[Joe Bender]

Hey guys,
I’ve been banging my head against this problem all day. First everything stops playing in Premiere — not just one project, all of them; not just PPro 2015, but also 2014 — and then I eventually reinstall and get video playback back, but still no audio!

I’ve tried systematically adjusting all the parameters in the audio preference panel, as I said I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled, I tried all of Darva’s suggestions above, and nothing has changed. Any other thoughts?I’m at my wits’ end.

Thanks in advance,

Joe

[Joe Bender]

Hi Todd,
Thanks for your reply.
The external enclosure does have an onboard RAID controller — it’s a Storeva AluICE XXL mini (https://www.storeva.com/fr/AluICE-XXL-mini-94.html — I bought this enclosure in France) with 2x 2TB Seagate Momentus Spinpoint M9T 2,5″ disks. Not my favorite disks, but it’s what was available and I needed this drive in a hurry. I didn’t have my laptop with me that day and I formatted the drive on Windows rather than doing the ExFAT format on Mac (as I have done in the past). I have used other enclosures from the same manufacturer, formatted in ExFAT, on both Windows and Mac.

Anything else I might try to get it to mount?

Thanks again,

Joe

[Joe Bender]

Hi Ted,
Did you ever work out why this was happening? I’m having the same problems with a rather large documentary project — as the project has grown (now ca. 180MB), it’s become almost completely unusable, crashing within minutes on the simplest operations (paste or nudge a clip in the timeline, an undo, etc.). I was familiar with this problem in FCP7, and honestly it’s one of the reasons I was excited to switch to Premiere. Opening other projects through the Media Browser in 2014.1 is a workaround while I’m finishing my current assembly edit — I had to export my assembly sequence as a separate project and selectively import the elements I needed through the Media Browser.

Any thoughts on how to set up/manage a large project to avoid this issue? Otherwise it makes Premiere basically unusable for longform documentary, and we’re actually considering transcoding everything and switching to Avid for the next phase of shooting/editing… Aie! Don’t want to go down that road.

Thanks in advance!

Joe
rMBP 2.3GHz i7 16GB GeForce GT 750M 2GB OSX 10.9.5

[Joe Bender]

Hi Kate,
I’m having the same problem. Did you work out a solution to this?

Thanks!

Joe

[Joe Bender]

Thank you for your response,

Premiere Pro 2014 crashes on launch when loading any MediaCore plugin. I’m going to try uninstall/reinstall once I’m at a place with my projects where I can take the time.

[Joe Bender]

Thank you for your response,

Premiere Pro 2014 crashes on launch when loading any MediaCore plugin. I’m going to try uninstall/reinstall once I’m at a place with my projects where I can take the time.

[Joe Bender]

I’m sure there are others who can answer this question better than I can, but from my limited experience as a relatively new Premiere user, you have a couple of options. You can import SRT files directly to Premiere as closed captions, which keeps them more mobile but severely limits your formatting options, or you can use a script called pt_ImportSubtitles (https://aescripts.com/pt_importsubtitles/) to import them through After Effects as regular title items. The second option is probably better for your purposes, since you can define a template and it sounds like you won’t be authoring the titles in Premiere, but just using it to burn them in.
That said, if you already have your clean video mastered and you just need to make language-specific versions with burned-in titles, you may well be better off using a titling-specific program (I’m not familiar with Swift).

Hope that helps!

[Joe Bender]

Ok, that makes sense, I’ll give it a try. Many thanks!

Joe

[Joe Bender]

This is all great advice – I will try both the compressor technique and timing the volume for quiet scenes and see which sounds best. Many, many thanks to all of you for responding and for such detailed (and editor friendly) help!

[Joe Bender]

Many thanks Michael and Peter for your advice. @Peter, I may have overstated the problem re. the dynamic range in my original post. Some passages are quiet, but it’s not as extreme as a serious theatrical mix, as we mixed the film overall with both projection and DVDs in mind. With that said, it sounds like I may need to reduce the dynamic range a bit.

By the way, I also misstated our original level above – the original mix peaks at -2dB.

So another question: in working through my limited toolbox looking for possible solutions one thing I came across is a “Match Volume” tool in Soundbooth CS5. It analyzed the file – it tells me Volume -20.11dB, Perceived volume -17.88dB, Peak -2dB – and has an option “Match to Peak Volume,” which apparently “Makes peaks equally loud, retaining dynamic range, but also extreme differences in overall volume.” I believe this is normalizing the peaks to the target volume. When I use the tool to match peak vol to -6dB the resulting clip has volume -24.11dB, perceived volume -21.88dB, peak -6dB. From those figures it seems like SB just cut the levels by 4db. Does this sound like an acceptable procedure? Is this different at all from the distributor making dubs of the master at a lower level?

Thanks again!

Joe