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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 10:18 amI’m having difficulty with a 19 minute project of footage I recently shot of my two grandsons water skiing. The footage was the first taken on my new Canon HV 40. I imported the footage into my computer using HDVSplit. My goal was to make the video silly with lots of special effects to amuse the two kids. As I was editing it the day before yesterday, I kept rendering the various effects that I added and the whole project played smoothly.
However, when I opened the project yesterday morning to continue editing, a number of odd things happened. First, as I played through the project, even though the timeline showed icons indicating that all the clips and titles in the movie were present, some didn't appear in the monitor. Instead, the "offline" message played in the monitor until the CTI got to the next functioning clip. When I back-clicked any of these missing sections and clicked “reveal in media,” the program took me to the correct source in the media panel. In point of fact, none of the media was missing; it’s all available in the media panel. In each case, when I dragged any purportedly “missing” clip back into the project, it played immediately.
Second, there are additional clips that played with no indication of “media offline,” but in these cases the keyframed special effects didn’t play. For example, there’s one section where I have two garbage matte layers above the main track. In each, I use the eight point garbage matte to create a passage in which, as my younger grandson skis, a second image of him water skiing first appears on his right and then fades. Closely thereafter, another image of him appears on his left and then disappears. There are very many keyframes involved. Neither keyframed image appeared in the project when I first opened it. I was able to recover both these effects by going into Properties for each, and clicking the Eight-point garbage matte off, then on. This toggling made each effect work again. When I got it working, though, the red line reappeared above each edited clip indicating that it once more needs to be rendered.
I should add that, when I pulled up this project, Premiere didn’t generate the “where is xxxx” screen to relocate unlinked clips. It simply opened with all these misfires in place unbeknownst to the program. In an earlier posting in the forums, Steve recommended saving a skitterish project with a new name. I tried that, but it didn’t cure any of the problems this project is having.
I opened the project again this morning. I had corrected all of the difficulties listed above yesterday. Every last problem is back. As a matter of curiosity, I opened two earlier 15 minute projects with many special effects, etc. shot on my Sony HDR HC3. These are working perfectly.
RBM
Intel R Core TM 2 CPU, 6700 @ 2.66 GHz. 2.77 GHz, 3.0 GB of RAM. Windows XP.
However, when I opened the project yesterday morning to continue editing, a number of odd things happened. First, as I played through the project, even though the timeline showed icons indicating that all the clips and titles in the movie were present, some didn't appear in the monitor. Instead, the "offline" message played in the monitor until the CTI got to the next functioning clip. When I back-clicked any of these missing sections and clicked “reveal in media,” the program took me to the correct source in the media panel. In point of fact, none of the media was missing; it’s all available in the media panel. In each case, when I dragged any purportedly “missing” clip back into the project, it played immediately.
Second, there are additional clips that played with no indication of “media offline,” but in these cases the keyframed special effects didn’t play. For example, there’s one section where I have two garbage matte layers above the main track. In each, I use the eight point garbage matte to create a passage in which, as my younger grandson skis, a second image of him water skiing first appears on his right and then fades. Closely thereafter, another image of him appears on his left and then disappears. There are very many keyframes involved. Neither keyframed image appeared in the project when I first opened it. I was able to recover both these effects by going into Properties for each, and clicking the Eight-point garbage matte off, then on. This toggling made each effect work again. When I got it working, though, the red line reappeared above each edited clip indicating that it once more needs to be rendered.
I should add that, when I pulled up this project, Premiere didn’t generate the “where is xxxx” screen to relocate unlinked clips. It simply opened with all these misfires in place unbeknownst to the program. In an earlier posting in the forums, Steve recommended saving a skitterish project with a new name. I tried that, but it didn’t cure any of the problems this project is having.
I opened the project again this morning. I had corrected all of the difficulties listed above yesterday. Every last problem is back. As a matter of curiosity, I opened two earlier 15 minute projects with many special effects, etc. shot on my Sony HDR HC3. These are working perfectly.
RBM
Intel R Core TM 2 CPU, 6700 @ 2.66 GHz. 2.77 GHz, 3.0 GB of RAM. Windows XP.
