[Keith Emroll]

I’m creating the slide show on a Windows 8 PC using PowerPoint 2010. I don’t recall what the Mac OS and PowerPoint versions are that I’m running the show on. However, I can’t even get it to function properly on the PC.

I have tried H.264/MP4, but that won’t play when I put it on the Mac.

[Keith Emroll]

Stan,

Gave this a try, but it didn’t seem to work for me. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Keith

[Keith Emroll]

This seems to have worked. I actually rendered it as an MP3 and it sounded fine.

Thanks for the help!

[Keith Emroll]

I’m running Windows Vista Home Premium.

And P.S. to John: I had to move the Audio into one of the other tracks in the Multi sequence while I edited, because when I made cuts, it cut the audio track, too, and deleted everything that came after.

[Keith Emroll]

John, you are a life saver!!!

You should definitely do a tutorial! Here’s what I did, based on your suggestion:

– Unlinked the audio from the video on both cameras in the Synch sequence
– Deleted the audio from the Audio 2 track (I wasn’t using it anyway)
– Cut the Audio 1 track and placed it a separate sequence for later use, thereby leaving only video in the Synch sequence
– I repeated the “unlink and delete” for the Multi sequence, too, since I already had about 25 minutes’ worth of footage edited and didn’t want to lose that work
– I saved the project, exited Premiere, and – just to be safe – deleted the Encoded Files and Preview Files again
– I re-launched Premiere, copied the Audio 1 track into the Multi sequence, and everything seems to be working like a champ

Since I have a whole second performance night to edit after this one, I’m going to do this from now on whenever I have long multi-camera programs to edit.

Thank you so much! I feel like a huge weight has been taken off my shoulders.

Here’s hoping I won’t have any further troubles like this.

All the best,
Keith

[Keith Emroll]

Before John’s response, I ran an error fixing program, but still got the runtime error when I tried to import the specific sequences again.

Next, I deleted all of the folders that Premiere puts in (Auto Save, Encoded Files, and Preview Files). I started a new project, imported the entire project, and I still get the “Rendering Required Files” when I try to edit the multi-camera sequence.

Does anyone have any further suggestions?

[Keith Emroll]

I tried creating a new project and importing the sequences, but I got a Runtime Error [R6025 – pure virtual call] after I selected the specific sequences to import.

Do you have any suggestions for getting around that?

[Keith Emroll]

I won’t have a chance to try any of this stuff until this afternoon, but I’m hoping it will work. I do have two last (possibly silly) questions.

1. You said to import the existing sequences into a new project. Am I correct in assuming that you mean both the “synch” sequence (the one where I have the separate video tracks synched together) and the “multi” sequence (the one where I enable the multi-camera editing)?

2. I’ve never imported a sequence from another project into a separate Premiere project. How do you do that? I don’t recall ever seeing an actual file in my folders that suggests it’s a sequence file. To put it another way, if I want to import some raw footage or title cards, I can do a “File – Import” (or just click and drag) to get a .AVI file for raw footage or a .PNG file for title cards into the project. How do I do that with a sequence that’s part of another project?

Thanks!
Keith

[Keith Emroll]

Thanks, Chris. I’ll give that a try.

I’m curious, though, now that you mentioned Preview Files. I noticed that in the folder where I keep the footage and all the project assets, Premiere creates three folders: Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save, Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files, and Encoded Files.

Since your suggestion results in the purging of the preview files, do you think that the same thing would be accomplished by simply deleting the contents of the Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files folder? It contains several .PEK and .CFA files that constitute a not-insignificant amount of memory (about 1.33 GB).

Do you think that would work, thereby avoiding the need to create and import the sequences into a new project?

Keith

[Keith Emroll]

Ann,

When I did it the first time (which I can’t remember how I did it!), it played in Quicktime with no stretching. However, having a VLC player as another resource will be helpful in the future, I’m sure. Thanks for suggesting it!

Keith