windows XP 2002 (SP2), 2 GB of RAM and 23GB of hard drive space.
I'm trying to do about a 8-10 minute highlight film for work, but it keeps randomly crashing on me. I have it on auto save every two minutes so I don't lose everything.
There seems to be no rhyme or reason for the crash, but I do on occasion get the "Application Error" that says memory can't be read.
I've tried my IT department and they say it's not the computer, we don't use that program, etc., etc,...
Does anyone have a solution(s) to my problem? It's a very important project that needs to be done by next week and this is very frustrating as you can imagine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again,
Matt

Answer 1

There could be a number of reasons for your crash:
1) Outdated drivers, Quicktime and RealTek. And you should be on XP SP3.
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c057647
2) 23 gig is barely enough free hard drive space for editing video, particularly if you haven't cleaned off the temp files and defragmented lately.
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc43f9a
3) You also don't say what type of video format you're editing. Video other than DV-AVIs (captured from a miniDV camcorder) can require considerably more scratch disk space on your hard drive -- and photos that haven't been resized to no larger than 1000x750 pixels can require even more. You also say you're working on a highlight reel, which seems to imply that, although you're only cutting together a 10 minute project, you may be working with many gigabytes of raw video, which also require scratch disk space on your drive.