Premiere 6.5 (partial black export)

[rawk1]

Hi all,

I have spent a couple of days reading through this extremely useful site, but I still haven't found anything that describes my problem (although I have picked up some nice tips & tricks )

The Background:
Have captured many DV clips from my camcorder (PAL DV AVIs), and stuck em all together with a few simple transitions, and an occasional bit of text.
Total length of movie is around 45 mins.

WinXP Pro, Premiere 6.5, AMD Athalon 1200, 512MB RAM, 2x80GB Raid 0, lots of disk space spare.

The Problem:
When I Export to movie (still PAL DV AVI) all appears to be well except...

When I play back the generated movie (which is just under 10GB in size) the last approx 4 minutes are black screen and NO sound.

The point at which this occurs is midway through the fourth clip from the end of my sequence.

If I select the problem area and just export from just before this to the end of the movie then it works fine (so there's nothing wrong with that clip??)

I'm not doing any transitions/effects at the time that this happens.

And finally, although the whole clip appears to generate okay, as soon as I do anything in Premiere after this export Premiere crashes!

This is driving me nuts! I previously did the whole thing with MGI VideoWave, which worked fine - but a previous movie I made with it was jerky on going back to DV tape. That's why I switched to Premiere, thinking it would do a better job.

Any help would be greatly appreciated so I can finally get this movie back onto tape and clear out my HDD ready for the next batch!

[Sugar]

A few suggestions:

- render your film before exporting,
- check in the settings that when you export, you export the full movie and not part of it,
- also check the bar above the timeline to make sure that it runs until the end of your edited film.

It is strange that if you export only the end of the movie, it would work

[rawk1]

A few suggestions:

- render your film before exporting,

Do you mean real time preview the whole thing? or something else?

- check in the settings that when you export, you export the full movie and not part of it,
- also check the bar above the timeline to make sure that it runs until the end of your edited film.

Definately doing the whole thing, the end result is the correct length, but just blank near the end. (and the very last thing is a text thing and that doesn't come out either!)

It is strange that if you export only the end of the movie, it would work

Yeah, I'm assuming that its something stupid I'm doing, but I just can't think of anything else to try

[Sugar]

What I mean about rendering, is render the project before viewing it.

Check the Keyframe and rendering options in the Project Settings tab. I would suggest you select Preview from disk. Which means that before you can watch your video, the project in rendered on your HD. You should see directly in Premiere any visible issue with your video.

[rawk1]

It worked!

Created the whole thing, its ready to go back onto DV tape now - I guess something was corrupted??

Eternally grateful Sugar - I can now move on to my next set of clips!