[Peter Jordan]

Thanks Jeff. So close to loving Premiere … but despite all the bells and whistles, doesn’t seem to have some of the basics that dramatically improve efficiency.

Thanks for your help!

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[Peter Jordan]

Many thanks to Deditster!

It appears to have been a corrupted sequence after all. I copied the footage from the original sequence and pasted it into a new sequence and everything is behaving normally again.

Thanks to all for your help.

Cheers,
Peter

[Peter Jordan]

Thanks Marcel, Deleting transitions, moving, and then re-adding them is what I’ve done in the past. But it’s not realistic for complex projects. And this problem has begun relatively early in the editing process this time, so there’s still a lot left to do.

Any idea what could be causing the problem?

Many thanks,
Peter

[Peter Jordan]

Walter, Thanks for taking a look…

My workflow is the following:

1. Capture entire 60min DV tapes in OfflineRT
2. Edit scenes in separate OfflineRT sequences
3. Nest scene sequences inside a master sequence
4. Using Media Manager, recapture, deleting unused media
5. Delete any clip files from Browser, leaving only sequences
6. Fine cut scenes (this is generally where the demons come)
7. Print to video

I often have dozens of scene sequences in the browser. After my initial pass through the footage, I delete the clip references in the Browser because I can more easily locate footage in the scene sequences. Some people have suggested this may be the problem, but only because it’s unusual.

This is the third project that has misbehaved in the same ghostly way — first two times on FCP3/TiBookG4 and this time on FCP4.5/DualG4. Only common hardware elements are my firewire drives.

But I wonder if some plug-ins might be causing havoc with the builtin FCP transitions? (Recently added Eureka and TooMuchTooSoon to the new system not long before things went funny).

What do you think?

Many thanks,
Peter