Clips going off-line in CS3

[Paul Wiens]

I am glad to have found this forum, because I too am plagued with unsavable video previews, but have not noticed clips going off-line. If I save and re-open my project, one project timeline has all of it’s rendered previews LOST, while the other timeline has the rendered previews still intact.

This is an extremely render intensive timeline. Every time Premiere is reloaded, every preview in the timeline cannot be loaded!

This forum seems to confirm the severity of this bug for our project. We don’t have time to wait around for ‘maybe’ a fix in the next update. I’m moving the entire Project to a new editing platform this week in order to meet the deadline of the project.

As the project Sup, I based the entire pipeline on the CS3 products. Looking back, I am very surprised to be let down like this by Adobe’s feature media suite. This could end up setting us back up to an entire week.

[Justin Parker]

The new Premiere update worked for me. I believe it’s 3.2.
I did it a few weeks ago and the problem vanished completely.

[John Newell]

Hi
I am working on a large DVD project 16 chapters many with sub chapters. Haven’t edited for 7 days – switched on – all chapters / sub chapters – MEDIA OFFLINE – My 1000g RAID drive is ok I am using an 8710 HP workstation with latest Nvidia card 4g RAM Win XP sp2 and it has been working fine. Earlier this year I re-installed windows twice when Premier Pro CS3 wouldn’t open – the last time did not install windows updates and all has been ok since. Now a major MEDIA OFFLINE issue in all my timelines. Upgraded to latest Version Premier Pro – no different. Haven’t upgraded Quicktime recently.I can locate each clip / transition and re-link manually but with 1000’s to do is there a fix for this and any ideas why it is occurring? As usual deadline is approaching and with the repeated issues with PPCS3 I’m inclined to just ditch it but too much work has gone into this project to start again with another platform.

Thanking you
Dr John

[Justin Parker]

Updating to Premiere 3.2 fixed it for me.
Before I did the update I had a great workaround for getting the clips online again.
-Select all the clips in your sequence (Control-A)
-Move all the selected clips on the timeline (any point in time will do)
-undo the move (control-z)

this should get all the clips in the timeline back online.

[John Newell]

Hi Justin,
3.2 upgrade had no effect. I tried your suggestion with moving & undoing but again no result – none of the clips (including audio files) are linked. Timeline structure is in tact and manually you can re-build but nothing seems to have worked. Extremely frustrating. Occasionally some of my sub-chapters will have some files linked but perhaps < 10%. Please let me know if you stumble across any further suggestions. Although I've used Premier for a decade, I'm not an industry professional - just a Veterinarian producing a major DVD on Breeding management thanks again john

[Justin Parker]

When you say sub-chapter, are you refering to a nested sequence? Or are you having issues with Encore?

[John Newell]

Hi again,
No simply a stand alone time line that will ultimately become a sub chapter when assembled. My issues are only with PP CS3 at this stage. I have been working on approx 30 timelines (projects) that by their nature cannot be finalised as some video (case material) and images have not yet been shot or sourced. I will have to focus on completing each timeline
Too late in Sydney – tomorrow’s another day
thanks
john

[Krutie Patel]

I tried keeping my raw footage in the same directory where my project was saved. And it worked just fine.
Preview and Render was just fine.
I restarted my project around 7 times in 24 hours, and everything from Effects, Transition to clips were preserved properly.
Hope this helps.

[Savannah Garcia]

yes you can move the clips and move them back to make them go online again and all these things, But, it’s only temporary. if you save, close out and come back it’s offline again.
If you burn it onto dvd the media offline will burn onto the dvd, even though all the information is there and you can see it.
you can’t get it off your computer, I’m so sad
hours days nights and weeks sitting at the computer wasted. I wish I would have bought a different editing program.
Also wierd it’s just my special effects and text which is offline
which is alot, that’s why you get an editing program.