Losing Renders!!!

[Darren Edwards]

It reads like your turning your machine off and
on willy-nilly? I’m sure this isn’t the case,
but a complete project save (Ctrl-S) before
you close PPro should save all the hitherto
rendered files you’ve created.

Theoretically, the only time rendered files are
lost is if their location has changed – i.e. the
folder’s been moved – or, maybe you need to check
you Edit/Preferences/Scratch Disks info, is case
your rendered files folder is somewhere were it
shouldn’t be.

Darren.

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[Baz Leffler]

PPro 2 has a bug (or at least their media management app that runs in the background). It thinks the renders are redundent usually because the area had been rendered more than once.

I am hoping CS3 has addressed this issue and I will soon be finding out

Baz

What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!

[Rhewitt]

It did it to me in 1.5 as well.

A 45-min project repeatedly needed rendering when starting editing for the day after shutting the machine down overnight.

I eventually found a work around – moved to Avid Media Composer!

[Ryan_j]

I’ve save the project always before shutting it down and the scratch disks are in the right place.
Could it be anything to do with the Hard drives?
The reason i mention this is that in an older system i was running 1.5 and had the same issue until the hard drives were re configured for a different reason and it fixed the problem. Not sure if it was a mapping or indexing prob (i’m not a pc guru so i may be way off the mark)?

[Ryan_j]

Thanks for the heads-up!! Prick of a bug! yep ctrl Z is my best friend.
Cheers
Ryan.

[Rhewitt]

The only thing that I’m aware of is the option to cache writes to the hard drives. XP (or other OS) will wait before writing to disk based on processor availability, cache fullness and drive availability and will attempt to make as few small writes as possible and instead do a few larger writes to save processor time.

However, when Windows (and other OS’s) shutdown, delayed write caches are written to disk before the PC switches off.

If write errors were the problem, you’d be losing all forms of data, not just renders.

[Ryan_j]

Thanks for the info. If you find out anymore can you let me know.
Thanks again
Ryan.

[Mike Velte]

Some networks have a automatic janitor that purges My Documents and other folders after a reboot.

[Ryan_j]

Thanks for your help Mike. I’ll keep trying to narrow it down.
It loses them sometimes even when i’m still in the project. One of the guys early in this post said prem pro 2 has a bug that can cause this. I’m starting to think this may be my problem.
Cheers
Ryan