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Be CAREFUL about using Encore!!
All,
Just a lesson learned, bad one, I may add. I have all my one project saved in one directory, including its sources (3 DVs, 2 HDVs, 2 Sound Tracks & many pictures…). I was all done encoding in Premier CS3, and ready to make a menu. I usually use another program to do so, but this time, I thought, well, I will try Encore. I opened up Encore, and thinking to put Encore Project within that same directory. Guess what? It whips my directory clean and replace with my the empty Encore project without any prompt! They are gone, gone, no system recovery, gone!!! 2wks of works, gone. I am back to the drawing board, the sad news is, one of my sound track has been removed from original source, therefore, lost forever. I will have to live with just 4 others (thank God I have not retaped over my other tapes.)Perry
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Perry,
That doesn’t sound right man. I always use the same directory for all related projects (well subdirectories named Encore, etc), and most include Encore, Premiere, and After Effects, even cinema 4D. Never lost any footage or projects. I would shoot an email to Adobe and explain the issue.
Vince
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Well, when I am thru with this project, I will do a test to confirm. But, that is what happened to me this couple days, the machine did not crash, nor did it selectively crashed a directory. I did realize when I was in Premiere, it keeps giving me a “memory low” message. But I was able to finish my works, render everything out… then brought the project into Encore… then, it is gone.
Perry
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So, did you export to Encore from Premiere, or did you import the Premiere project in Encore. Trying to reproduce the issue.
Also, was the Encore project in a subdirectory, or were all the files in the same folder (Even if they never were, no pun intended)
Vince
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BTW, I tried again, but Encore does automatically create a new subfolder named after the project, so no real way to use the same exact folder for me. I even tried to use the exact same name as the Premiere folder to see if it would overwrite it, but it automatically went to a subdirectory, wouldn’t let me save it otherwise.
The editing God must be angry…
Good thing you had the rest somewhere else.
Vince
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