While I was editing everything looked fine, but now on final reopening to cjeck before I do a "Produce" there are these four infernal "black" clips, with nothing to say what the source files are. although I remember they are clips where I have changed the speed. I've tried enabling / disabling shadow files but neither helps, I've got something like 4GB of memory, and it's a new well-specified Windows 7 Laptop, that copes with other programs at lighning speed.
The video is only six minutes long, but there's lots of short edits, some with slo-mo and reverse play, but surely not that difficult that PD8 can't cope with.
I can now understand why these forums are now full of problems encountered with PD8. For goodness sakes I even had my very first PC crash in 30 years of owning PCs.
Anyone any ideas if I can rescue it ???? . . as I've spent 10 hours on it so far.
EDIT . . . I've just looked again and identified a couple of the clips which are blacked-out, and by holding the mouse-cursor over the thumbnails in the imported files section it says "shadow file generating". I wonder how long I have to wait, or whether it just won't do it
2nd EDIT . . . when I disable shadow files then open the project again, the whole video opens, but still the four black clips showing . . . Adobe Premiere never behaved like this on my old Win 98 PC
3rd EDIT . . . When I'm using PD8 I don't use anything else on my PC, so there are NO other programs running. I also save regularly, and shut the PC down every couple of houirs, then do a restart, as I've read somewhere of memory leaks / loss, or something to that effect. Also the memory is configured by Windows, and I'm wondering if I should set my own memory specifications instead.
Oh, and I'm typing this on my old reliable Win 98 system, while my new super-dooper Laptop struggles to cope with PD8
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