Bridge destroys avi files in CC

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
June 22, 2020
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I am finding .AVI files that no longer have thumbs nor will play.

I came upon some that showed thumbs and were playable, but they had the wrong creation dates. Bridge often applies false dates to movies, years before, as well as putting camera models that I didn't use and haven't owned for many years.

Checking the correct dates in my database, I changed, in description and camera data, as I have often needed to for .MOV files. In this case, the thumbs changed to icons, and they won't play in Bridge nor media player and won't even import into Premiere Pro, saying wrong file type.

Problem or error

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jbm007

Community Expert

Clear the cache in those folders and try again.

As new updates occur it appears that Bridge has issues reading file cache and rendering information properly.

R

robirdman1Author

Inspiring

Clearing the cache, compacting, purging, reseting did not help. These files are destroyed and won't even open or play in Nikon view NX-i. This happened because Bridge frequently assigns a wrong date to movie files, which may be years past. I checked my database and corrected some dates, and the thumbnails turned to icons and are no longer playable in Bridge, Windows media, Premiere Pro or Nikon view NX-i. The latter says that the size is too small and must be at least 160x120 pixels.

I have checked other movies where Bridge gave a date years past or a camera lens not owned in a decade and View NX-i has the right data.

Lately Bridge has been giving the right date but the wrong time. So I'll have a mix of NEFs and MOVs taken in the afternoon and all the movies have times in the hours of 10 or 11 pm or even the next early morning.

This defective and dangerous product should have never been released to the public in such a bug-ridden condition, and it is outrageous that people get good salaries and Adobe extorts so much through it's subscription scheme. I may be able to recover some of the most recent corrupted files from a backup, but I don't know how many were ruined before and the backups were overwritten already.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi Robirdman,

I'm sorry for obvious tremendous issues you are clearly having.

However, something else is clearly going on. Bridge is a viewer that does give you the ability to view files and view metadata that YOU can change. This is no different than looking at a file in Explorer and looking at the metadata in Explorer.

As to what's going on I do not have a clue as I'm a Mac user and do not know the intricacies of the PC format. But please, for your own benefit, look in other areas for the obvious problems you are having.

Good luck!

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