[Matthieu Mailhé]

I think I get your problem :

The .prproj opened with TextEdit should read “real” english words, not the strange characters/Elvish paragraphs you sent attached and looks like (:°) @_@
It’s because TextEdit misinterprets the text in your .prproj

I am not a text expert but as I understand it, youd TextEdit is not in Unicode (UTF-8) mode. You can go in “Format” and change the settings of the document to Unicode (UTF-8) or you can set the default opening encoding to UTF-8 or UTF-16 in TextEdit Preferences/Open and Save.

Of course, try all that on a copy of your original .prproj so that in case you accidently mess your .prproj in TextEdit you still have a clean copy.

Let me know if it works !

[Matthieu Mailhé]

Fortunately, there is a simple workaround : set yourself the right settings / codecs parameters in the textfile of your .prproj

This is how to do it :

1- Find an old of your .prproj that you know is functionnal on your system (a “valid” project)
2- Open it in a text editor (text edit in my case, on mac)
3- In the text editor, locate this words (with the command “cmd-F” on a mac):

MZ.Sequence.PreviewRenderingPresetCodec>

The few lines below this part are the references for codec and preview settings. In my case, they look like this:

EncoderPresets/SequencePreview/795454d9-d3c2-369d-9874-923ab14b7018/P2 1080i-1080p 50Hz DVCPROHD.epr

4- copy those few lines
5- Locate the same spot in the .prproj that you can’t open.
6- Replace the few lines by the ones from your “valid” project
7- Save in the text editor and close it.
8- Open your now “valid”.prproj

This is only a workaround and doesn’t adress the real issue. But still, when you have to meet tight deadlines, it can save the day.