Adobe Premiere

[Floppyman]

Hi all,

Was working on a video editing project in Premiere today when all of a sudden I got one of those wondeful M$ BSOD's. Great I thought, and rebooted. I had autosave on Premiere to save every minute so I was thinking I wouldn't lose much. But I was wrong. Upon relaunching Premiere I now can't open my project file. It says the file is write protected,locked, or corrupted. I'm thinking the BSOD probably corrupted it. Is there any way to get my project file back? There was a lot of time involved in this and if I can get it back somehow that would be great. Otherwise if not then I guess it's time to start over-- glad I only lost the project file. Thanks in advance.

[SonicVanguard]

What exactly was the BSOD - do you remember? But if you are using W2K, most likely that project file will be difficult to retreive - just because W2K is so protective of corrupted files. With WinXP, the file may be savable, but I'm not sure.

Have you scanned the Adobe help files to see if there is any answer there? Because for as long as I've been using Premiere (started with v.4.2), I've personally never seen anything like this. But I have read about a few situations like you've described. Unforutuantly, they were in print trade mags, and I doubt I still have them.

[Floppyman]

The BSOD had the file msdv.sys and it was a Driver Irq not less or equal error. BTW, I'm using Win2k SP3. Any ideas? I'll try googling it too and see if I cant' come up with anything. Thanks again.

[Floppyman]

Woohoo!

Got it all back. I went to Adobe forums and read a thread where someone mentioned that Premiere saves previous versions of projects. Sure enough, a quick search for *.ppj files revealed 5 previous project files that were saved about a minute apart (I have auto-save set to 1 minute). Doubleclicked on the latest one and everything loaded right up. If you are using win2k (I'm assuming this is the same for XP), Premiere keeps a Project Archive folder that you can access through My Documents. Thanks again for the help.

[Floppyman]

Hey Sonic,

Mind if I ask you a couple other questions on Premiere?

1. When I have video playing I would like to have text either displayed or rolling across the bottom of the screen over the top of the video. How would I do that?

2. Does Premiere have a way for me to change some color video footage to black and white? Maybe by a filter?

Thanks again.

[SonicVanguard]

Originally posted by Floppyman Hey Sonic, Mind if I ask you a couple other questions on Premiere? 1. When I have video playing I would like to have text either displayed or rolling across the bottom of the screen over the top of the video. How would I do that? 2. Does Premiere have a way for me to change some color video footage to black and white? Maybe by a filter? Thanks again.

I'm using Premiere 6.5 as my reference.

1) File...New....Title. That will bring you to the Adobe Title Designer. For a built-in, it's quite powerful. It's not TitleDeko, but it's very good. To have your title over video, you'll have to play around with transparency settings and your title will have to be on video2 (compositing track).

2) In your effects/trasitions bin click the Video tab. You'll see a set of effects entitled Image Control. You'll find B&W under there. You could also select the set of effects called Adjust. In there you'll find Levels. When you drag levels over to your clip, you'll see all it's various parameters in your effects control window. At the very bottom, there is a check box for monochrome.

The only reason I bring up using levels to control your color is you have more control. Using the B&W effect you have no other controls. By adusting the video levels, you can highlight certain greys (using mono) or various other color channel combinations.

HTH.