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trimming project error
I use the project manager trim function a lot in CS3 to consolidate to externals for storage. Ive never had a problem until now. One project absolutley will not cooperate no matter where I try to save it to or how many times I reboot. It keeps getting a serious error message that Premiere has encountered a problem and must shut down. Other projects are fine except for that one. Anyone have any clue as to where I can start looking for answers? Could it be a corrupt file?
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Is the project using AVI files or MPG based? Trimming function don’t work with the files other than AVI based. HDV won’t do it coz it’s based on MPG codec.
– Jon 😉How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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Having worked with all versions of PP from 1.0 to CS3, in both SD & HD formats I have trimmed hundreds of jobs over the years and have experienced this problem randomly throughout on all versions of PP!
As the PCs I have used have also had a variety of configurations of drive space, processors and RAM etc, and many jobs have been up to 200GB in raw video it’s been hard to specifically determine what causes this, but when I observe the PCs perfomance in Task Manager it will generally happen when the pagefile usage hits around 1.3-1.5GB. I have tried adjusting this and have used PCs with large scratch disks (500GB plus) and 3-4GB of memory but it makes no difference at all.
The only solution I have found is to progressively breakdown the job in to smaller components and attempt to trim them until the error stops. As we have some jobs that initially occupy a single timeline that lasts over 3 hours, sometimes they will trim and sometimes they don’t so it’s a real lottery.
I would love to know why this happens as it’s very time consuming to break down and re-trim, but so far it’s the only ‘fix’ I know unless someone else has founds a magic solution!
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scott-
There are a couple of things that I’ve found help with those stubborn projects (most of the time, not always). First, rename the project (long names and punctuation occasionally seem to be problematic). Make sure you aren’t sending it to (or from) a complicated path – a root folder is more likely to succeed (on any drive). Try copying all used to a new location (without previews) first and then trim that clean project. Finally, make sure all the files ARE trimmable – HDV and MPEG2 files won’t trim, certain compressed audio files can jam the works also. Finally, just accept that sometimes, not often, they just won’t trim – like life, it’s not perfect!!
good luck.slainte,
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Further to my post earlier, I forgot to mention that the Project file size seems to be a factor too. If it’s hitting around 20MB or above it tends to increse the chances of it falling over during the trim.
Funny enough I’ve had further proof of this as I tried to trim a 21MB job this morning and it failed, so I split it into two 7MB and 14MB jobs respectively and hey preso they both trimmed!
Just to also add that when I do this I remove any unused assets from the project bin when I split jobs to doubly ensure that they are as ‘compact’ as possible (but whether this actually has any real bearing or not I don’t know!). I sometimes delete older conformed audio files and let the jobs reconform again upon re-opening, but today I didn’t bother!
Dave
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the files are .avi however occasionally I will do a project in HDV. I didnt realize that was a problem
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will try that. thank you very much
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