Premiere Pro CS5 acting weird lately

Hi
I have been using the program for months without problems, but the last few projects have been plagued with them.
I am capturing mini DV tapes via firewire through a deck - some tapes will capture Ok but when I put at the others on the timeline there is no audio - definitely audio on the original tape, and audio plays fine via windows media player. I have let the clip encode fully after capture. I end up having to capture the same tape again, and then it's fine.
Another strange phenomenon that has just stated to occur regularly - I am getting red frames in my footage which I understand Premiere puts in when there is a dropped frame in order to maintain sync. However every time this occurs, my audio is out of sync by 7 frames. Its driving me mad. I have not changed any settings, I have changed my firewire card and cable - it's just one of those random things which is occuring regularly.
Dell Studio XPS 8100/Windows 7/Intel Core i7 CPU/ 860 @2.80 Ghz/6 GB Ram/Pyro professional 1394 controller
Please could someone suggest possible solutions!

Thank you Harm,
I think you are right about cleaning the disks, they have become cluttered and I am going to sort that out today. I have 1.5TB C Drive and 63GB D Drive - maybe I should resize the D Drive and use that for capturing the video?
I never reuse tapes, and do clean the tape heads but maybe not often enough - will clean more frequently.
I did not have the legacy driver installed, have done this now - thanks
I don't know about the chip on the Pyro card, how can I find this out?
I will take your advice and clean my tape heads and hard drive and let you know if that improves the situation.
Many thanks!

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Try these steps. Something is definately wrong with your loading times.
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2. Clean Media caches (Preferences Menu/Media)
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You dont mention where and on what system your media files are stored. For best performance a raid array is desirable.
4. Make new sequence and copy timeline from old to new.Do this if the above stuff doesn't help.
5. Upgrade to 5.5 where a lot of issues has been resolved.

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Thanks for your insight I will let you know what I find..
Cheers
Steve
(PS If I don’t get this done before Chrimble, let me offer you Season’s Greetings )

Premiere Pro CS5 crashing when exporting (only certain file types)

Hi
I have found that when I try and export media in Premiere Pro CS5, it often crashes during the export. It says
It's only certain file types. For instance, Vimeo HD seems okay but Vimeo SD always crashes mid-export. MPEG is okay too, but MPEG2-DVD always crashes.
Sometimes it says this: "Error Compiling Movie - Unknown Error" but doesn't throw me out of Premiere altogether.
Other times it crashes altogether and Windows gives me this error message: "Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 258.96 stopped responding and has successfully recovered". Premiere Pro then stops responding so I have to re-open it and start exporting again.
I have checked there are no gaps in my timeline and I have rendered the whole work area. Besides, I doubt it's anything that I'm doing wrong with the project itself because it's exporting fine in some formats.
I am also experiencing random crashes when editing too. Not that often, but occasionally it throws me out - and twice it has made the whole screen go crazy, with weird dotting across the screen (it's scary, it looks like the monitor itself has broken!).
Any help would be appreciated!
Nick
PS I have a pretty decent new PC - Dell Studio XPS, 8GB, 2x1TB drives, etc. Premiere itself is working great, except for these crashes.

Some drivers do not work well in some systems... so go to nVidia and try a different (usually newer) driver for your card
These notes are for Encore, but they MAY also work in Premiere
Long File Names or odd characters Cause Crashing http://forums.adobe.com/thread/588273
And #4 Here http://forums.adobe.com/thread/666558?tstart=0
And This Message Thread http://forums.adobe.com/thread/665641?tstart=0

SlowMotion in Premiere Pro CS5.5 mit 720/60p Aufnahmen

Hallo!
Ich habe eine Panasonic AG-AC160 Kamera und habe damit Aufnahmen im 720/60p Modus gemacht. nun habe ich 59.94 frames pro sekunde aufgezeichnet (wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe) und würde gerne in premiere Pro CS5.5 die Aufnahmen so darstellen, dass sich das Geschehen langsamer darstellt.
Ich möchte nicht einfach die Geschwindigkeit des Clips auf 75% setzen, das Ruckeln sieht man einfach zu deutlich.
ich habe versucht, das Material in eine "normale" 25p-Sequenz einzufügen, aber dann scheint Premiere das material anzupassen und macht Material mit 29.97 fps daraus.
Ich hab mit verschiedenen "frame-rates" noch nicht viel Erfahrung, deswegen die Frage...
Danke für jede Hilfe!
Toni

Ok, it's weird to answer my own post, yet I learned how to do it and in case someone else is just starting up, it might be helpful:
import the 60p footage into premiere, rightclick onto it in your footage-list and got to modify > interpret footage. there you can enter your desired framerate (in my case 25fps) and click "ok". then right click on the footage again and choose "new sequence from clip" and now you have a 25fps-sequence with true slow motion footage.
thanks to Adobe ambassador Jon Barrie!

Audio Issues Premiere Pro CS5.5

Hi All!
New here...
I'm using Premiere Pro CS5.5 on a Mac Pro, running Lion. Had no issues with it at all until now.
Issue:
For some reason, when I'm looking at footage in the source window the audio doesn't play. However if I leave it for a few minutes it 'compiles', the best way I can think of describing it as is buffering. but if I skip forward a substantial amount of time, say 3-5minutes the audio fails. I also have a slight problem with the video footage stuttering when viewing in the source window.
Looking back at previous edits that I've done they all work fine, its only effecting new edits.
I've trawled the net looking for answers, followed all the hints I've found from clearing the Media Cache database to reinstalling the entire collection to changing the audio hardware output
However nothing works.
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Stu

They're the same as I"ve always used.
However, the problem seems to have sorted itself now? All I can think it is, is that Premiere is having to maybe convert the audio codecs?
It was just a bit weird that it suddenly started happening.
But as per your request, I think this is the right info:
Type: QuickTime Movie
File Size: 3.1 GB
Image Size: 720 x 576
Frame Rate: 25.00
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Total Duration: 00:14:24:05
Average Data Rate: 3.6 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.4587
Thanks for the help

Error Importing Premiere Elements project into Premiere Pro CS5

Hi,
I am working on a multi-part video project that I started in Premiere Elements 8. I put in hours upon hours of editing on the first part and I found that the more I edited, the more often the program would crash (infuriating!). So I started using Premiere Pro CS5 to produce the second part, resolving to come back to the first part later. Well, I've come back around to needing this first part done, and it is just undoable in Elements (crashes every 20 seconds!). I'd like to import that project into CS5 if possible. The help documentation says this should be perfectly possible... but I'm having no luck.
When I attempt to open my Premiere Elements project in Premiere Pro, it tells me the project must be converted from Elements .prel to Pro .prproj, and I click through the prompts as normal. But then as soon as it starts trying to open the project, I get this:
"The Project could not be loaded. It may be damaged or contain outdated elements."
I downloaded the Premiere Elements 9 trial to see if it would be less crashy (and it is), but I'd really prefer to have all my video in one program, and CS5 does the best job (and has most of my hours invested). Elements 9 opens the "damaged" project just fine and I can edit and export normally, so why can't CS5?
Am I stuck recreating the project from the ground up in CS5?

In very general terms, a contemporary PrE Project (PREL), will Open in PrPro, with the steps that you outlined.
Now, there are all sorts of considerations, for aspects that will not likely work:
Instant Movie/Themes, as PrPro cannot read those
Some Effects that PrPro does not have, like the NewBlue FX
Some Transitions that PrPro does not have
Some Title animation Presets, that PrPro does not have
Do you have any of the above in your PrE Project? There are probably other circumstances, but those are all that come immediately to my mind.
The simpler the PrE Project, the greater the likelyhood that it will Convert to a PrPro PRPROJ file.
PrE 8 and PrPro CS5 should be close enough to work, again in those general terms. I can Open simple PrE 4.0 Projects in PrPro 2.0, but cannot Open PrE 7, 8 or 9 Projects in PrPro 2.0.
Good luck,
Hunt

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