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2 Problems (or maybe 1?) in Premiere CS4
I have a recent issue with Adobe Premiere CS4 that I need resolved. I have been mastering several 30 minute programs to DV-Cam over the last week when the process began to get buggy on Friday (i.e. the export would freeze or suddenly I’d get multiple dropped frames). On Monday morning Premiere started just fine, I did a quick project, and about an hour and a half into my day the Media Encoder crashed, quickly followed by Premiere.
When I tried to re-open Premiere, it crashed every time it reached the ExporterAVI.prm, and Media Encoder did the same. When I isolated that prm from the plug-ins folder, the program ran fine but gave me no options for Microsoft AVIs anymore.
I’ve installed nothing new recently and the only thing I could think of that might be screwing it up is that I had viewed a client’s footage on Sunday off of a hard drive and that footage was comprised of several different file formats and codecs, including a divx file.
It feels like my problem started on Friday and built to yesterday’s crash, but I understand that these issues could be unrelated because of the files I viewed on Sunday. Regardless, I’m open to any and all feedback on these problems.
I’m currently running Vista 64 w/a Matrox Axio LE card (using Axio.utils Version 4.2.0.141) and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX for my display card (running driver 8.16.11.9107). I have the Matrox acceleration effects enabled in Premiere in case that makes a difference.
Brad Torreano
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8 Replies
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[Brad Torreano] “I have been mastering several 30 minute programs to DV-Cam over the last week when the process began to get buggy on Friday”
What was the source footage of the programs you were mastering??
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My source footage was all captured in-house as Matrox AVIs. I use the Matrox MPEG I-Frame codec for everything and all my other projects have been working smoothly, and that includes things that I’ve worked on today.
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[Brad Torreano] “My source footage was all captured in-house as Matrox AVIs. I use the Matrox MPEG I-Frame codec for everything”
Gee! I can’t see why you are having a problem, converting to Matrox’s I-frame codec will fix anything.
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Nothing was converted. I captured this footage directly from the DV Cam deck using the Matrox AVI codec. That results in the best quality workflow with the Axio LE hardware/software I’m using. I’ve been using Matrox codecs with Premiere for over 2 years and this is the first time I’ve ever had this problem.
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[Brian Louis] “Gee! I can’t see why you are having a problem, converting to Matrox’s I-frame codec will fix anything.”
I can’t tell if that is sarcasm or not.
Mike Cohen
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Brad,
I have found that the usual culprit for this behavior is a corrupt clip (or two, or three). The only way to diagnose this I have found is to close the project, rename a clip file (I usually just put an underscore in front of the name.) Alternately you can move the file to some other folder. Then reopen the project. When PP asks about the missing file tell it to skip finding it. Keep doing this until the project becomes stable.
You might find the offender this way but it can be time consuming.
I have had previously good clips go bad when the system hangs for one reason or the other.
Good luck.
Dave
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[Brad Torreano] “Nothing was converted. I captured this footage directly from the DV Cam deck using the Matrox AVI codec”
Thats what I was trying to find out with my question, not what you answered below, knowing it what the source was makes it easier to make a judgement call, probably like mentioned Dave mentioned.
“My source footage was all captured in-house as Matrox AVIs. I use the Matrox MPEG I-Frame codec for everything and all my other projects have been working smoothly” -
I believe what I understand your situation to be is that the corrupted project doesn’t open, but making a new project works just fine?
(I’m unclear on this as you note that PPro stops loading when it hits ExporterAVI.prm…which would indicate something in the application.)
If this is the case, I’d have to say that Dave’s procedure is probably most effective to track it down.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,
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