[Nathan King miller]

Thanks Troy and everyone for your encouragement and suggestions. Ultimately, I did find a solution that worked, though it really shouldn’t be necessary to do it this way.

I deleted ALL of my renders and opened the final edit, which somehow corrected the black frames issue. Whenever I tried to rerender a section, however, the black frames would reappear in various parts of the film. So I deleted all renders once again, held my breath, and exported a full AVI without rendering.

Somehow, this worked. I then placed the AVI in another Premiere Pro timeline, added my letterbox, and rendered again. I hate to render twice, but the compression wasn’t really noticeable and it allowed me to escape with my film intact.

Phew.

It’s good to hear Premiere is aware of this issue as it greatly persuaded me to look at other editing software if these bugs persist. I love Adobe’s entire suite of software, which is why I use it. But editing is difficult enough without the software constantly working against you in unpredictable ways. I’d prefer they work out these bugs before adding any new bells and whistles to the next version.

Thank you again, and hope to see some of you at the festivals.

Best,

Nathan

[Nathan King miller]

Thank you Justin and Chris for your suggestions. Yes, I have deleted all previously rendered files, which seemed to work for a few minutes, then after rendering a few scenes the problem popped up again.

I also uninstalled and reinstalled both premiere and the Sapphire plugins, which again seemed to work temporarily.

Justin, initially I applied the letterbox PSD file above my entire edit. This is what caused the glitch. At this point, I’m just trying to recover my edit without the letterbox so I can take the clean file and apply letterboxing to it.

I just spoke with Adobe Tech support and they feel the project file itself was corrupted, so have suggested nesting that file in a new Premiere sequence to see if it will uncorrupt itself. If not, I have to erase all of my coloring effects (2 hours of individual cuts) and redo them. Ugh.

If anyone has any better ideas, they are most welcome. Thank you for your suggestions and help. I’ll leave the final solution on this thread when it is complete.

[Nathan King miller]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the 30i timeline recommendation. I’ll give it a shot. The rendering issue isn’t a problem. One final question. Am I safe using the 24p Advanced settings in a 30i timeline?

I know Premiere has no option for turning off the 24p reading on footage shot with 24p Normal on the AGDVX100, which greatly frustrates me. I had assumed, perhaps wrongly, that editing in a 30i timeline with 24p footage simply wouldn’t work.

I’ll give it a go with some tests.

Thanks again.

Nathan

[Nathan King miller]

With a bit more experimenting I found the problem. Render Settings/Effects has another effect called “Object Glow” which needed to be added to the render. I added it from the drop-down list, checked the box next to it, and my glow came out fine.

Thought I’d post to let anyone else know who has a similar problem.