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Premiere Pro CS4 project won’t open
Hi – I’ve been working on a project in Premiere Pro CS4, and as of this afternoon, the project will no longer open.
When I try to open the project, Premiere starts to launch, but when the “Load Project” window opens, the countdown/time remaining bar gets about 75% of the way across, then just stops.
When I open the “Force Quit Applications” window on my Mac, it does NOT say the application is not responding.
I’ve tried opening older versions from the Auto-Save vault, going back a couple of days, and the same thing happens.
I’ve tried opening a brand new PPro project, which does work, and then importing either the entire project, or just a selected timeline, and the same thing happens.
I tried opening it via Adobe Bridge, and… yeah, same thing.
I’ve also tried trashing my Premiere preferences, and that didn’t help either.
I am, of course, on the last leg of this project.
I’m working on Mac Os 10.5.8, if that’s of any help.
Please advise, thank you.
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6 Replies
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I would try this:
Open a New project with nothing in it. Then go to the Preferences and clean the media cache.
Close PPro and relaunch. Then try to import the project into a new one again.
You might have a corrupted file that won’t go through while its still accessing the same cache for it. So a clean might help you rebuilt it.
– Jon
Jon Barrie
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Thanks Jon, but that didn’t do the trick. Still the same problem.
I noticed that there are still 99 items in my Media Cache, even after I “clean” it via the preferences. Should those still be there? Would it be bad to delete them manually?
I also tried deleting my Preview Files. That didn’t help either.
This really blows. I was literally on the last task of finishing an indie feature. The director has been working on this thing for four years. Last week I told him we were a week away from completion… and now this. 🙁
If you (or anyone else) have(/has) any other suggestions, I’m all ears.
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The 99 files in the Media Cache are .mcdb files, FWIW.
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I managed to open an earlier version from the Auto Save, and fortunately hadn’t lost much work.
Thanks again for your help, Jon.
Ivan Rhudick
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it’s insane that this program does this. such a widespread issue. i’m dealing with it right now, and so far nothing has worked:
– deleted cache / preview files
– moved all captured movie files to external drive
– open project from both finder and from file->open
– import project into a new one
– open last “autosave”ALL result in nothing. just gets hung up on loading the project. I’m pretty sick of Adobe at this point. I’d use FCP but I don’t have it at work.
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i ended up importing it to After Effects and then exporting it again and it worked fine. so frustrating.
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