[Steve Keller]

Hey David, that preferences option seems to be the problem. There’s a box to check if you want to save the cache files with the source files in media prefs. I must have checked this a few days ago without thinking. What a mistake!

I unchecked the box, let the application do it’s generating of peak files one more time, and now things are back to normal.

Advice to anyone reading: LEAVE THIS BOX UNCHECKED!!!!!!

[Steve Keller]

I tested this with Adobe Tech support, and this was not the issue. Good idea though.

[Steve Keller]

I’ve tried several file types, all HD, AVCHD, h.264 (canon 5D), ProResLT and ProRes. All have been problematic. I also tried importing an m4f file (exported in PP using DVD-BluRay settings), and this did not cause the peak file problem. However, I’ve been working on this project – my first in PP – for several weeks and only in the last few days have I encountered the problem. Something obviously changed or got corrupted.

[Steve Keller]

Every file. Even weirder (at least I’ve never seen this until now), it’s writing the conformed files to the directories where the source files exist.

I may try re-installing CS5.5 just to see what happens.

[Steve Keller]

Good suggestion, didn’t work though.

AARRGGHH.

[Steve Keller]

MORE ISSUES!!!

I have three project files all created the same way. Mulitcamera sequence, nested to second sequence where a multicamera edit is performed. Then this sequence nested in a third sequence where the final edit is done. Turning off the audio of the first sequence did the trick at first for all three projects.

BUT NOW, two of the projects are incapacitated. The dreaded “Rendering Required Files” message is popping up every time I make a change. I have even tried letting the thing “Render”, saving the file, closing the file, then opening the file immediately, hit the space bar. AND Guess what pops up… of course – “Rendering Required Files”. It’s like it can’t find the file it just rendered, or isn’t looking.

This is a nightmare. I’ve been editing digitally for 14 years – as long as desktop editing has been around. A friend who happens to be a product manager at Adobe convinced me to try PP for this project, and knowing that Apple was giving up on pro users I decided to take the risk.

BIG F-ING MISTAKE. This software is garbage for serious work. May be OK for a wedding video or music video, but clearly not for something this complex.

Anybody have any ideas as to what’s going on??????

BTW, Adobe tech support’s answer was to update the graphics card driver. Oh yeah, that should do the trick.

[Steve Keller]

OK, I found (and modified) a workaround an earlier post on this topic. For some reason, even though there is only one track of audio in the original sequence (I deleted all the unnecessary tracks), this is the source of the problem. For some reason, the PP thinks it needs to do all sorts of processing on this track. I copied the track, turned it off, pasted the track in the nested sequence and everything’s hunky-dory.

Seems like a bug to me.

[Steve Keller]

A workaround seems to be to rename the files in the STREAM subfolder, but these have to be imported as Media Browser will not recognize them. Timecode will be lost too.

[Steve Keller]

I found a workaround to this. You can rename the files in the STREAM subfolder, but CS5 will not recognize them in the Medaia Browser. You can still import the files in the file menu, but timecode will be lost.