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Mar. 6th, 2006 10:20 pmWhy I hate Adobe Premiere
I am almost done. ALMOST done with my "demo reel" video thingy. BUT, always, always something goes wrong with this godforsaken program, of course... This one is the stupidest ever. I can open my audio track individually from my media bin within the program and play it. Audio sounds fine. Great. I can open the audio track into the preview pane and play it there. Still plays fine. I can scrub the preview slider through my edit sequence and see my video and hear my audio. Everything is great. Unless, that is, I want to actually PLAY my sequence. That's right. I can't play what I'm working on. I was planning on being done in about an hour and IT IS BROKEN.
I've turned it on for the first time tonight. Everything was fine yesterday. I've checked and double checked all of the audio settings within the program as well as in Windows. Nothing. The crazy thing is, the audio WILL PLAY unless I am watching my complete edit sequence. So I know the program is capable of producint audio.
UUUURRRRRRGGGGGGHGHGHHGGHHGHGGHHGGHH
This is some powerfull anger-enducing frustration. I want to destroy. I'm so pissed off at this right now. I JUST WANT TO BE DONE. This, on top of all of the other frustrations I've had this last weekend. Every single thing I wanted to find and use is gone, inaccessible, or damaged. No old footage, no equipment, nothing. Just my computer and a camera. Everything made from scratch this weekend. But I did it! I got enought stuff recorded (good looking stuff, too...) to make a complete music video for one of my tracks off of Authentic Songs of the Old West (10,000 Gallon Hat, my favorite track).
I've removed the track from the timeline and re-inserted it. I've restarted the computer and the program (like that would help) but to no avail. Nothing will fix this simple but VERY MAJOR problem.
Oh, and I can't export to QuickTime for some reason. QuickTime is broken. My half hour of rendering has given me a 1.54 kilobyte file. Ummmm... no. That's wrong. This is after three different attempts to render Quicktime files tonight. Fuck Quicktime and Quicktime Pro. This is ridiculous. I've made an AVI from Premiere, which works and I can play, but if I open it in Quicktime Player and export a MOV, I get more unusable crap.
I'm going to walk around the block and clear my head. When I get back, all of these problams had better magically fix themselves or my computer might be taking a fucking trip out my 2nd story window.
THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN
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pant pant... breathe deeply... OK OK...
Somehow this is all related to my DV cam being hooked in through firewire. The driver was acting up and I just had to turn the camera on and off about 20 or 30 times for the computer to figure out when it was on and off, and in VCR or camera mode.
All sorted out.
My computer gets to live.... this time.
I am almost done. ALMOST done with my "demo reel" video thingy. BUT, always, always something goes wrong with this godforsaken program, of course... This one is the stupidest ever. I can open my audio track individually from my media bin within the program and play it. Audio sounds fine. Great. I can open the audio track into the preview pane and play it there. Still plays fine. I can scrub the preview slider through my edit sequence and see my video and hear my audio. Everything is great. Unless, that is, I want to actually PLAY my sequence. That's right. I can't play what I'm working on. I was planning on being done in about an hour and IT IS BROKEN.
I've turned it on for the first time tonight. Everything was fine yesterday. I've checked and double checked all of the audio settings within the program as well as in Windows. Nothing. The crazy thing is, the audio WILL PLAY unless I am watching my complete edit sequence. So I know the program is capable of producint audio.
UUUURRRRRRGGGGGGHGHGHHGGHHGHGGHHGGHH
This is some powerfull anger-enducing frustration. I want to destroy. I'm so pissed off at this right now. I JUST WANT TO BE DONE. This, on top of all of the other frustrations I've had this last weekend. Every single thing I wanted to find and use is gone, inaccessible, or damaged. No old footage, no equipment, nothing. Just my computer and a camera. Everything made from scratch this weekend. But I did it! I got enought stuff recorded (good looking stuff, too...) to make a complete music video for one of my tracks off of Authentic Songs of the Old West (10,000 Gallon Hat, my favorite track).
I've removed the track from the timeline and re-inserted it. I've restarted the computer and the program (like that would help) but to no avail. Nothing will fix this simple but VERY MAJOR problem.
Oh, and I can't export to QuickTime for some reason. QuickTime is broken. My half hour of rendering has given me a 1.54 kilobyte file. Ummmm... no. That's wrong. This is after three different attempts to render Quicktime files tonight. Fuck Quicktime and Quicktime Pro. This is ridiculous. I've made an AVI from Premiere, which works and I can play, but if I open it in Quicktime Player and export a MOV, I get more unusable crap.
I'm going to walk around the block and clear my head. When I get back, all of these problams had better magically fix themselves or my computer might be taking a fucking trip out my 2nd story window.
THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
pant pant... breathe deeply... OK OK...
Somehow this is all related to my DV cam being hooked in through firewire. The driver was acting up and I just had to turn the camera on and off about 20 or 30 times for the computer to figure out when it was on and off, and in VCR or camera mode.
All sorted out.
My computer gets to live.... this time.
