[Sam Harrison]

I tried this today and am still experiencing the crashing. However, I actually worked in this same project, which included that same AIC codec footage, starting in March, until I completed a video for a May deadline, and was never experiencing this issue, even when using that footage. So I know that the videos with that codec were not causing issues for a 2 month period. I should have included all of this earlier. It’s all very long-winded, though, and I’m sorry for throwing details all over the place.

Since then, I was given even more footage from the same “client” to create additional videos, which I imported into the same project. I originally already had dozens of hours of footage, which took up most of an entire 1TB external drive. I put all of the new footage on an additional hard drive, editing with both. Since I had no close deadlines, I came back to the project every now and again to sort through and mark/pull selects from the new footage, still experiencing no noticeable problems that I can remember. Again, all footage is AVCHD except for those files with the AIC codec.

Roughly two weeks ago, I started going back to the sequence for the original video I completed in May to make some changes to it. I think that’s when I started having problems with the program crashing, but it’s hard to pinpoint because the time increments in which it happens keep varying.

I save new copies of my project files every day that I work on them. (“YYMMDD_Project Name.prproj”) So I went back to older versions of this same project from *before* I imported the new footage into it, which I saved back in May, and Premiere still crashes when they are opened. However, I have not *yet* experienced this problem while working in a different project.

Basically, the time that it takes to crash just gets shorter and shorter throughout the day. I will open this project for the first time each day that I try working on it, will edit or look for the problem for around half an hour, and then Premiere will crash, almost always when I am in the timeline- whether playing a sequence, moving a clip, or just clicking the panel. Then, I do the same thing maybe twice more, and those times Premiere crashes five to ten minutes within being in the program. Then, it gets to a point when it just crashes when opening. But then, the next day I will open the project, and it will work for thirty minutes again, crash, and then the same pattern of the increments getting shorter and shorter throughout the day will repeat.

[Sam Harrison]

You’re going to have to forgive me for not noticing or knowing really obvious things that I should have when I started the project- I’m really a novice and still learning.

The woman who filmed everything used a Sony NXCAM. There was a lot of footage, some of which she put on a hard drive and then gave to me, and the rest of which she gave to me on SD cards that I think came directly from the camera, which I transferred onto another hard drive. I have been using both hard drives while editing.

I just looked through each of those drives in the Finder. The footage that came directly from the camera SD cards is in AVCHD.

But the footage that had already been put on a hard drive for me used the Apple Intermediate Codec, and from the file structures, they look like they were used in iMovie before they were given to me.

[Sam Harrison]

Don’t have any installed to begin with. Any other ideas?