From: "Steve Oakley" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Subject: Re: [AE] Premiere/AE/Audition and the missing Dolby audio decoder
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:46:19 -0600
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I have a project that I=E2=80=99ve tried to purify. reimported into new =
project, even exported to XML and imported that into new project, still =
highly unstable and crashy. thankfully delivered and done for over a =
year now, so I don=E2=80=99t have to deal with it.=20

media is fine. thats generally easy to find because you crash playing or =
doing things with that one clip, or clips from a particular folder.=20

nVidia driver is more interesting. I do installs often enough through =
regular updates though that its probably low on my list but a good / =
fast / easy one to do.

PP prefs. ugh. perhaps cloud prefs are the source of re-occuring =
problems. maybe I=E2=80=99ll nuke everything prefs and see if that =
matters.

App reinstall I=E2=80=99ve done, never made a difference for me.

if anything, I=E2=80=99ve almost come to suspect nVidia related things =
and that AMD is more stable. my laptop seems to be more stable than my =
tower with Titan X.

what I will say is I=E2=80=99ve spent days trying some other things like =
trashing all the house keeping files / caches, new projects, copy and =
paste into  new TL=E2=80=99s, pretty much to no avail. I think old =
projects have some weird bits to them that newer vers don=E2=80=99t like =
and don=E2=80=99t have code to detect the problems and fix. what we need =
is a project purifier that filters a project for questionable things and =
fixes them. I realize that might mean your project gets changed, but =
I=E2=80=99d rather have warning of items that changed and need to be =
fixed than I can=E2=80=99t get work done. well I have, export to XML and =
go to FCP X or resolve to finish it.

S


> On Jan 19, 2018, at 2:56 PM, Jim Curtis <AE-List@media-motion.tv> =
wrote:
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> FWIW, I=E2=80=99ve tracked down ALL my issues with PP to usually one =
of these things:
>=20
> - corrupt media.  Remove or transcode to a different codec.
> - Nvidia driver corruption. Reinstall. (One time I had to wait a few =
days for a driver update to fix a known issue.)
> - Pr preferences corruption.  Reset
> - app corruption.  Reinstall
> - an effect or transition has become corrupted.  Remove and replace.
> - project corruption.  Import the =E2=80=9Cbad=E2=80=9D Project into a =
New Project.
> - Sequence corruption.  Copy from the =E2=80=9Cbad" and paste into a =
new sequence.
>=20
> If necessary, follow all steps.
>=20
> So far, Zeus willing, I=E2=80=99ve been able to finish every job =
I=E2=80=99ve started in every version of Premiere since CS 5.5.  Some =
versions have been more buggy than others. =20
>=20
> CC18 has been outstanding for me on my Mac.  I have a client with =
Windows systems - I don=E2=80=99t know what OS version, but there have =
been problems there too, with cc18.  Mostly crashing.
>=20
> Worst perp, in my experience is corrupted prefs and media.
>=20
>=20
>> On Jan 19, 2018, at 1:51 PM, Steve Oakley <AE-List@media-motion.tv> =
wrote:
>>=20
>> My experience on PP 2018 is that it took me no less than 5 minutes to =
crash it. Opening up previous projects for updates isn=E2=80=99t pretty =
as those are super easy to crash with. doing simple stuff like adding an =
transition crashes.I=E2=80=99ve  heard similar tales from PC users. Some =
people seem to have stable installs, some don=E2=80=99t. There doesn=E2=80=
=99t seem to be commonality to it. Even new clean projects can be =
crashers, so I gave up and moved on. sad but when you just need to get =
things done rather then send crash logs off=E2=80=A6 you do what you =
need to do.=20
>=20
>=20
> .
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