[Wendall Woodbury]

Thanks Gene. Yes, I am also interested in your method of retrieving a project. I do not want this problem ever again!

I am also interested in your method of editing. I sometimes run into problems using my External drives. Basically, I capture my video to an Internal drive, then transfer the file to my External drives & edit on them. Is that an exceptable method? To edit a large project on an Internal drive would require larger drives that I presently own. I am however considering purchasing a WD500GB Internal drive.

Thanks.

Wendall

Filmmaker 20

[Wendall Woodbury]

Thank you for the information Aanarav. I will file your tip for future reference, if I should have the problem again.

I actually used the following method to retrieve the project, which was given to me by a friend, before I received your message. I removed all USB devices, except for the hard drive. I then re-booted, right clicked on My Computer, clicked Manage, Disk Management, then right clicked on the USB drive and changed the drive letter back to G: I then re-booted and changed any duplicate letters on my small USB flydrives. I don’t know if this is the correct thing to do, but so far, so good.

Thanks again for your prompt response to my problem. It feels good to be working on the project again.

Best regards,
Wendall

Filmmaker 20

[Wendall Woodbury]

Regarding the problem of playing back the COW video tutorials…I think I’ve narrowed the problem down to the tutorial FLV files. None of my players want to accept them (Irfanview, VLC, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Flash 8 player etc.) Actually, I should say they do open and play, but ONLY in a veru intermittent, jerky fashion (both video & audio.) However, as I noted earlier the tutorial WILL play back okay ONLY in my VLC player. Can someone tell me WHICH player I actually need to play back the COW video tutorials properly (both Video & Audio?)

And, I’ve still had no luck transferring the tutorials to CD-R,for posterity. even using the Temporary Internet Files as Jerry kindly suggested. I keep running into an error message saying the player cannot open the FLV files. Very frustrating and I’m sure the answer is a simple one.

Again, thanks for any help.
Wendall

[Wendall Woodbury]

For the past couple of days I have been trying the methods outlined. I tried opening the video tutorial (it ran intermittently) then located the ‘temporary’ files under internet tools and settings, but for whatever reason I cannot open the temporary file properly. I saved them to a misc. folder and also to the CD burner, but to no avail. A couple of times I was able to get audio by using my VLC media player. The sound was fine, but no picture.

I even downloaded Adobe Flash 9 (a couple of times) but that does not seem to work. The download sites says I’ve downloaded the program, but I can’t find it anywhere on my computer. Can’t figure that one out.

Thanks for any further tips. I really would like to have these infomrative tutorials.

Wendall

[Wendall Woodbury]

Thanks for the answer. I’m not sure what you mean by locating the tutorial in a ‘temporary’ file. Where might I find that? And can I save them to video CD from there?

I seem to have the most problems with the AE tutorials. Sometimes I can’t get them started and other times I can, but then they only play back intermittently. In other words the picture sticks and the voice is broken up. Perhaps I need more processor speed on my internet computer (mine is only 650MHz/100FSB CPU.)

Thanks.

Wendall

[Wendall Woodbury]

For some time now I have been checking the Cow Forums (AE & Premiere Pro) and have found some great information which has been invaluable. But, some reason I have a problem trying to view the ‘video tutorials’. I can’t seem to bring them up. And, I have the latest I-Tunes.

Also, I would like to copy the ‘tutorials’ on AE & PPRO to a CD-R, so I can review them on my editing system (which is not connected to the net.) I know this is probably downloading Basic 101 …but, what must I do? I have no problems downloading tutorials from Digital Juice, so I’m obviously doing something wrong here.

Thanks for any info.

Wendall

Filmmaker 20

[Wendall Woodbury]

Thanks for the tip. I’ll check out Diskeeper You’re right about the Windows defragger. It took forever!

[Wendall Woodbury]

Mike,

Thanks for the tip. I think I will indeed update the drivers. Meantime, the problem has been solved. After much trial & tribulation ‘de-fragging’ (learned a lot about that process) the drive is clean and now the video plays back just fine. So, obviously it’s been a long time since I last de-fragged. I learned a time-consuming lesson…the hard way, DE-FRAG OFTEN! I’m now back on track and I really appreciate your imput.

Wendall

[Wendall Woodbury]

Mike,

I forgot to answer your question regading the the Status of the drive. I checked in My Computer etc. and it said it was “healthy”.

Thanks.
Wendall

[Wendall Woodbury]

Thanks for responding Mike. I was formerly Filmmaker 42, but couldn’t figure out how to keep that moniker and change my e-mail in my account…so, I’m now Filmmaker 20!

Anyway, by blue I meant the ‘contiguous’ files being grouped together. And, no I am not running any virus scanning program. The computer is not connected to the internet, it’s only used to edit video with.

Regarding ‘de-fragging’, when I ‘analyze’ the drive it says de-frag, but when I actually de-frag it’s been going up to perhaps 8% or so, then ending. The window whould say the drive was de-fragged. However, the AFTER window (with the red, white & blue bars in it) would look almost like the BEFORE de-fragg window, so I don’t think it has really been de-fragging properly. I shut the computer down after you wrote and re-started it. I’m de-fragging once more. THIS time it has actually gone up to 29%, so I have my fingers crossed. It appears that more of the blue bars are getting larger, so that’s a good sign. It takes a while since the dirve is 300 GB.

May I ask, IF the drive was NOT defragged properly before, could that cause the ‘stutter’?

Thanks.

Wendall