eunice
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Post by eunice on Nov 11, 2011 18:31:27 GMT -5
Mine for today:
1. Export draft to accidentally to wrong folder. Find it, open it, watch it, decide on changes to make.
2. Dive back into Premiere to make said changes, export again to proper draft folder this time.
3. Watch new draft. Notice none of the changes are present. Make confused face.
4. Go back and export again.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you are nearly in tears thinking you've managed to break Premiere in new and interesting ways.
6. Realize that you've been in the wrong folder, opening the draft from step 1 over and over all along.
7. Feel like a total idiot.
8. Come to share with your vidding friends, and ask that they share their moments of total brain freeze so you don't feel quite so idiotic.
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Post by obsessive24 on Nov 11, 2011 19:09:57 GMT -5
ROTFL! Love this. I think coming back to the thread is gonna make me feel sooo much better when I'm suffering my next blonde moment. I'm not vidding currently so (luckily) have nothing to share right now, but given my propensity for repeatedly tripping over absolutely nothing, I'm sure that'll soon change.
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Post by xandra on Nov 11, 2011 19:24:53 GMT -5
On my last video I had a similar experience. I kept exporting my vid over and over again because the watermark wasn't showing up. I too thought I broken premiere. I restarted the computer tried again until I finally realize I had un-toggled the layer.
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Post by jarrow on Nov 12, 2011 12:05:58 GMT -5
Oh god, I have made so many mistakes regarding releases. It was in my early days, but still. I posted a vid without watching my export back first, and it was TWO DAYS before I realized the audio was out of sync by 2 seconds (!!!). That was embarrassing. There was also the time I had to release a vid THREE DIFFERENT TIMES because I couldn't get the aspect ratio right. And I didn't know it was even wrong. And I don't mean the kind of thing where only I notice it and not the rest of the world. I mean, like, scary smushing bad where even a toddler would look and say, "why is his face like that?" *sigh*
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Post by obsessive24 on Nov 12, 2011 12:09:37 GMT -5
I posted a vid without watching my export back first, and it was TWO DAYS before I realized the audio was out of sync by 2 seconds (!!!). LOL! Poor thing.  |
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jarrow
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Post by jarrow on Nov 12, 2011 12:13:07 GMT -5
Also, in terms of going crazy while in Premiere, I frequently run into the situation where I am seeing something in my preview that is NOT on my timeline because I DON'T SEE IT ANYWHERE, and I can't figure out WHERE it is coming from and I GO INSANE. Then after 10 minutes I realize that I've expanded one of my video tracks, pushing a higher track out of view on my timeline (without scrolling). So, it's there, I just couldn't see it. *facepalm* Way to go, me. (And this happens ALL THE TIME.)
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eunice
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Post by eunice on Nov 12, 2011 12:17:57 GMT -5
*cracks up*
You know, I think perhaps Premiere needs a function where when you go to export it's all 'You are about to export! Have you checked the following:' and then a personalized list of dumbass things you are likely to have done.
It could go right next to the 'finish this vid' button which takes all the changes and ideas in your head and magically fixes them on the timeline.
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jarrow
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Post by jarrow on Nov 12, 2011 12:27:23 GMT -5
Ooh, eunice, yes! It would be like in Turbo Tax where before you submit your return, it goes through and shows you all the mistakes you made. BRILLIANT.
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Post by sweetestdrain on Nov 12, 2011 20:41:23 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this is a stupid moment, as it is ALL TRUE, but it makes for a good story -- a good terrifying moment! When sisabet and I were working on our collab vid On the Prowl at about four in the morning, we became ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED that the vid was haunted... there was this weird layered vocal that suddenly appeared in the later half of the vid which sounded like someone was growling words under the music, and it hadn't appeared in any of the earlier exported drafts. And I think that was right around the part of the vid where Jared Leto's bloody face gaped out of the screen, so. Extra creepy.
It might not have been as bad if a) we'd ever managed to figure out what caused it (aside from the obvious ghosts), or b) we hadn't had so much Mountain Dew -- neither of us could summon the courage to leave the well-lit living room and WE REALLY HAD TO PEE.
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Post by thatyourefuse on Nov 12, 2011 20:46:37 GMT -5
... yesterday, I did something to my timeline, and I have no idea what, that caused about half of my video track to be about .5 seconds slow starting I have no idea where. I am now in the process of reconstructing the entire thing from my clip spreadsheet.
No, really, guess which program I'm using...
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Post by rhoboat on Nov 13, 2011 3:49:30 GMT -5
Also, in terms of going crazy while in Premiere, I frequently run into the situation where I am seeing something in my preview that is NOT on my timeline because I DON'T SEE IT ANYWHERE, and I can't figure out WHERE it is coming from and I GO INSANE. Then after 10 minutes I realize that I've expanded one of my video tracks, pushing a higher track out of view on my timeline (without scrolling). So, it's there, I just couldn't see it. *facepalm* Way to go, me. (And this happens ALL THE TIME.) Ha! I've done something similar in Vegas several times. Although one time it actually worked out in my favor because the mistake looked like a nifty effect. ;D |
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Post by legoline on Nov 13, 2011 12:16:10 GMT -5
Oh God.
So I've spent the past week getting hold of the GoT mkv files and wrecking my brain over a way to convert them into avis and whatnot, only to find out now the website where I found the mkvs also offers the HD MPEG-2 versions. I think I'm gonna cry.
*fail*
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Post by valika on Nov 14, 2011 7:37:50 GMT -5
Something like the inverse of this happens to me all the time. When I can't see in my preview something what should be there because I've put it there and I can see it on my timeline, where did it go?  And it takes me minutes to realize that I MUTED that track for some reason previously. When this happens, I always start to doubt about my mind's condition. |
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Post by sweetestdrain on Nov 14, 2011 9:48:37 GMT -5
Oh, and do we dare bring up the Stupid Vidding Moment that I'm sure has happened to many of us?
There have been so many times when I have scanned through my clips (and even the original source), again and again, looking for that great clip I remember that would work perfectly in a particular spot on the timeline... only to realize, after desperately hunting for far too long, that the clip doesn't actually exist and that my brain invented it as some vidding fever dream.
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Post by obsessive24 on Nov 14, 2011 9:59:55 GMT -5
Oh, and do we dare bring up the Stupid Vidding Moment that I'm sure has happened to many of us? There have been so many times when I have scanned through my clips (and even the original source), again and again, looking for that great clip I remember that would work perfectly in a particular spot on the timeline... only to realize, after desperately hunting for far too long, that the clip doesn't actually exist and that my brain invented it as some vidding fever dream. *raises hand* |
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