Losing render files
Just gonna start posting about this as often as I can until it's fixed. There's many many complaints about this in the forums. If you need more details on what the problem is, just read any of them.
A professional editing program should NOT be losing render files. Please fix it.
Andrew
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phillip york
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This work around does work.
https://editspecialists.com/pr/index.php/avoid-losing-renders/
What a joke to have to use it. -
Bue Monrad
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I loose hours everyday of this.
I actually just started using Premiere ‘Pro’, but I’m considering to change to Final Cut PRO. This issue is just way too much waste of time.I actually try not to close Premiere (it’s hard because of all it’s chrashing), to avoid the re-linking procedure all over again’ 😂
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Banks Meador
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I too am loosing render files on my 4 edit systems each time we open projects. We are loosing time and time is money.
Seriously considering the move back to FCP because of this issue.
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Anonymous
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For me, the problem is even more unnerving:
If I simply drag a wav file around, it kills my rendered preview.
It would be great if this could be fixed. -
Antonio
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Same problem here. I use a project with many compositions like this one:
https://videohive.net/item/medical-promo/23311501
Try to play it.
This of course doesn't work as AE still needs to render it.
So you press Space and wait 1 hour for AE to render it.
After 1 hour, AE has finished, and you're happy as you can preview the thing smoothly.Now restart AE.
The preview is gone, and you have to repeat the same process, meaning that you have to wait another hour.I guess that this is the problem that everybody else is having, too.
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Anonymous
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yeah it doesn't matter how many times I re-render my timeline. I have to do it all over again as soon as the project is closed and reopened. Very frustrating.
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Anonymous
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Yeah, I'm doing a lot of green screen and effect work in AE
Seems like when I jump from one project to another and back again, I've got to rerender the whole timeline.
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Ben Langlinais commented
Same here. I'm close to finished a 2.5 year project. 45 minutes long. Effects heavy. I've rendered and re-rendered previews to get rid of the red, but it keeps coming back.
Most recently I was trying to "edit original" to go from a linked clip to the AE Comp for a tweak. AE locked up. All of my linked media went "offline." So I did was one usually does in this case and restarted AE then reloaded my PP project and boom. Everything I rendered overnight to get the red into green was red again. It takes 17 hours to re-render all of that just so I can preview it online.
I guess it's time to break this project into scenes because ain't nobody got time fo all dat re-rendering.
Have I mentioned when I try to export the project it errors out every time? So once I finally DO get it finished I doubt I'll be able to export the entire project without breaking it up into 10-15 minute clips to be assembled in yet another project.
reminds me of the days of mastering segments for a show onto Digi Beta tapes with segments assembled on the final master.
Not how 2019 editing should have to happen.
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Anonymous
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Ok, I am also losing render files - I have never had this problem before - but right now - I close my project - which i render whole night and open it again and can render again....I truly dont have time for this...Please, could you tell me what should i do to fix this?
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g
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Here's another update on this bullhockey. I was editing a movie with h264 movs from the camera. The sequence was the default mpeg preset for preview files. I added some text overlay titles, rendered, exported, made an empty sequence to save on to close PP to avoid losig render files (the workaround trick that used to work). Later I start PP and load up the project. I click over to the sequence from before and all of the sections with text overlays had missing render files. Since I'm getting to the end of the edit, I thought I'd switch the sequence to prores422. It all went red (which is normal). I waited an hour for the render to go green. Then I clicked on the text in one of the overlays to change it and the render file for that overlay clip was instantly lost. Apple-Z did not bring it back. It was red line. I tried it again on another text overlay and the same thing happened. I made NO changes and the renders were lost. Just from giving focus to the text box. Tomorrow is the last day of my year of subscription. Why should I bother continuing to pay for this garbage? You are forcing me to pay for Final Cut Pro X, Adobe.
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Chris
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Adobe you're killing me!
I've been jacked over and over and over and over again with losing my preview files. A Project is open, all lines are rendered green up top... I make 1 minor edit downstream, and a ****-load of random previews are all gone all throughout the time line?? This happens while a project is open / active. As well as when re-opening a project the files are randomly gone, as others have described here.
Does this thread actually lead anywhere, or just a place to hope to find help from fellow hackers?
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Rog
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Rather than save project change to save as with new title then throw away original file!
Re open in with new title this worked for me. -
Anonymous
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Final Cut Pro does not have this problem
Premiere has a lot of legacy issues -
Ryan Fritzsche
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encountering this problem too. Just took time to render an entire sequence, 1080p 23.98 fps ProRes HQ Max Render Quality and Max Bit Depth both checked. Running v13.1.2 (Build 9) on Mac 6,1 8-core D700 GPUs, OS 10.13.6. certain clips kept un-rendering for no reason while the project was open. Closed, quit premiere and re-opened immediately. virtually ALL render files for the entire sequence gone. huh???
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Jeff Schaap
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It's 2019 and the issue is still here... I also have experienced this for years (been a user since Pr 2.0) and as everyone has said there's no one scenario that makes it happen all the time. I can render a project, close it, open it the next day and poof, rendered portions are gone. Aggravating and wastes a lot of time.
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paul wedel
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So terribly bored of this. Seems to have loaded all the renders except the two that were crashing my system. Those I managed to get rendered after multiple reboots (and rebuilds of my Documents/Adobe/PremierePro folder in OSX, CC2019, the least stable of all the PP releases yet!)
So why are those renders lost?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I'm actually asking, why?
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Bob
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Andrew...you seem to well state the issue. In my instance, however, I am a Windows user, actually with Win 7, and it may be necessary to indicate that the problem is the same here. The discussion seems to identify the problem as LOOSING the render files. Is this, in fact, what is happening ? Are we maybe identifying the wrong mechanism by description, or do we perhaps have a MEMORY issue ? I only say that because we ask Premiere to SAVE what has been rendered, and after closure and re-launch, we find the saving process did not occur.....or at least in function sufficiently to recall the rendered files to the subject timeline. Some suggestions have mentioned re-assigning Memory attributes to MEMORY, in lieu of PERFORMANCE. I have tried that, but to no avail, but maybe that is insufficient because I only have 8G of RAM with which to deal. Don't know. But the point is well taken and Adobe definitely needs to offer a FIX. This is happening for me on a simple 10-min. timeline opener for a much longer 2-hr program yet to be edited, and I can't imagine having to re-render every time night-time shut down occurs.and the program is restarted just to not have to re-render again. Maybe just don't shut down ? CRAZY ! Oh yes.... most of my hand-held shots are being improved by the use of Warp Stabilizer, so that may be figuring largely in the problem. .
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Anonymous
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Why are we STILL LOSING RENDER FILES!!???! The drive never disconnected. All I did was save the project and close premiere for the night. Next morning, open the project and all renders are gone! DAMMIT. 30 minute show with 4K source files! 3 more hours!! ARGGH.. FIX THIS ADOBE!
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Chris
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As my project got bigger, I started to have this problem. This (so far) has been working for me - https://editspecialists.com/pr/index.php/avoid-losing-renders/
Not ideal, and I would guess it wouldn't make any difference if Premiere crashes...but saves me from having to re-render each time I reopen my project.
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Christina
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Experiencing the same issue. I lose render files and peak files when I exit or quit the program having to re-render/re-generate every time. I connect to a central server in which all my media cache and scratch disks are set to. I am on the latest update.
