On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:23:13 GMT, rabid wrote:

>what is the deal with these and premiere - it is brutal....
>
>i will render an entire project then watch it and pick at it - mostly
>audio...if i dont touch video, and do some audio below it, it often
>causes errors in the video playback like a small segment repeating
>itself....this happens all the time.....and why cant you delete
>preview files that are contained within the project blue bar and not
>the entire thing?....this would at least eleviate the
>problem....instead, i have to re render my 12 min project now because
>i added one audio clip near the beginning and it screwed up the video
>sequence above it...rendering this section again does nothing.....
>
>lets go premiere, get your ass in gear here......
>
>and while iam ranting, why doesnt premiere give you the last 4
>projects you worked on to select from in the file menu like every
>other modern program ???? !!

Are you using version 5.1c for the PC...?
I consider "preview" files to be just that, and
render previews only of what I want to see rendered.
When the project is finished (mine go to 1.5 hours
in one piece...), I dump all the preview files and
render the whole thing fresh (it takes maybe
45-minutes, not a big deal, I think...), then export
the movie to tape. Premiere does have bugs, but you
can work around them all, once they are known...
As for the other, for safety I save second, or
even third copies of the project occasionally. This
is useful for safety, and for trying a risky lenghty
new editing idea without losing track of a former
editing direction...
And, yes, as an expensive product put out by a major
producer, one can rightly complain bitterly about
its state of "finish" - Premiere 5.1 is a good
editing program, but Adobe messed up badly on it,
and has not yet fully corrected problems with it.
That doesn't mean I will not use it, though, since
it fits the way I work, and I like what I can do
with it...