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Corrupted File
On Friday, I was given approval a long stalled project in Premiere cs4. I realized that I had mistakenly deleted a few files. So I imported an m2v file from the approval DVD I made for my boss. I replaced the missing footage with clips from the m2v file. Then Premiere crashed. Which is not uncommon as the computer I edit on is less then ideal for editing.
When I restarted the program and tried to open the project it froze at 75 percent. I opened the most recent auto save and repeated importing the m2v. It happened again. So i converted the m2v to an Avi. Before I left Friday afternoon everything seemed to be fine.
I tried opening the clean project this morning and it froze again. My back up of the project without what I thought was the corrupt file won’t load either.
I’ve deleted the media cache, and the temp files. It hasn’t help. Premiere won’t import the project into a new project. And other projects open fine.
What can I do to get the project to open correctly?
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20 Replies
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Just send you the project file?
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Sent out what should be a fixed version your way. Let me know how that works out…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hey V…
do you have some magic tools that open the binary for editing?
Alex
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There are a few options. First, rename to XML and open in XML Wrench, use the repair option in the menu. That should fix any obvious problems. I usually also quickly go through the headers to catch obvious problems, it helps to know XML 🙂
Another option that sometimes works but usually comes at the cost of some re editing is to import the file into After Effects then re-export as a Premiere project.
With all of these options, you can can get a workable file in most cases.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Wow…interesting…
a .Prproj is an XML file?
What would stop you from opening it in a text editor?
Anything?
Alex
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You could open it in a text editor, it just doesn’t give you that nice color coding and repair options.
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sir i am using premiere pro cs5 and the project file that ive been working as of now is damaged…ive tried everything that the forum has said…are there any ways that i can fix this problem…thank you,,,
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Send it my way (vince (at) kaptis .com, I’ll check to see if I can do something with it.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Interesting… good to know this!
so I compared my damaged file (PPro CS5.5 project) in XML Wrench with a auto save file from the same project… the auto save file has a lot of data in it, but the project file is blank… nada…
Tried the AE trick.. no go…
Power bump is what killed my file… I guess Premiere doesn’t actually save any data in the file until it has to…?
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