[Ginger Gentile]

Hi Angelo,
silly question, as I am new to Premier:
how do you import an old project into a new one? Do you need to import all media and secuences individually?
Is this the same as opening up an older version of the project or creating a copy of the project?
I too have a project that is crashing on autosave.
thanks!

[Ginger Gentile]

I waited an hour and the files conformed. I played back a few seconds (worked) and then hit save project. Premier freezed again.
How can I trouble shoot this? I can´t even check settings on the project because it keeps freezing on me.
thanks!

[Ginger Gentile]

I did that and it keeps crashing, in one form or another.
Now, it won´t conform files, it freezes with 505 files left to conform. If I touch premier windows responds that the program is not responding.
This is happening on all my projects.
Is this something that can be taken care of with a reinstall of premier or is there some other way to trouble shoot?

[Ginger Gentile]

Thanks Alan!
Do I need a “Black Magic” or similar video card? An editor friend of mine recomended it.
when you say “if one drive in a raid 0 system fails, you loose everthing” that means I would loose all the other drives (this is not optimal for me)? could this be prevented by buying a Caldigit external raid drive?

[Ginger Gentile]

Thanks for responding, Craig. So I understand, the xdcam ex 1 will always give me a mp4 as a finished file–there is no other wrap around file for HD. The only way to get a mov file is to export it using the XDCAM transfer program.

I just wanted to double check because I don´t have the camera in front of me, the DoP is away for a few days. As I said, I´ve edited from the XDcam on Avid and FCP, and never any problem–footage is easy to work with and looks great. I´m willing to give a client the benefit of the doubt, but always want to be sure before I insist on what I think to be correct.

You´re right that the thread has nothting to do with xdcam, but they sent it to me as an example of how fcp doesn´t support mp4–even though the post says that the writer has a system problem, and that fcp can work with those files.

Once again, thanks for your clear and quick answer.