PTT Problem

[Ravi Makhija]

Hey, you can always turn Auto Save off in Preferences -> Auto Save.

[Alex Hawkins]

Well I don’t think that’s really a solution as it didn’t occur in CS2.

Alex

[Scot Sheely]

In previous versions, auto-save was temporarily disabled when exporting to tape.

At least the previous suggestion to disable it manually is a valid work-around until the issue is fully resolved by Adobe.

My suggestion would be to call Adobe support and ask them about this. They really need to know about it so they can include the fix in their next patch / update.

Good luck!

Scot

[Alex Hawkins]

Cool, thanks Scott, will do.

I take it that you have experienced this yourself?

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Scot Sheely]

Alex,

I have never experienced this issue personally.

In the past I have exported to both DV and VHS with no problems whatsoever using PPRO 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0. Hopefully I will be upgrading to CS3 in the next 3 or 4 months.

I do recall being a big guinea pig with PPRO 1.0, though. Lots of bugs in PPRO and Encore. Both seemed to crash at the drop of a hat, destroying days / weeks worth of work.

I actually taught the Adobe phone support reps at least 2 dozen new work-around tricks I discovered within the first 4 months of that version’s release. Rarely were they able to actually assist me with any real, workable solutions, although, God bless them, they sure did try. It wasn’t from lack of williness to help, it was that PPRO and Encore were both completely revamped / new applications.

I am very grateful that the development team has been so responsive in fixing bugs and adding much-needed features to the later versions of the suite. IMHO, it has only gotten much better. There are still a few roads to travel down (like network multi-user editing workflow, batch rendering in PPRO, just like in AE, etc.). They will get there, and when they do, I believe that the Adobe suite / video collection / whatever they decide to call it will persevere and overshadow Avid and FCP in movie and television production, due mainly to their tight integration with the other applications.

As it stands now, After Effects and Photoshop are the De Facto industry standards for their respective applications, dwarfing nearly all other programs in the same class (I still like Motion and Shake, though!).

Anyway, I digress. Good luck with resolving this issue, please let me know how you finally conquer the problem, I would appreciate that.

Scot

[Alex Hawkins]

Gday Scott,

It seems that disabling autosave is the only workaround for me at the moment. This is when I am using File/Export to Tape to a DNW-A75P SX machine.

Do you have a link for informing Adobe of these sorts of things?

Thanks,

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia