Posted by EJ on 01/22/08 10:26

On Jan 22, 11:03 am, "Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xp7rt.net> wrote:
> "EJ" wrote...

> >> After rescuing my computer (and large Premier 6.5 project)
> >> from a crash, I find that the project is intact -ALMOST.
> >> Everything is there in the time-line except that 3 of the four
> >> original large avi files, and their edited pieces on the time-line
> >> have turned intoblackholes.
>
> > SOLUTION:
> > During computer recovery, Windows had renamed three of
> > the drive letters. The video wanted to be on the drive (letter)
> > on which it had been captured. When I Re-renamed the drives,
> > the video all appeared again as normal.
>
> Alternate solution: When you open the project and Premiere
> asks you where are the files it can't find, you just re-direct it
> to the new locations. No fooling around with drive letters
> needed. IME, Premiere has no preset expectations about
> where it "wants" files to be. You, the end-user, can specify
> them wherever you fancy.

No, sorry, that wasn't quite the problem and isn't quite the solution.
After recovering from the crash, I did of course tell Premier where
the files were on the Windows-renamed discs. The entire 2-hour project
then reappeared complete with all clips, cuts, transitions etc in
place on the time-line, _except_ that 3 quarters of the video was
just pieces of black. It was not until I re-renamed the drives that
the video reappeared. As I needed a couple of attempts to get the
original drive letters correct, I was able to see video reappear and
some also disappear (ie become black) when I initially got it wrong.
I dont take credit for this; I got the clue from a 2003 post in
another forum which said words to the effect that "clips want to be on
the drive on which they were originally captured". His solution was to
edit information in the first few lines of the clip's raw data to
comply with the drive that the clip now found itself in, but not being
brave enough for that I decided to try altering the drive letters
instead which, happily, worked.

Eric from Oz

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