[Dennis Dean]

Can’t answer that last question – just don’t know. I’m wondering if the same type of fix could be used that works when I get a can’t render error… to find the offending clip I render out half of the timeline. If no problem, I know the offender is in the other half of the timeline… so I render that. You keep having the segment of timeline with the offender until you’re down to one clip – or effect – and that’s the culprit. No idea if this would apply to your situation but tossing it out for thought. Good luck! Hopefully other more experienced PP users will chime in at this point.

[Dennis Dean]

Have not run into it myself but if you haven’t tried this – reset all preferences for Premiere and get rid of DropBox. I try to keep all software off of my editing workstation to prevent interferences with Adobe Suite. If you’re talking about the commercial service “DropBox” I would relegate that to a different machine entirely as it is constantly running in the background. Or maybe turn it off first and see if that makes a difference.

[Dennis Dean]

Old home theatre projector size. Still 4:3 so treat it accordingly. I’ll often place it against a 16:9 motion background or textured background. … maybe enlarge until the fuzziness is objectionable, the reduce the size a tad. Anyway, that fills out the frame, and I’m on my way.. hope this helps!

[Dennis Dean]

Two options here…

Rather than hit “cancel,” hit the adjacent “Locate” button. A new window will open in which you can either locate the file(s) yourself, or you can hit a “Search” button and Premiere will look for the file(s) for you.

Rather than hit “Cancel” study the unchecked items that Premiere could not find. Write down a couple of the file names. Copy them exactly, with any spaces and punctuation. Then, search for them using your computer’s search mode. I have found entire batches of lost files that way. You find one item, often you find all of them if they were all kept together. Then, you can go back and hit the “locate” button and create a new path for the files.

[Dennis Dean]

Seems I had this issue some time back but do not recall if I found a technical fix within the software. I might have started the first scene on a different frame – there may be something that Premiere doesn’t like. OR – sometimes I just figure out a work around because that’s easier than determining the actual problem. Possibly starting your video with a still image for a few frames, then going to the clip.

[Dennis Dean]

Ryan,

I’ve also had that issue. Most of the time I’ve found it to be an effect (or too many simultaneous effects across tracks.) To find the offender, using the Render In/Out function, I render the video in halves. Render the first half of the video. If no problem occurs, the issue is in the 2nd half of the video. Problem? Divide that half into halves (each is now a quarter of the video). Keep dividing the “halves” in half and rendering. Eventually, you’ll get down to just a few seconds of video. In those few seconds (5 or 6) you’ll find the offender. It may be a clip. It may be an effect. This is a good place to use Jerry Wise’s track-by-track technique (above) for further isolation. Good luck!

[Dennis Dean]

The bargain basement cheap seats work-around could be to turn your image into a video clip and paste the keyframes into that. (Have’t tried it but this is the first thought that occurred to me… if you can paste opacity keyframes from video clip to video clip using Attributes this should work.)

[Dennis Dean]

I have used MPEG Streamclip to convert AVI files to to ProResLT (Just converted one to make sure) as well as the formats. I currently have it on a MacBook Pro running Hi Sierra (10.13.6).

Here’s the current link: http://www.squared5.com

I’m using version 1.9.3b7

Looks like there is a 1.9.3b8 beta available… It’s free. And there are other converters that could probably help.

Good luck!

[Dennis Dean]

Hi Abraham,

I can’t speak to your 2013 but I ran Premiere on a Mid 2014 with 2.5 Ghz i7 and 16 GB of memory – for several years quite successfully. I attached two monitors and an external Western Digital Passport drive, and went to town. Most of the time I was editing relatively simple 2-3 minute videos. Nothing extraordinarily complex. I can tell you the biggest thing that helped was converting ALL of my video to Pro Res. Any flavor. The stuff is made for editing. I tried editing MP4 a couple of times – the machine tended to go slow or falter. Otherwise I was pretty happy with performance. No problem running several tracks of video and audio… The Graphics card in this machine is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 750 M 2048 MB Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB. (reading from “About this Mac” I was running macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 I’d say if Premiere Pro has compatible version for it still, load it up and see what happens. I was also able to run PhotoShop simultaneously, for prepping graphics when needed. Good luck!

[Dennis Dean]

Thanks very much!

Dennis