Premiere CS3 keyframes stop working totally at random

[Mr Pilkington]

So I'm ready to murder someone....

This is the 2nd time on a totally different machine no less, with the same issue.
Premiere CS3 for what ever reason right towards the end of a long project corrupts my project file in the most annoying ways:
1) The least worry some, The project bar shrinks to just 30 seconds long and centers itself in the project.
2) The nuisance, all of my render files disappear after I shut down the program, so when i reboot i have to re-render if i am working on a huge effect.
3) The biggest pain in my ass! All keyframes are intact and work fine if the file is imported to After effects, but for the life of me I cannot get this singular file to open correctly in Premiere. The Keyframes show in the timeline but do not preview, even if rendered or exported. And because it's a one-off issue (only a single project file is effected) the rest of my files work fine. I can copy this file in explorer and rename it all day and all night but the damn thing still screws up even with the new files. The only way to get Premiere to re-recognize the keyframing is to touch each single edit. Needless to say this is tedious task in even a small project. So I want blood!!


Because I'm a half-assed retard on the software front I'm totally out of ideas.
Is there a fix, or am I %*&ked?

[kenzuka]

1) Never encountered that, so, yeah.. do not have any idea....
2) THAT, I did encountered it. I did not find any solution with that and I did check time to time the forum of Adobe, and no solution was given.
3) Again, I encountered that... Well, If your problem is that some media are 'offline' even if they exist in your project window and Premiere did found them when you open your project, my solution is to:

- reduce the zoom on your timeline so you can see all of your amv
- Select all the scenes of your amv
- Move all your selected scenes of a few frames. Now, none of your scenes are offline.
- Press CTRL+Z and all of your scenes are in there right place and none of them are offline.

[leahzero]

2) The nuisance, all of my render files disappear after I shut down the program, so when i reboot i have to re-render if i am working on a huge effect.

Pre-rendered clips are saved to your HD. Unless you purge them or change something that would affect that clip in some way, they will be there the next time you open a project. I'm not sure what you're doing exactly but read this:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Premier ... -7cd4.html

3) The biggest pain in my ass! All keyframes are intact and work fine if the file is imported to After effects, but for the life of me I cannot get this singular file to open correctly in Premiere. The Keyframes show in the timeline but do not preview, even if rendered or exported. And because it's a one-off issue (only a single project file is effected) the rest of my files work fine. I can copy this file in explorer and rename it all day and all night but the damn thing still screws up even with the new files. The only way to get Premiere to re-recognize the keyframing is to touch each single edit. Needless to say this is tedious task in even a small project. So I want blood!!

Read this:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEf ... -7fbb.html

Also, depending on what you're doing in AE, you may want to use Dynamic Link and just insert a few AE comps into your Premiere project (i.e. if it's just for a few titles and FX shots). If you need to process the whole video in AE, then finish all your editing first in Premiere. There's no need to swap entire project files back and forth.

[leahzero]

Sorry, first link is wrong.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Premier ... -7cd0.html

[Mr Pilkington]

As helpful as that is you missed my point entirely.
I have no problems editing in AE nor back and forth with any other file. This file is just hated by premiere. But I took some advice from above and tweaked the premiere timeline a bit. By simply moving every clip up one track I get my keyframes back until premere shuts down again. This will at least get me through the end of these 2 videos.
But the render bit is unique in that the render files are purged from the HDD totally upon closing premiere. EG: If I render and look in the Premiere CS3 render files folder while premiere is running its all there and happy. Upon shut down the entire folder disappears. It's not a crisis because most of the files wont need rendering, but still a pain in the ass.