Eugene Siew
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Actually, I might have in that one instance, but I thought I’d canceled it. Thing is, I left my laptop alone for a couple of hours that time, and when I came back it had turned green, so I don’t know for sure. I’ve not rendered any previews in all the other instances, and don’t intend on doing so; it’d just be the same for FC7 when I had to render audio before I could edit.
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Yeah, I tried that one time and it did index (or transcode?) the file completely, or rather the thin bar right below the time marker turned green instead of yellow. I’ll try that and hopefully this’ll do the trick.
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Ok, re-deleted, re-installed and re-updated everything (had to do that by opening Media Encoder, then Help -> Updates). Opened my existing Premiere project and got the “Media pending” screen again; still no “Conforming Media” progress bar on the bottom-right, so I had to wait a couple of minutes before I saw a video thumbnail again in the Project panel. Still getting the same playback hanging issues. Activity Monitor’s showing 113% on playback, which is a *slight* improvement. It drops to 100.5% after pausing, which I suspect is because it’s still conforming media or transcoding in the background, but for the life of me I don’t know where to find a process monitor in Premiere (FC X has this!)
Does it matter that this is a 53 min MP4 that I’m trying to work with?
I think I’m going to try 5.5 and see if I get any issues.
I’m using OS X v10.7.4.
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Ok, re-installed by deleting Premiere/Encore with all Preferences, ran Disk Utility to repair permissions, then restarted, started Adobe Download Manager to re-download the DMG which, thankfully, didn’t have a checksum error. Fired it up, created a test project, closed the project (which caused Premiere to crash), downloaded and applied the updates, restarted Premiere, opened an old project, and was able to scrub through the video. Used Media Browser to go to a folder containing a bunch of Flip-recorded MP4s, which caused Prelude to kick into overdrive (no thumbnails showed; all MP4s were “Processing”), left that and went back to the project and sequence, but now all the media took the usual amount of time to go back online; in the meantime, I had the same video hanging issues. I’m just shy of finding a copy of CS5.5 to see if that’ll solve my problems… It’s getting very frustrating.
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Ok, after opening an existing project (containing about 1:23 of audio/video, 4 titles and dissolves), it takes at least a minute for the media to “go online” (Premiere doesn’t say what it’s doing; no “Conforming Media” dialog on the bottom-right or any other indication, just wait until I see the thumbnail in the Project tab). (Hover-)Scrubbing is virtually non-existent, and playback doesn’t always work, i.e. it might play a couple of seconds before video hangs (audio continues though). I checked Activity Monitor during playback, and it’s reading 120% CPU and 31 threads with 475.9MB of real mem used.
Basically, video “hangs” for a minute or so before I can do anything, though I can still access the options, i.e. editing and rendering. I feel like this wasn’t a problem prior to the first time it crashed (sorry for not mentioning that earlier). When re-downloading the trial, I kept getting an “invalid checksum” error on the dmg, even after uninstalling Premiere and Encore and re-downloading the dmg. I’m just shy of reinstalling everything on my laptop, but I’ll lose at least half a workday doing that, and I want to avoid that as much as possible.
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Hi Jake,
Thanks for replying, I think I’ll just be reverting back to Final Cut 7 for now, it’s disheartening that something as simple as this isn’t as intuitive in Premiere, I really want to like it but it’s too powerful in the wrong areas and terrible for the things I need to do.
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I re-linked, and the filenames still show my MP4 ones, even though checking the properties show the ProRes LT clips. Is that to be expected?