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September 26, 2022
Question

Timeline turns black, corrupts project

  • September 26, 2022
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Hello Adobe community, 

My editing team and I are experiencing the strangest issue that proves to be detrimental to our progress. I haven't seen this reported anywhere.

We are running Adobe's production feature across 2 computers. Whenever I open up multiple projects and multiple timelines (usually around 6-8 timelines open simultaneously), one of my timeliness prodcues these black bars as pictured below:

Anytime I zoom in/out of the timeline, the whole timeline window goes black. When I scrub the playhead back and forth, it will reveal the clips underneath the black as pictured below:

I cannot play any of the media when this glitch happens, so I am forced to save my work and restart premiere. However, this is where the issue becomes catastrophic. Whenever I try to re-open my saved work, I am faced with the "Project could not be loaded, it may be damaged or contain outdated elements" message. Where it gets weirder is that when I try and go back to my autosaves, every autosave from the entire day has become "damaged." 

This glitch truly leaves me baffled. I have been using premiere for quite some time now and I have never seen anything like this. We are desperate for this to be resolved. Below, I have included the steps we have taken to rectify this issue as well as our computer's specs. 

 

What we've tried:

-Contacted the Adobe tech support for a remote session

-Downgraded to previous versions of Premiere

-Changed the renderer 

-Cleared media cache

-Manually saving progress to multiple drives to avoid the projects corrupting- no luck

-Changing the RAM reserved for Premiere

-Updating graphics card

 

Computer Specs:

Computer 2 Specs:

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7GHz Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 10GB GDDR6X
64GB DDR4-3200 RAM
2TB Solid State M.2 Drives x2
4TB Solid State drive

Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
10/100/1000/10000 Network
Intel Wireless AC-9260
Bluetooth 5.0

 

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2 replies

Participating Frequently
September 27, 2022

We are having the same issue. The difference is that once the timeline goes black, we cant save the black timeline project at all. 

R Neil Haugen
Legend
September 27, 2022

I think once that happens, it's probably corrupt, sadly.

 

How long are they when the go black? As the above seemed to point to a potential cause being simply the length of the sequence. Long complex sequences may at some point simply go 'poof'.

 

Which would be perhaps ameliorated in practical use by working on segements as separate sequences, then 'nesting' the segments together as Jarle suggests.

 

It's even a better organized working process.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Legend
September 26, 2022

tell me where your media comes from.  pixel dimensions, codec, frame rate and what camera the material was shot on...

Does this happen to the same sequence or does that vary?    Do you have the gaming version of the drivers for the graphics card installed?  If so, install the other driver...  (can't remember what it's called).  gaming drivers can cause problems.

There are some basic troubleshooting steps to try:  

Create a new user account on your computer with administrator privileges and log in to the new account and see if that helps. 

Do you have any peripherals connected besides external hard drives?  If so, disconnect them...

Disconnect from the network/internet by turning off wifi and pulling ethernet cable.

 

Please answer the questions and try the troubleshooting steps in a systematic fashion.  Never easy to troubleshoot from a distance.  

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 26, 2022
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 If so, install the other driver...  (can't remember what it's called).  gaming drivers can cause problems.


By @Michael Grenadier

 

Studio Driver.