[Patrick Doan]

thank you, i found it right where you said it was.

yes, i normally do the null-parenting thing too, but i wanted to try this out.

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[Patrick Doan]

thanks for the response, it really helped. yes, i’m going to get into doing those tutorials when i find a copy.

i was wondering how long renders should take? because i’m trying to render a preview, and, according to the previewing bar, it’s taking 19minutes to process, for a short 1 min video. the clips are in quicktime. i’m using an old g4 500mhz, 514mb ram.

thanks

[Patrick Doan]

i moved the HDD back to my friend’s computer, and the files work fine. not a glitch in sight.

i still haven’t figured out why the premiere project files don’t load properly on my computer. i made sure to install the exact same version (1.5) on my new computer.

thanks for all the responses, it was enlightening.

[Patrick Doan]

prior to the removal of the disk, the projects never crashed on me, and i always made incremental backups. i tried opening the backups, but i still receive the same error message.

i think i might have to redo the project. 🙁

[Patrick Doan]

i would be hard pressed to believe that of all the files on my HD, that these premiere project files would be corrupt, among other, perhaps more, susceptible files which would be prone to truncation/corruption (no pun, heh).

i’m just speculating, but i think the problem has do with the way premiere handles file associations/linkage in a project’s library.

i’m going to reinstall the drive on my friend’s pc, and see what happens.

[Patrick Doan]

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the HD that i moved from my friend’s computer was a slave disk. there were no project files on the master disk (SATA). the disk is a SATA Western Digital 160G (#WD1600JS).

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in my new computer, this disk is also placed as a slave (master disk is a WD2500JS SATA).

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i have installed the same adobe premiere pro build from the other computer to this computer that i am using now. the icons are coming up associated with premiere, no problem there.

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i get the warning (as mentioned in my first post) when i attempt to open the file in premiere. i also tried the import option, and get the same message.

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i should mention that the drive letter assigned to the slave drive is different then it was when it was installed on my friend’s computer.

i hope that was clear! i appreciate the help.