2 Replies Latest reply: May 16, 2014 8:35 AM by robirdman1 RSS

    clip hijack problem

    robirdman1 Community Member

      with some videos, I am having a problem where one clip in the sequences is playing that of others.  I posted this question before but didn't get a solution.  I was going to add some more discoveries, but now when I go to the forum, I don't see a place to search my posts, so am starting over.  What I discovered is that when I connect the hard drive with the problem sequences to my laptop instead of my PC, the same problem happens.  so then I though that this is worse, a hard drive problem rather than Premiere Pro.  But then on the PC I opened such a collection of clips in Nikon's ViewNX2 movie maker and this didn't happen.  then I merged the clips into one movie there, opened in PP and was able to cut out the unwanted parts and finish the movie as I intended.

      I mentioned the problem to a friend and he doesn't have the program but wondered if it had to do something with a cache.  And then I saw that at the top of these discussions it said clearing the cach may solve some quirky problems. So I started to follow the directions.  I opened the preferences and saw media cache files as being at C:users/admin/AppData...... etc.  I didn't need to go any further because when I go to   ... Admin/  there is no subfolder AppData, though it indicated that's where the rest of the subfolders are.

       

      Subsequently found it was hidden.  Knew I'd seen it before.

        • 1. Re: clip hijack problem
          Mark Mapes Employee Hosts

          If I understand correctly, you already determined that the AppData folder is hidden, and I presume you set Windows' Folder Options to Show Hidden Files/Folders/Drives. If that's the case, did you clear the cache files, and did it help? Or was it too late to even test that because you had worked around the problem by "merg[ing] the clips into one movie there, open[ing] in PP, ... cut[ting] out the unwanted parts and finish[ing] the movie as I intended."

           

          To put it another way, do you still have a problem that you need help resolving?

          • 2. Re: clip hijack problem
            robirdman1 Community Member

            I had posted the question and then found the folder so edited the post but didn't delete it, before further testing.  Now I deleted the cache folders and tried again to put together a video of a
            Great Gray Owl.  When I went to trim the first clip and pulled back the end, another image appeared, so the problem was not solved.  It seems that I will have to first combine all the clips - in this case 13 and 35 minutes in Nikon's movie maker before I can properly edit in PP.  Very inefficient method. What a dumb, but very expensive program.