[Flick Harrison]

Bret! This is a really old post but today for the first time I had to do exactly this. Still works in 2018!

Thanks for the solve!

[Flick Harrison]

Aaah there it is – must have been a glitch; the search box had “keywords” clicked but it didn’t give me the list of keywords. Closed and opened it again and there was the list of keywords I’d been dreaming of.

[Flick Harrison]

I sure don’t like this. What if I add the same keyword in several events? I have to click the triangle next to each event and select the keyword collections. Slooooow and aimy. It’s basically telling me to manually search for the keyword.

Keywords are very powerful, I am using them for a research project but not quite as useful as if we could search. What about when I build up dozens or a hundred events in a big doc project?

There’s a text box right there – why can’t I type my keyword? Or bring up an interface where I select keywords and pick “show / hide” or something?

[Flick Harrison]

So this works (apply default transition to entire sequence), but I don’t know how to set the default transition length. No clicking, right-clicking etc in the effects -> transitions window gives me parameters to change. In FCP you could drag effects into the project bin… not sure how to do the same in Premiere.

Default transition is 1 second; I want 3 frames for audio dissolves.

[Flick Harrison]

Aha! I finally solved something on these forums.

The problem was that the HD where I was storing Adobe preview files etc was full. Somehow Premiere wasn’t able to tell me what the problem was, but when I tried, instead, to export, thinking I might deke around the render problem, it said the drive was almost full. There were 289k (!) left on there drive so I cleared up some space and my power to render came back!

error compiling movie psd premiere “video preview error”

[Flick Harrison]

I had a medium-difficult solution.

I tried everything mentioned in this thread, and finally Compressor Repair.

It couldn’t fix it, and recommended re-installing the whole thing. But it said I was missing the following files:

/usr/sbin/qmasterca
/usr/sbin/qmasterqd
/usr/sbin/qmasterd
/usr/sbin/qmasterprefs
/usr/local/lib/libhelium_mac.a

It looked like this for each:

/usr/local/lib/libhelium_mac.a does not exist. You are advised to reinstall Compressor / Qmaster.

So I decided to use Time Machine to restore them. I’m finally in love with Time Machine!

But Time Machine wouldn’t show hidden files, including the /usr/ folder.

So I had to turn on “Reveal Hidden Files”

https://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/34132

‘Cos I didn’t feel like attacking this task in the terminal. Yeesh! I had to manually click through all the backups with the /usr/local/lib/ folder open, until I finally found the files.

BTW, the search function in Time Machine wouldn’t find them, either ‘cos spotlight doesn’t index hidden files, or Time Machine won’t find them, but I was pleasantly surprised that Reveal Hidden Files actually stayed active in Time Machine! Stroke of luck.

So then I restored these files, except for libhelium_mac.a which wasn’t present in any backup. ??!?

Now compressor is chugging away as always.

The problem seems to have arisen – judging from the date when the files disappeared from the Time Machine backups – when I had a particularly harsh video card crash, corrupted my system while trying to diagnose / repair the card, then had to do an archive-install via my Mac repair guy.