Grrrrr! Aaaaargh!

[lierdumoa]

So, like, I thought the hardest thing about making fancy fast cut effects heavy vids was, like, learning how to do them.

No, no. I was wrong. For apparently the hardest thing is dealing with Adobe Premiere 7.0's constant seizures.

OMGWTFBBQ?!?

I'm playing my vid in the preview window and all of a sudden random black spaces appear where before there were clips. I close the project and re-open and yay! The black spaces have disappeared! Only I find out that they have in fact not disappeared, but moved to another part of the vid.

So I export my vid to make sure there are no shady black spaces in the export. Thankfully there aren't. I'm good as long as it's exporting properly, right?

Except wait. Now that I think about it, having to export my vid so I can see what it looks like completely defeats the purpose of having a preview window!!!

::throws tantrum::

This is on top of the fact that for reasons I cannot fathom, I can't render clips without putting at least two keyframes on them.

First I couldn't render them. Now I can't watch them without exporting.

And I was being nice this time! I'm only on 4 tracks! I'm mostly playing with internal motion so I have, like two effects in the whole vid not including opacity handles. WHY THE HATE?!?

Also, I'm only, like half done. Probably because I didn't get to start till yesterday. That and troubleshooting. Goddamn motherfucking troubleshooting. Poo. Poo I say.

Comments

[luminosity]

See? It's reports like these that stop me from upgrading to Premiere Pro. Good God Almighty. I'd have to kill something.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking it's more an avisynth problem having to do with the particular way the DVD was encoded than a Premiere problem. I don't think permetaform had this problem. Actually, I don't know. I think three vids ago she stopped bothering with rendering because she has only 256 MB RAM (I have 512) and using avisynth slowed Premiere down too much for the preview window to give smooth playback. Also, I'm vidding in 24fps. All my previous vids were in 29.976fps. I figured I'd try 24fps because that's the approximate framerate of my source and it makes rendering faster. I think Premiere might be somewhat less stable at this framerate than it is at 29.976fps.

I had a similar thing going on when I vidded The Nightmare Before Christmas, the first time I used avisynth. That vid was too short and simple, I think, for me to run into the black spaces problem, which only cropped up about halfway through yesterday.

Nothing like this happened when I was doing my Firefly vid, so I know this problem isn't ubiquitous for all DVD source vidded via avisynth. My biggest problem for the Simon!vid was in fact learning how to do the effects. I had to do virtually no tech related troubleshooting. Just one more reason to love Joss Whedon, I guess.

I'm thinking I'll ask absolut3destiny if this ever happened to him on Premiere 6.5, since I don't actually know any other vidders who use avisynth except permetaform.

I feel like I'm setting precedents for Premiere Pro fuck-ups. I should make a list for the wiki.

[permetaform]

yo, I finished my effects-less version, should I send it along or wait?

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Wait. I'm not done yet.