Hello everybody,
I am Andreas from www.premiere-project-recovery.com.
All offered "solutions" in this thread are no real solutions.
I will give you an overview about the problems and possible solutions.
THE PROBLEMS
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There are two problems:
- Problem 1: root cause
- Problem 2: effect
First problem: The root cause
As is known, there is a problem with "," (comma) and "." (dot) in saved premiere project files.
That's not just a problem of Adobe. If you google a little bit, you will see, that also Corel, Firefox, Openoffice and others have this problem since the last windows updates. The problem seems to appear from time to time (2011, 2013, now).
And unlike it is claimed here, the problem is not gone with Adobe Premiere CC 2014!
Second problem: The effect
Results of the "comma/dot"-error are damaged project files. If you open a project and save it since the error is in your windows system, you will create damaged files.
Also you can see effects of the error while working, for example:
- Premiere: strange jumps while scaling footage around 0.5 (50 %)
- Premiere: audio channel problems
- Premiere: displayed ".," in shown values
- Premiere/CorelDraw: saved files became corrupted
- CorelDraw: shows wrong typo sizes
- Corel PhotoPaint: Software crashes when effects like "Gaussian Blur" tried be used
- ... and many more
Some systems shows all effects, some only a few or less.
"SOLUTIONS"
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Solution for the root cause:
There is currently no bugfix available! You can only use workarounds for the "comma/dot"-error. For example:
- Use "." as decimal separator in windows control panel
- Turn your windows into english
- Roll-back windows to a state without "comma/dot"-problem
Some systems need only one of them, others need more.
Solution for the effect:
Damages project files will stay damaged. No bugfix or workaround will correct them. Therefore you have several options:
- Option 1: Create a new project and repeat you work.
- Option 2: Try fixing damaged project files by yourself (instructions are posted in this and other threads). But remember: If you fix your project e.g. with Pauls method and remove (defect) keyframes, your project can be loaded, but is incomplete. You have to manually check what is missing and redo your work.
- Option 3: Let us recover your project files (www.premiere-project-recovery.com).
At the end you have to decide which option is the best for you.
Option 1 and 2 may cost you a lot of time. And if time is money, then it will cost you a lot of money too.
Option 3 costs money but saves (a lot of) time. You can immediately continue your work.
Why do we ask for money?
Fixing projects is not our hobby. And we are not the Salvation Army. We work fast and professional to help professional cutters to resume their work as fast as possible.
We developed a software to fix such problems and we prove each project manually for correctness. There are several manual steps in the whole recovery process.
The recovered project you get is complete as it was when it got corrupted, so the professional don't have to waste time and can finish their projects in time as their clients expect.
Read this thread. You will see: People we helped are highly satisfied.
Who are we?
We are a team of video artists and software developer from germany, spending lots of time to find helping workarounds and acquired the necessary knowledge to recover projects lossless!
SUMMARY
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1. Currently no solution is available. Only workarounds!
2. Professionals can get fast support from us - and yes, it will cost a little money.
Good luck,
Andreas