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PP CS4 timeline won’t play
When I send a video to media encoder or have any number of random applications open, Premiere stops responding. It doesn’t lock up (though it has crashed several times editing mpg files) it just doesn’t respond when you hit the space bar, JKL, or click play on the program monitor. You can scrub around but not play. Sometimes I can get it to work again by closing media encoder and sometimes not. Sometimes it radomly starts working again.
Very frustrating as CS3 was a rock on my Dell Precision 390.
Anybody seen this or know if this is a known issue?
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I used to get that with CS3. I found if I saved the project it worked again. Or if I pressed the play/stop button.
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I might check if the display card drivers have a newer driver that is approved by Adobe…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,CPO, Digieffects
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I had the exact same issue. Clips would play in the trimmer window, I could scrub the timeline, but the timeline simply would not play no matter where the cursor head was. Long story short – there is a clip reference in your sequence that is somehow corrupt and causing this. Select half the entire sequence and delete it. Try to play. If it woks then the errant clip is in the bit you just deleted. Undo and repeat this process till you hone in on the single clip that, when present, for some reason prevents the timeline from playing. Delete it from the sequence and you’re fixed.
I didn’t try to re-insert the dud clip onto the timeline in my case (didn’t need to – it was disabled anyway), but give that a try and see if it still works.
In my case it appears to have happened when I dynamically-link imported the clip into After Effects for some comping. The AE sequence was fine, but the original clip which I had kept on the timeline as a backup reference got screwed.
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YUP CORRECT!
had the exact same problem, followed the procedure mentioned above and found out that I had as well a disabled clip F***kin up my timeline. I remembered after that the problem happened just after I disabled that clip! so don´t just disable them, get rid of em!
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Well, that may sometimes be the problem though as I was researching that problem here I came back to Premiere to try the suggested solution but before I could it started playing again.
Thus it could also just be a CPU issue or the fact that it’s made by Adobe and resides on Windows.
Also, I’ve rebooted in the past and it started working again.
The rain dancing and swearing failed however.
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