I've edited with premiere the past two years, and each time, by the time me and my editor have finished, we get so many ****ing problems.

Things get out of sync, sometimes it will just start fastfowarding, sound drops out a lot, and little bits of sound from other files or songs in one part weasle their way in to other parts.

And the one thing that ALWAYS happens and so far is completely unfixable is the "hiccup" in a song (almost every one of them has at least one) where the song skips really quick playing the same note or drum beat twice. These things bug me, and have probably been brought up before, but I havent been on here for very long. Do all editing programs do this, or just Adobe Premiere? And how can you fix it?

You have to render the film before you try to play through it. If you're problem isn't because you don't do that, then I don't know what's wrong.

this has happened to me on every large premiere project ive ever done. the only things that ever worked for me were :
if i shut down the program and restart it, the problem dissapears.

Mine likes to speed up mp3 files, so they run at double speed, even though theyre not set to. changing those to WAV fixes that problem.

The audio getting out of sync could be do to you accidently mvoing a chunk of video or inserting a sound and displacing the other audio protions (Everytime without fail, i will use the double arrow to select all tracks, but not grab the audio on one, then move everything right. The audio is still "locked" to the video, but now its out of sync and a little red arrow appears in front.)

Just another thing to check for - if you are using an external drive, don't disconnect/reconnect while premiere is open at all. Granted, it shouldnt be a problem, but for some reason i have seen similar things occur when this happens...even if the project file was closed. Premiere freaks out, particularly with audio files playing the wrong thing etc. You are using Pro correct? Are you on an external drive or internal?

I'll second the advice about rendering and MP3s...both of those solved a lot of problems for me, as well.

In fact, I started rendering the timeline whenever I did anything that warranted it, such as adding a transition. You can always back track anyway, you don't have to wait for a long render when you've completed the project, and you can preview your edits right away.

Let me guess; you're using a PC.

And that helps him with his problem how?

i used to use premiere, then i used AVID, i hated both, and now i use Vegas. follow suit. you'll be happy.

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Originally posted by poptart:
And that helps him with his problem how?

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Well, if it's true, then that's the source of the problem.

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And that helps him with his problem how?

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Thats a JW response if i ever heard one

it sounds like your computer is just running out of RAM to do everything you're trying to do in real-time, so it skips and messes up.

rendering helps, cause then the RAM just reads the render file instead of trying to render it as the play head passes over it.

more RAM would help too.

and a good thing to do is to always render the sound, no matter what, even if it's just dialogue. video editors aren't so great with the sound, and if you're using .mp3 you should try to find another format, since some editors have problems with .mp3, and the quality isn't as goo as the other formats either.

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Well, if it's true, then that's the source of the problem.

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Uh-huh...I was expecting this to turn into another thread about how you're better/smarter/sexier/feet don't stink if you use a Mac.

It sounds like your still useing Premiere 6.x, not th enew Premiere Pro. We've got a pretty cool P 6.x tips page on our website

http://www.videoguys.com/Premiere6tips.html

Also here is a link to our top 10 NLE tech tips
http://www.videoguys.com/Top10tech.htm

Gary
Videoguys.com