did this get resolved mecochran?  Reently, LR started showing total black on any most photos that I cropped after I accepted the crop.  I can usually resolve this by reversing the crop but I have no idea why it happens.  I am only cropping, nothing else. ... View more

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OK.  I hear about the different versions that I have but only one reply about whether it was safe to uninstall the other versions.  Well, I uninstalled the old Lightroom and, using the Creative Cloud application, uninstalled Lightroom CC.  When I opened Lightroom Classic CC it asked me to update the version of my Catalog, which I did. Now, despite saving catalogues regularly, I have a catalogue that is months old and not reflecting the days of file reorganising I have been doing.  I also don't understand why it gave me a new Catalog reference "-3".  Is there an easy way to get my latest Catalog back? ... View more

Both routes show 3 versions ... View more

Thanks aj.  I'll wait for consensus on this if you don't mind.  I am sure you are right but ... ... View more

You are right that it should not be possible Johan, but they are clearly there as 3 separate programs in the list of Adobe programs. ... View more

Seems stupid.  I updated to 7.3.1 and now can see all photos and work with them.  Why would 7.1 not see jpgs?  Anyway, problem solved but I'll leave this here in case someone else has this problem. ... View more

no idea why I put Steve in brackets there - apologies ... View more

Many thanks Ann (and Steve).  No idea still what caused this but used Handbrake, which loaded the 194Gb file very quickly and now have a 53Mb file.  It works and is brilliant.  I am over the moon. Ian ... View more

I think that is the million dollar question Ann.  I know it was not this large originally.  I use Photoshop Element Premier but I confess that I have done next to nothing in terms of video editing or combining videos as I have found the whole thing confusing.  Especially as I expected to be able to save say 3 combined and edited videos as one mp4 file instead of a project file. Anyway, I suspect that whatever caused this is me in editing but I have yet to find how I would change the bitrate in general without knowing whilst not changing the bitrate in video and audio. I cannot get Premier to open at present so this is going to be one of those stories.  I will try Handbrake.  Thanks ... View more

Hi Steve One thing I noticed is that the bit rate under general is 42.2 Gb/s compared with 12 Mb/s in  the video section.  This compares with about 7 Mb/s in both for the other, slightly shorter, mp4 file taken at the same time.  So I suspect this is the root of the problem.  How do I change that? I am loading the file into elements to check the render line but it is taking ages, especially as it is on an external storage and is 194Gb! I'll let know once loaded but I recall loading and playing the video  It was slightly jerky in places but only slightly and seemed to play at the right speed.  It played for the proper duration and there was nothing outside the video portion. ... View more

Hi Ann, Steve Just got back. This the screenshot.  The missing bottom line just says "english". ... View more

Hi Ann Sorry this is taking so long.  I am now on holiday for a couple of weeks and am trying to remotely connect to my files, which should be simple but is not working at present.  I will get back to you.  Thanks for your patience. REgards Ian ... View more

sorry Ann.  How do I do that? ... View more

Hi Ann - took me  a while to figure this out.  1st file is the ok file, second is the stupidaly large file. ... View more

Thanks Steve.  I am afraid that these two files were both taken of the same event in the same conditions with the same Sony camcoder.  I am pretty sure the original file was smaller too.  This was about 4 years ago and the camcoder is about 15 years old, I think.  Things are getting a bit vague as I don't have it with me.  I wondered whether it was possible to do something stupid in Photoshop Premier.  But I cannot see anything in that package. ... View more