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PPro CS4 won’t render my sequence
Everytime I send a sequence to Media Encoder, it just sits there. And sits and sits, etc. At the bottom it just says “Loading “Gleaner_Shoot.prproj”.
I’m using a 2008 Mac with 8 cores with 16 gigs of ram.
My footage came from the Canon HV20. I have clips at both 24p and 1080i.
I’m setting up my sequences to match the clips I’m placing in them.
One thing of note is I’m really only using 3 looong clips. Since CS4 doesn’t do scene detection well. I opted to instead make subclips from the long clips and use those. 2 of them are about 30 minutes long and one is nearly an hour. Could this be the problem?
Thing is, this happens even when I do a 1-minute sequence test.
It even happens when I try to use a test sequence which contains only audio.
I’ve tried outputting to quicktime and MPEG 2. I was careful to set the export settings to match the sources.
After a long wait, Media Encoder gives up and I get a warning icon in the status column. It says this:
– Source File: /Users/johnstanowski/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Gleaner_Shoot.prproj
– Output File: /Users/johnstanowski/Desktop/THURDAY.mov
– Preset Used: Custom
– Video:
– Audio:
– Bitrate:
– Encoding Time: 00:11:07
Tue Aug 4 13:19:39 2009 : Encoding Failed
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Could not read from the source. Please check if it has moved or been deleted.
—————————————————————————–”I usually use After Effects so I’m not really up on Premiere that much, but I’ve used it a good bit in the past and never came across this problem.
Any ideas?
P.S. I just closed the whole project and started a new one with simple DV footage… and the same thing is happening. I’m beginning to think there’s a plugin or something messing with Premiere Pro. I think it’s a plugin because this problem is happening here at work and also at home.
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Problem Solved. After more investigation I found out the problem was indeed the plugin. Seems CS4 now likes to store all of the plugins in one central location. And this confuses Adobe Media Encoder. I have a ton of After Effects plugins and i found that many of them were saved in this new central location. I simply moved them to the AE plugins folder and now Premiere works fine. Kinda ridiculous this happened to begin with though. I lost two days.
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Yes, I always update the software and the OS as soon as they become available.
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Where can I find the central location? Thanks!
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I’m having the same problem and nothing seems to work. The difference for me is that I have no 3rd party plug-ins and it just started about 1 week ago not working. Just in case, where are the plugins located?
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On a Mac sometimes plugins will install into this folder:
user/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common
Not sure exactly where this would be on a PC but I imagine it’s very similar.
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