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Premiere Pro Project Manager
I have one project that I want to consolidate and burn to data dvd. I analyzed how large it was going to be after consolidation, and it was still over 4GB, so I broke the project into smaller sections. When I tried to consolidate the project with the project manager, I kept getting a “project manager” type error that told me to try again, which I did over & over. All of my other projects that I consolidated today worked fine, but they all shrank into under 4GB without me breaking them up. To make the project smaller, I created a different project for each timeline within, deleted all references to media that were not used in that project and save them that way. Does anyone know of another way I can accomplish my goal? Anyone know why project manager would continually error? –Louis
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Well, this is what I would do, using the original project. There is an application out there called Winrar that you may know already.
It’s a little like WinZip, except, it lets you break up a folder into separate custom chunks of Data, there’s even a setting for DVD archiving. You can use compression (which will take a long time for a large project) or just let it save the data as is. So for a DVD, it will take the folder, then make several 4.7 Gigs (or any size you tell it to) files containing all your project data.
Once you want to recover the project, just click on one of the archives and it will ask you to find all the other parts.
Cheers,
Vince
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I returned to this dilema today. Haven’t had a chance to get Winrar, but I just can’t get that far yet to where I want to burn it to DVD. My problem lies in Premiere. When I try to trim the project in project manager, that is where I get the error to try again. (Adobe Premiere Pro has encountered an error. [\dev\stingray\Backend\Src\Time\Time Transform.cpp-77] Continue, then, An unknown error occurred during the Project Manager operation. Please save your project and retry the operation.) At this point, I don’t care if the project is 2GB or 12GB. I just want it done. Any ideas what might cause the problem or how I can get around it. I have tried creating a new project and importing the old project into it. I have tried deleting the .mgf files from the mtx temp folder.
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I have found that there are two things that seem to make the previously untrimmable project trimmable. First use project manager to copy all to a new location (exclude unused sources). Use a project name that’s really short and has no punctuation (this seems to help, for some reason). THEN use project manager to trim this newly copied project. Then you can rename it as you wish. I’ve had success on 99% of previously untrimmable jobs (I think the subfloders in the root directory create issues, as do certain long filenames – perhaps there’s a string length limit that’s being hit when your directory structure gets too complex, especially when coupled with a “trim” operation).
slainte,
marisu
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