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George Kilroy · May 13th, 2011, 08:24 AM

Can anybody tell me what PProHeadless is and what it's function is.
I get frequent stalls or crawls using CS4 Premiere and Encore and when I look in WindowsTask Manager I quite often see 2 or 3 instances of this exe.
I'm wondering if they conflict and cause the problems with CS4, I know that it is something to do with Adobe. but haven't been able to find much info about it.

Another thing that happens when CS4 hangs and I have to close it is a get an Adobe Fonts Capture and a DDE Server dialogue box stating this programme is not responding and I have to end now.
Again anybody have any ideas why these might upset CS4?

Brian Brown · May 14th, 2011, 04:11 PM

George, PProHeadless.exe is the Premiere Pro rendereing engine, running in a "headless" mode. Usually, this is from Adobe Media Encoder rendering out a sequence, or perhaps After Effects if you've inserted a PPro sequence using Dynamic Link.

While I can't help you much with troubeshooting beyond that little bit of info, I can assure you that if you upgrade to CS5, you'll have MUCH fewer issues. You'll upgrade to 64-bit performance, the ability (with certain video cards) to have GPU accelerated playback and effects, and much, much more. CS5 (and now CS5.5) is just a killer suite.

George Kilroy · May 15th, 2011, 01:48 AM

Thanks for that Brian.

I know those who get on with CS5 love it but it's a lot of outlay to make in hardware/software in the hope to overcome a few occasional, though very frustrating, problems. I'm sure that CS4 must have worked well at sometime, I remember people praising it when I made the move, so I'll continue trying to get to the bottom of my problems with it..

May 13th, 2011, 08:24 AM	#1
George Kilroy Major Player Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Midlands UK Posts: 699	PProHeadless ???? Can anybody tell me what PProHeadless is and what it's function is. I get frequent stalls or crawls using CS4 Premiere and Encore and when I look in WindowsTask Manager I quite often see 2 or 3 instances of this exe. I'm wondering if they conflict and cause the problems with CS4, I know that it is something to do with Adobe. but haven't been able to find much info about it. Another thing that happens when CS4 hangs and I have to close it is a get an Adobe Fonts Capture and a DDE Server dialogue box stating this programme is not responding and I have to end now. Again anybody have any ideas why these might upset CS4?

May 14th, 2011, 04:11 PM	#2
Brian Brown Major Player Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Estes Park, CO USA Posts: 426	Re: PProHeadless ???? George, PProHeadless.exe is the Premiere Pro rendereing engine, running in a "headless" mode. Usually, this is from Adobe Media Encoder rendering out a sequence, or perhaps After Effects if you've inserted a PPro sequence using Dynamic Link. While I can't help you much with troubeshooting beyond that little bit of info, I can assure you that if you upgrade to CS5, you'll have MUCH fewer issues. You'll upgrade to 64-bit performance, the ability (with certain video cards) to have GPU accelerated playback and effects, and much, much more. CS5 (and now CS5.5) is just a killer suite.

May 15th, 2011, 01:48 AM	#3
George Kilroy Major Player Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Midlands UK Posts: 699	Re: PProHeadless ???? Thanks for that Brian. I know those who get on with CS5 love it but it's a lot of outlay to make in hardware/software in the hope to overcome a few occasional, though very frustrating, problems. I'm sure that CS4 must have worked well at sometime, I remember people praising it when I made the move, so I'll continue trying to get to the bottom of my problems with it..