[David Jackson]

I took the lens and mic off and put the parts in my backpack wrapped in a towel, and checked the giant case I have for it. Didn’t have any trouble. I just reset the back focus before I shot again.

TSA thought the camera was awesome when I set it in the gray trays, but it didn’t make me stand out. I had a harder time with my PS3, honestly.

[David Jackson]

…nevermind. It didn’t fix it at all. I’m really wondering if I’m going to have to reinstall Windows at this point.

[David Jackson]

Thanks for the suggestions. I unplugged the firewire and docked the preview window on the primary screen, but to no avail.

EDIT: Yanking out ATI Catalyst and reinstalling *just* the display drivers seems to have fixed the problem. Fingers are crossed.

[David Jackson]

Thanks for the tips! I didn’t know about the secret preferences, which I will check out presently. Also, that post you linked had a lot of good information for the problem.

We’re fine on codecs. I went into the DirectShow filters with DSFMgr and reset a few things that didn’t look like they should be shut off. This didn’t help, which was too bad because I felt like a pro playing with a giant list of memory addresses.

At this point, stuck on 15% load, I decided to remove the clips that it was getting stuck on, and it finished up just fine. The only thing unique about them is that they were cropped and resized to fit the frame. Apparently After Effects doesn’t know what to do with that? I don’t know why that would break things, but it DID allow me to load the save file.

I’ve heard a lot of people say to change the render engine away from OpenGL, but I have an ATI FireGL graphics card, so I would think I’d have a leg up on OpenGL rendering. Should I still change it for what people seem to agree is improved performance?

(Our system specs: Dual Xeon 3.7Ghz, 4(3)GB RAM , 1TB RAID-0 data drive, 180GB Raptor system drive, 1GB ATI FireGL graphics card)

Thanks again, Bart. You rule!
DJ

[David Jackson]

I’m involved in this project with Kim as well, and I can clarify the problem for you.

We have an edited movie in Premiere Pro, at 1280×720 HDV. We want to get that movie into After Effects for color grading.

Choosing FILE > IMPORT on the pproj file works, as does simply copy/pasting the timeline from Premiere into a new composition.

The problem is that once we have the project imported and choose to save and close the program, it will never re-open the saved file, instead giving us the “out of memory” or AVI/DirectShow error – it seems because it’s trying to load all the uncompressed mpeg clips into memory as the project loads.

We could actually do all our color correction in one sitting, without saving, but that’s a little unrealistic.

Thank you very much for your help!
David Jackson