'Nother Newbie Troubleshooting Question

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

Hi! I asked about Windows Movie MAker before, but have managed to get Premiere CS3 in the meantime and am having an issue with it.

It has to do with previewing clips on the playback screens - I can't. ^^;;

Easier for me to show you than try to explain, so [click here] for a screen cap. (Needless to say, it links to a moderately large image.)

It worked fine for a while, with the exact same clips I'm trying to use now. So far as I can tell, it seemed to start acting up when I installed a purchased version of the 3ivX codec. Could that have anything to do with it?

System stats:
PC, 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium

Any help is very appreciated - I really don't want to have to go back to Movie Maker. >.>

Comments

[pwolf.livejournal.com]

you shouldn't edit with xvid/divx/3ivx.

[pwolf.livejournal.com]

To add to that, you should uninstall anything that could decode xvid/divx/3ivx and stick with only one and see if that helps. 3ivx codec is probably decoding it and premiere doesn't like it.

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

Hm. Thanks for the tip.

I uninstalled 3ivX and I at least get audio back, but still no video playback. ^^;;

[pwolf.livejournal.com]

honestly, you are better off converting it to huffyuv or lagarith then editing like that. It can cause worse problems down the road.