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endlessly indexing
I have ran out of ideas so I come to you folks here hoping to find an answer. I looked over the threads and did not find a similar topic.
Several things to try and explain but essentially my computer and adobe cant seem to join the files any longer. Premiere Pro 2 appears to endlessly be in “indexing” mode. the files are there I open them and run them with whatever application will play them so I know they are viewable and assume available. I have some graphics that were created in AE and dropped onto the timeline they are there and not showing as “media pending” as the rest is.
So far I have tried:
1) system reset to november thinking it may help. it didnt. I moved in December so I was not using the system for several weeks.
2) I did error checking on all my HD’s (three of them) and found no problems, (fearing the move messed them up).
3) The files are on two HDs (one external and one internal) I attempted to start a new project using files from both drives independently and it still indexes endlessly.
fragments arent an issue nor is my ram…
So, at this point I dont mind reinstalling adobe or ditching my 50hrs+ of editing so far just as long as it will work when I re-import my footage. I hope there will be another solution before I go this route.
Please help!!!
Thanks!
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15 Replies
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“Indexing” seems like a Quicktime or mpeg2 dialog.
What did you export to from AE ?Vince
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I rendered the AE out to quick time.
the rest and the bulk of the stuff mpg2 (HDV footage) and it worked flawlessly before I moved.
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If you have Quicktime Pro, you could try doing an uncompressed AVI export from there on the original clips, otherwise, I would export again to AVI from AE instead; the Quicktime export from QT Pro will of course be much faster.
In fact, I no longer even try to work with Quicktime in Premiere, just like FCP doesn’t speak AVI, PP2 is very QT unfriendly. Must be (or was) an Apple <> Adobe conspiracy 😉
Half the time the audio track will not show up, or will pop / drop. Of course, it also depends on the codec you chose. The animation codec doesn’t give me many issues in that case, but most of the time, all bets are off.
Vince
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Hi Vince,
Either I am mistaken or you are misunderstanding me. My AE stuff is fine and dandy no problems they show up on the timeline and they scroll through etc. Its my m2v files that are no longer showing up and seem to be in endless index mode. I get media pending screen that will not go away.
I do have qtpro thanks for the tips, once I get a more solid edit I will likely rerender to a better format later on my AE stuff.
I just dont know how to get pp to recognize these indexes.. is it codexes that are messed up somehow?
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Premiere does not handle .m2v files well at all, at least not without the Main Concept plug-in. Premiere Elements 3 does much better with Mpeg files.
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pp2 does not handle m2v files? it was working just fine before. today I will experiment by reimporting onto a new timeline… if that works I will just scrap everything Ive done. If that doesnt work I will reintstall the suite… hopefully someone will come up with a better solution.
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Yep, Mpeg2 is sketchy, and no, it isn’t fully supported by Premiere. A different GOP setting may be causing you trouble, but I wouldn’t count on any reliable regular import. Are you saying that the exact same file, that you imported earlier, no longer works ? If that’s the case dump your preferences first (Ctrl+Shift at startup)
Good luck,
Vince
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it is calling it a .m2t file not m2v
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Hi well this didnt seem to take either… time to reinstall adobe I suppose. I am worried it cant handle my hdv files now.
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[Skala4] “it is calling it a .m2t file not m2v”
By indexing do you mean like system file indexing? if so make sure indexing is turned off in the drive properties, it takes forever to index video files and slows the system down.
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