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Premiere CS3 Indexing FAIL m2t
Yet again, CS3 never ceases to amaze me with it’s ability to stop working in the most bizarre ways.
THE PROBLEM
m2t HDV files are not indexing (& conforming audio) correctly. I import the file, it does a speedy-quick index, and then nothing. It shows the indexing process bar, but it lasts no more than 2-seconds (depending on the size of the clip). I can let this thing sit all day long and it’ll never show anything more than “MEDIA PENDING.”WHAT I KNOW
I’ve been importing m2t’s into premiere, without problem, for almost a year now. I’ve seen issues come and go and I have had to perform a fair-share of adobe diagnostics… lol. I’ve seen some CRAZY bugs and some even CRAZIER fixes…WHAT I’VE DONE SO FAR
–> First I imported a about 20 clips into a fresh project. Indexing was being performed, however only 1 clip out of all the m2t’s ever made it through indexing and past the “media pending” screen of doom. Then, Adobe says, “Premiere is running low on system memory.. blah blah blah…” It seemed like premiere went into a permanent indexing loop of destruction. The indexing progress bar was a blur as it whipped through all 20 clips, repeatedly and continuously, before it closed itself (out of shame, I bet).–> Yeah, okay premiere… I’ve got over 4Gb of DDR2 RAM installed on my XP SP3 with the 3Gb/Switch enabled. Each of my Hard drives has a paging file of 5000-6000 Mb (go big or go home). I have over 1Gb of video memory coming from my twin Nvidia 8800GT’s in SLI mode. My Intel Quad-Core Q6600 is running fine as well. I have over 5.5Tb of HDD space. I have my media cache database clean and ready on a seperate HDD, as well as my media caches well-established on a seperate SCRATCH hard-drive. ALL CLEANED UP. Premeire rendering is optimized for MEMORY.
–> Deleted the Adobe preferences stuff..
–> Defrag’d all HDD’s
–> Set the process priotity to “high”
–> created a new project, triple checked the settings
–> manually deleted my scratch media cache and database
–> checked the files in Media Player Classic (k-lite)
–> tried a variety of techniques to stimulate a good index like unlinking and offlining the video clips.
–> I’ve tried importing just 1 clip at a time.. I get “media pending” forever.
–> I’ve tried importing known-good clips that have worked fine before… still nothing
–> I put a gun to the computer and threatened premiere… still nothing (lol.. j/k)
–> Deleted all Temp files on all HDD’s. Performed disk cleanup. ( this has resolved other premiere issues for me)
IN SUMMATION
No matter what I do, I can’t get away from that stupid italicized font and “MEDIA PENDING.”I know this works.. I’ve done it before… and I’m getting really sick of reinstalling XP, all my drivers, and CS3.. everytime premiere gets constipated.
….. any suggestions? ……. thanks in advance!
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*slamming my head against my desk*
Here’s how I fixed it… Hold onto your seats.
Earlier in my quest, I found a recent updated to my Nvidia drivers… I updated my drivers, and it disabled my SLI configuration after reboot.
(keep in mind, SLI was ENABLED when this problem started.. and I’ve also reboot a dozen times since)
I messed around w/ some settings while SLI was off… then re-enabled SLI… restarted the computer…
and now it works fine… I just dragged 20 m2t clips into premiere, and they are all indexing and conforming fine… no more “media pending”
Well.. hopefully this might help someone in the future…
crazy.
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