[Lance Bauerfeind]

I’ve had this a couple of times.

Try unlinking then relinking your clips.

Worked for me but don’t know why it happens.

Lance

[Lance Bauerfeind]

do any other shortcut keys work? I had that problem once and the keyboard shortcuts file was corrupted. if it is just reinstall or get someone elses.

Lance

[Lance Bauerfeind]

6 months ago I finished a documentary that finished up at 80mins long. I swore after that experience I would never use Premiere to edit a large project again.
Now I still use it for my real job – 15 sec and 30 sec tv ads, 2-3min corporate promos etc and it works fine no problems.

The issue is I think in it’s memory handling. Go above 50mb in project size and … problems. I believe premiere has changed the way it handles it’s media eg images are saved within the project and are not linked. So you have a cut 80mins, add images, subtitles and then do a bunch of colour correction and watch your project go from 50mb to 280mb just like that. I found if you render then minimize premiere your memory usage will drop considerably (but cs3 doesn’t allow minimizing I believe).

I also ended up with random glitches after rendering and could not figure out why until I learnt that on big projects the preview files can get corrupted and produce glitches. Delete the previews and re-render and all should be fine but re-rendering can take a long time.

I agree with others in saying:
break it up into small bits eg 8 minutes
render out each part as avi’s and put into a master project
use the task manager to monitor your memory usage
buy ram and anything else that gives your machine more umphh!

I will still use it but just for the regular stuff.

BTW Out of the blue photoshop starting crashing when I tried to open a second file – turns out you cannot have a network printer as your default or crash! This never happened to me until 2 weeks ago so I don’t what happened there.

cheers
Lance

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[Lance Bauerfeind]

I understand that premiere’s audio is a good one and doesn’t average out levels – but I could be wrong on that. I have left the realms of my knowledge so have decided to get an audio gut in to sort it out. thanks for your advice.

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[Lance Bauerfeind]

The meters inside of premiere pro.

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[Lance Bauerfeind]

Not quite sure what you mean by what’s happening to it but having spent this time talking to you I think I need to do more testing as I’ve realised there are many places the problems could be and I need to narrow it down before coming back.

cheers Ty and thanks for your help.

Lance

[Lance Bauerfeind]

No I work for a company called AlphaMedia Productions.

The levels are the same coming out of Premiere but thinking about it, it may be with the encoding the ads to mpg2. Fundamentally though we are saying that the levels are fine from us but the broadcaster (who is part of the organisation) are saying that our productions are broadcasting at different volume ie some are louder, some are softer. Which is why they want to capture off tape so they control the levels – which means it is a levels problem not volume?

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[Lance Bauerfeind]

Thanks for your reply Ty. I am in New Zealand but if you’re over here you are more than welcome.

I will organise one audio person as per your suggestion.

As for hardware is it a case of having to calibrate sound cards? or do we need to make sure that every machine’s master volume control is at the same setting and then other steps from there?

cheers

Lance

[Lance Bauerfeind]

Can you uninstall from device manager?

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[Lance Bauerfeind]

As soon as you start AE hold down shift,Alt,Ctrl and you will be asked if you want to reset your preference file.

As for the Vegas issue, sorry I can’t help.

Lance