Error compiling movie

[Rob De jong]

Try changing the name of the project. This helps for a while.
If not, try to find where exactly the error is caused. Remove the file (usually a title) and render first without that file. Put it back and render again.

[John Reynolds]

“Try changing the name of the project. This helps for a while.” What kind of solution or answer is that? Sorry but this problem with rendering in Premiere Pro should NOT be happening. Especially when using the Text creation tool in premiere Pro. If you try and use a font that may be corrupt maybe yes. But we all seem to be having this problem and I’m included in this on occasion. Now I’m finding out that my favorite plugin from Video CoPilot…”Twitch” does NOT pre Render in the Timeline so I can see if the effect is ok for me. I make the effects from Aftereffects and import the video in the timeline and save the effect. Half the effect wont prerender. I went through all the scenarios from all the contributing answers here in the forum. Thank you guys. A lot of you are right about using still images with too high a resolution…etc. Really frustrating to still be getting these errors. I wish there was some way that when the error occurs that Premier Pro would tell me what is causiing the problem instead of giving me the general error message. Too much extra work and backtracking. Frustrating.

[Rod Savage]

John, I’ll be the first to admit you sounded like a crackpot. But then I tried closing my program window and it worked. You are now a legend … although still sound slightly like a crackpot.

Cheers mate, really appreciate the great advice.

[David Lupica]

Thanks for the input on image resolution. And the program monitor tip. I’ve had to do this when my video card was acting up. Querky indeed.

Actually, John, I’d hate to tarnish your beloved FCP, but I run into the same EXACT problem with MOST .psd files in Final Cut. The program crashes, the sequence is corrupt. So I dig through the auto-save vault to find a recent version of my sequence, copy it all, paste it into a new sequence, and (as directed by the FCP staff) convert all .psd files to .png. Final Cut is great for story-tell editing. I use it as an in house editor part-time. But when working with photoshop files, handed down from a graphic designer, it’s a pain to make every layer a png. That is, if the animations don’t require After Effects.

Plus I have a really tough time with finding FCP support.

[Richard Crook]

Hey Guys,

I had the exact same problem everyone else is having, and did all the tweaks and troubleshooting outlined here and everywhere else. I was a week past the deadline on a color grading job and just didn’t know what to do. I watched the render progress, taking careful note as to which frame it was on when it crashed and was able to find the exact clip causing the problems. I had a Magic Bullet Look Suite effect applied causing the render to fail at that exact clip with “error compiling movie.” I’ve used this damn effect 50 times before and never had a problem. I just didn’t get it. If I ereased the effect and re-did it, it would work. Hmmm.

Then it dawned on me. When I was through with color grading the entire movie (but before I attempted the encoding), I downloaded a trial of Magic Bullet Looks, which is different and much better than Look Suite. I dropped the Premiere plugins into the plugins folder and then did some moving around of the plugin files.

My theory was…just like when you move a video file around after importing and dropping into your timeline….Premiere asks where you moved it too. But with plugins, Premiere doesn’t know where you moved it to and is unable to render the effect…but it doesn’t ask you where it is.

I realized that I needed to place the MB Look Suite plugin in it’s previous place, therefore making Premire “find” it, but I didn’t know where it used to be before I moved it. So, I copied the plugin and proceeded to paste a copy of it in every single sub-folder withing the plugin folder.

When I went to encode the movie….not only did it render seamlessly without any errors of any kind…it was about 50% faster at rendering.

So a word of advice….if you want to move your plugin files, make sure there are no unfinished projects on your computer, or export the project to a clean file before you start messing around.

[Vic Dennett]

I’ve just started on CS3 and read all this thread looking for answers.

When i try to export the movie (I want to play it in windows media player, I go to export, choose to export and am simply told export error with no ideas or explanation. Please can anyone help?

I’m learning to use it to teach it at my secondary school!

Many thanks

[Jon Barrie]

Have you installed Quicktime 7.0.0 or higher?

You need this to have proper QT export function.

Have you updated to 3.2?

Could be a bad install = reinstall.

– JB

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[John Reynolds]

Thanks for your reply…Yes I have Quicktime 7.6.2 installed. That”s one of the first things I looked into since it was a major cause of previous problems. Still in this day and age…crashes like this should not be happening. Adobe gets a ton of money for their products and they crash more often than some free programs I use. At least give me an error with an explanation so I can fix it….and not guess to what is wrong. The fact that problems like this has been happening for years and been mentioned in this forum and still not fixed or addressed with a concrete explanation make me wonder.

John

[Ashley Yu]

Actually, I’ve had the same pop up multiple times. I also remember the “Premiere pro is running low on memory” warning as well. I’m a student that is using the program for a school project that is actually due quite soon. I’m awfully confused and stressed at this point because i’ve tried all that I can, and I do not even have much in the timeline. I have a few tracks of audio, mostly still graphics, and a couple of video clips. I’ve tried exporting earlier while I was putting the film together(i had 3 min of film & 5 min of audio) to make sure it worked and it worked fine. For some reason, now I have about 10 minutes and it absolutely does not work for me. Any suggestions? I would really appreciate some help.

-AY

[Reuben Betts]

I get the same error messege when I am exporting video. When I drop the frame size to 960 540 the sequence will render. My edited sequence is about 8 min long and was captured in HD. I have tried what you said but am unable to get a high quality render. Hopefully I can figure this out so I can render at 1920×1080.