wont load project

[Eddie Lotter]

[Aske Jørgensen] “I have a backup file but it is around one week old!”

What about the auto-saved copies?

Also try this: FAQ:How do I recover a corrupt project?

Cheers
Eddie

[Aske Jørgensen]

You’re the best, Eddie :p

I can open those – just perfect! But for some reason Premiere won’t play one of my sequences..!? The other sequences work fine.
When I scroll with my time-indicator the frames change but theres no “scrolling-sound” and when I press play nothing happens.. I’ve tried to render a preview as well but without a result!

[Eddie Lotter]

It seems like there may be corruption in that sequence.

Try to import the project with the problem sequence into a new project then open the sequence and see if it behaves itself.

If that doesn’t work you can try to copy everything in the problem sequence and paste it into a new sequence.

Good luck. 🙂

Cheers
Eddie

[Jeff Goin]

I’m having the same problem. Dead in the water right now unable to work on my project at all.

I’ve got about 1200 clips and, while editing away, the program started to degrade–things weren’t behaving right. I figured I better save and exit gracefully which, surprisingly, seemed to work.

When I went to reopen the project it would almost get finished loading, then the program would hang up. Forever. I left it go overnight one time.

So now

I’m in the middle of a project involving four 80 minute training videos and this has stopped me in my tracks. I’m trying the FAQ on recovering a project but, if this happens very often, it’s clear I chose the wrong platform. This has happened on one other project but, thankfully, a relatively recent autosave brought it back.

Do others have this problem periodically?

Jeff G.
“If there’s air there, it should be flown in” – FootFlyer.com

[Jon Barrie]

I am thinking your project file size is quite large and having 4 x 80 min = 320min edited seq u r pushing the system too hard. Try to import the proj file into a new one. If you get it in save as and remove some seq to break up the project into smaller projects. Like 1 80min per project. Then remove unused files.
This will dramatically reduce the project file size and reqd indexing of media stabilizing the project.

I doubt any system or OS would be more stable with such a large project. I use fcp all the time and I’d never push a project with more than 2hr edit = 120mins.

If the import panics when finding all ur media u might have to trick it into being offline. Change the folder name of the media and import the old proj. When it asks for files select offline all.

Save as copy before doing anything else. Then save as copy name it a simplified version 1 edit a time and remove unused all while it’s offline.

When u have broken it all down and have 4 single edit proj files close ppro. Change the media folder back to what it was before and open one of the smaller projects. It may find the media for u, if not finding 1 clip should direct everything else after it.

Hope this gets u back up and running.

– JB

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jeff Goin]

JB,

Thanks for taking the time.

The project is comprised of four sequences, as you suggest, and I’m working on one at a time. I did load a lot of the clips because I have to be able to browse them. Maybe that’s a mistake, especially if stability is an issue with doing all the indexing.

IF so, how do you deal with a large number of clips? I probably have several thousand, all painstakingly titled for easier text search which CS4 seems to handle well. That’s part of why I went through all the naming trouble.

I’m trying right now to recover what I can but worry about the project’s future.

Sadly, although I had the entire 84 minute audio narration is laid down on video 1, there was only actually about 4 minutes of finished work on the timeline.

Thanks again,

Jeff

Jeff G.
“If there’s air there, it should be flown in” – FootFlyer.com

[Jon Barrie]

U can use bridge to search for clips an add them to the project as required.

What kind of project are u working on? How many clips are u working with and what format are they?

– JB

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jeff Goin]

JB,

Greetings. I’ve tried the XML Wrench tool and it reports valid media that’s “well formed,” whatever that means.

I’ve disconnected the remote drive holding my media files and tried to open the file, hoping to load my sequences and clips with “offline” so that I might recover them manually. Not that I really know how to do that.

Even with the drive disconnected, the project hangs up during load, getting about 3/4 of the way done. There is no drive activity after that and no indication that anything is happening.

The project is hdv with the vast majority of clips being .m2t files from various canon hdv cameras. There are also .mov files from maxon cinema 4d animations and a very few low-def .wmv files. It was all working before the crash that killed it all.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Jeff G.
“If there’s air there, it should be flown in” – FootFlyer.com

[Jeff Goin]

The project is a series of training videos (Master Powered Paragliding, https://www.FootFlyer.com). I’ll look at bridge and will now abandon my existing work and start anew with a different paradigm, probably not letting an individual project getting more than one chapter long (max of about 12 minutes).

Thanks for your help.

Jeff G.
“If there’s air there, it should be flown in” – FootFlyer.com

[Tom Reilly]

Jon Barrie your are the man!!!!!!!!!!

Thankyou so much.

I just couldn’t get my project files to open but by importing them I now have them all operating smoothly in Premiere CS4 ready for export.

Thankyou, thankyou.

Tom R