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Premiere Video Files Scrambled

MikeW
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Aug 17, 2005, 5:54 PM

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I have an interesting problem with Premiere 6.0.
I am running the Matrox RT 2500 as my back up system while my "A" system is is the shop.

I capture and edit on one 200 gig drive. There are three or more project on that drive. Lately my video files seem to get scrambled. What I mean is that I'll be playing a clip from project 1 and suddenly a fragment of a clip from a completely different project( Let's say project 4) will show up embedded in the clip from project 1. It's almost like it's playing two different projects at the same time.

It may ruin a portion of the clip in project 1 or it could render the entire clip unplayable. This is very unpredictable. Sometime's if I capture the clip again the rest of the project will be okay other times the whole project is ruined.

Could this be a problem with the harddrive itself?

djtoltz
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Aug 17, 2005, 7:44 PM

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Re: [MikeW] Premiere Video Files Scrambled [In reply to]	Can't Post

You didn't say if you were on Mac or Windows, but this sounds like a cross-linking problem on the hard drive. You may want to backup the hard-drive, then run a diagnostic (check disk or disk utility) against it, delete cross linked files (they will probably be damaged), copy the remaining files to another drive, format the original drive and move the files back.

If you've got a really good disk repair program, you may be able to continue using the drive after making repairs without reformatting, but reformatting will guarantee that no old problems will sneak back in, unless the hardware itself is failing.

When files get cross linked, two files think they occupy the same space. The last file to get written overwrites some of the data from the other file, and both files end up corrupted.
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Douglas Toltzman
Hubert, NC