[Ivan Rhudick]

Thanks very much for the input. Based on this, and some other conversations, it sounds like making proxies makes things easier, and is the “better safe than sorry” option.

Thanks again!

[Ivan Rhudick]

Try exporting the photoshop doc as a quicktime movie, and then bring that into FCP. It only generated a one frame file, but I then created a freeze frame in FCP and was able to achieve the effect I wanted. Hope that helps.

Ivan Rhudick
San Francisco

[Ivan Rhudick]

I managed to open an earlier version from the Auto Save, and fortunately hadn’t lost much work.

Thanks again for your help, Jon.

Ivan Rhudick
San Francisco

[Ivan Rhudick]

The 99 files in the Media Cache are .mcdb files, FWIW.

[Ivan Rhudick]

Thanks Jon, but that didn’t do the trick. Still the same problem.

I noticed that there are still 99 items in my Media Cache, even after I “clean” it via the preferences. Should those still be there? Would it be bad to delete them manually?

I also tried deleting my Preview Files. That didn’t help either.

This really blows. I was literally on the last task of finishing an indie feature. The director has been working on this thing for four years. Last week I told him we were a week away from completion… and now this. 🙁

If you (or anyone else) have(/has) any other suggestions, I’m all ears.

[Ivan Rhudick]

Hi,

As it turns out, I was able to solve the problem simply by exporting to a different drive.

But to answer your questions, I’m on Mac OS 10.5.8, and AE CS4 (9.0.2).

Ivan Rhudick
San Francisco