Help!!!Can’t Condense PP project

[Eric Jurgenson]

The project manager works by making a copy of your original project. So you may need as much additional free space as the original project takes up. Then it’s up to you if you want to delete the original.

It sounds like you don’t have enough room on your hard drive.

[Richard Milner]

Thanks for your response

I’ve been away from PP for awhile, so please excuse the elementary level of the following questions. Is it safe to assume that the project and the video files are back up on to the same drive?

Does the project manager make temporary files before it write the condensed files on to the drive? If so, where do these temporary files reside during the condense?

Is it same to assume that you can assign a different drive from the existing project drive or media drives to copy the files on to?

If there is enough space, do you know of any other reasons why a condense would fail?

Thanks,

[Eric Jurgenson]

[Richard Milner] “Is it safe to assume that the project and the video files are back up on to the same drive?”

It depends how you set up your scratch disk settings in preferences.

[Richard Milner] “Does the project manager make temporary files before it write the condensed files on to the drive? If so, where do these temporary files reside during the condense?”

Probably. Maybe in the media cache (see scratch disk settings).

[Richard Milner] “Is it same to assume that you can assign a different drive from the existing project drive or media drives to copy the files on to?”

Yes.

[Richard Milner] “If there is enough space, do you know of any other reasons why a condense would fail?”

Project manager doesn’t like to condense HDV or other long GOP formats.

[Tim Kolb]

Exactly what is failing?

Is the app crashing?

I assume you have space on the destination drive?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects

[Richard Milner]

Tim,

sorry for delaying getting back to you. I had to gather some info.
There is enough space on the destination drive. The app is crashing and gives us a messages saying something like “try and save it and do it again”.

Before the message the condensed project starts writes files for hours, but it never gets to the project file. I’m having this problem on a half a dozen drives or more.

Also, when we export just the project file, the project doesn’t open.

Is there someone that I can send a drive to try tourble shoot this?

[Eric Jurgenson]

It’s really hard to say what your problem is without examining your source project. My guess is that Premiere is still using space on your almost full project drive (even though you are copying to another drive), and the drive is filling up at some point. Maybe setting the media cache drive location to a drive with some space available would help – this is a guess.

Is forgetting about trimming and just copying the whole project to an external drive an option? With desktop drives going for $225./TB, space is pretty cheap (Check out the Seagate Free Agent Pro drives).