Premiere Keyframe h.142 Error

Question

Hi everybody,
I'm using Adobe Premiere CS4 Version 4. 2. 1. 0. At the moment I'm working at a very important film-project. After saving and reopening the *.prproj file the debugmessage "\keyframe h.142" occured. Clicking "Continue" leads to a crash of Premiere.  I tried opening the autosavefiles with the same effect. After a long search with google I found out, that a missinterpretation of dots and commas caused this problem. I read about many different workarounds to fix the corumpted data with perl-scripts to change the wrong commas into dots but nothing worked. I tried a solution on http://www.vibait.com/contact.php but I think the problem is, that I'm using Premiere Pro instead of Elements.
I really don't know what to do. The Adobe Support told me, that there is no Support for CS4 anymore. Thanks Adobe!
Did anybody have the same problem, or even better knows how to solve it?

Answer 1

Hey guys,
after wasting a lot more time I finally got it. Here is what I did. I found this discussion:
Hi Rainer,
that's it - everything is working... What have I done?
I used both (!!) scripts from cloud565 with the following command lines via cmd:
C:\Perl64\bin>perl -p -e "s/([-0-9]+?),([0-9]{12,24})/$1.$2/g" D:\We.prel >D:\We1.prel
C:\Perl64\bin>perl -p -e "s/([-0-9]+?)\.([0-9]{12,24});([0-9]{15})/$1.$2,$3/g" D:\We1.prel >D:\We2.prel
Note: C:\Perl64 is the install path of pearl, We.prel is the damaged existing initial project. We1 and We2 are going to be created by the script.
Then I opend We2.prel in notepad++ and followed the instructions of Rainer, but just 2 of them:
search for ,< and replace by .<
search for 0,5 and replaxe by 0.5
And that was all I had to to - after this PE10 was able to open the projects, I didn't have to replace other lines / expressions like Rainer.
So glad that the projects are working again, thanks all of you for helping us and leading us to the solution!
Cheers!
Michael
I did everything up there. Aditionally I search once again in the document after ",," and replaced it with ".,". I think you have to handle the renaming of "0,5" to "0.5" with care because there could be numbers like "...94835,0,0,...". This of course doesn't mean
"...94835.0,0,...".
After doing all that stuff I restarted my system. And in the end that was the final issue, at least in my case.
Hope that will help others who were victims of Adobes horrible Support.
Michael