ACK. (All clips just disappeared from my vid!)

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I have been working on a vid using Premiere 6.0. I just finished it tonight and was planning to export it. The vid was saved, complete, with all the clips on the timeline where they were supposed to be. I exited out of Premiere and got online (my computer can't handle doing both at once) because I needed to refresh my memory about how to export and compress.

I went to this post, and--well, this is the part where I fail at reading comprehension. I already have the AMV App, but I searched for the Panasonic DV codec on my harddrive and didn't find it, so, I figured it couldn't hurt to download it, following the link astolat gave. I downloaded the Panasonic DV codec and installed it.

Then I started Premiere up again and opened my vid file. ...And all of my clips were gone. The only video left was black video that I had created and put in some spots. The clips were not on the timeline, and they weren't in the project files/bin thing on the side, either. (The files in the sidebar thingie were my audio and the black video--that was it.)

I thought this might be a glitch, since Premiere is buggy for me sometimes, so, I closed Premiere (without saving the vid) and opened the file again. Same thing. I closed Premiere again (saying 'no' to the 'do you want to save?' question again) and restarted my computer. Then I opened the project again. Still no clips.

Now I'm wondering if downloading and installing the Panasonic DV codec did this, but I don't know how to get rid of it! I would really like to get my clips back and not lose the vid.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Halloween by Gabriel Tavares, Heroes (Sylar/Mohinder)

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Fandom: Heroes
Summary: It's Halloween, and Sylar's wearing his Zane suit. (Sylar/Mohinder)
Music: "Halloween" by Gabriel Tavares
Download/Streaming: Over Here. (WMV, MPEG-1, Streaming)
Length: 2:36 min.
Spoilers: Uses Season 1 footage only.

Nonfannish vid contest with prizes

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[Mods - I hope this is OK to post here despite its nonfannish content. If not please accept my apologies and feel free to delete.]

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard (disclosure: my employer) is hosting a short video contest to help explain web cookies to average internet users. As a fan myself, I'm hoping that some members of fandom might be interested in entering, and getting a little outside recognition and possibly prize money from their fannishly-earned vidding skills.

Finalists will get a trip to Washington, D.C., where their videos will be aired and discussed at the United States Federal Trade Commission’s November 1-2 Town Hall workshop entitled “Ehavioral Advertising: Tracking, Targeting, and Technology.” Several prizes will be awarded, including one grand prize of $5,000.

The contest will run until October 20, 2007 - so the time is unfortunately quite short (due to the timing of the FTC event). Fortunately the videos also ought to be quite short - 2 minutes max. EDIT - Deadline extended to 11:59 pm Pacific time Sunday 10/21.

More info, including official rules & guidelines and entry instructions, is here. I'm also happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Clips back! ...Still having issues. (Video previews not showing up.)

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I posted last night about how all the clips had disappeared from both the bin and the timeline in my Premiere 6.0 video project.

After messing around and trying a bunch of different things, finally, I took one of my clips and opened it using GSpot to see what codec it was using. GSpot said the clip needed LAGS (Lagarith) but that my computer didn't have this codec and couldn't play the video file. (Which was weird, since I used to have Lagarith and hadn't deleted it.)

So, I downloaded Lagarith and installed it. I opened my vid project in Premiere...and my clips were back! Hoorah! They were in the bin and on the timeline where they belonged! Unfortunately, though, the problem isn't completely resolved.

( Clips don't show up in the preview window, but they work fine elsewhere. )

Any advice on how to fix this would be appreciated. :)

House M.D. Video: House/Cuddy, "Sacred Simplicity"

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Fandom: House M.D.
Summary: A music video following the paths of House and Cuddy - what he is to her, what she is to him, and what they have become together. (House/Cuddy)
Music: "Eric's Song" by Vienna Teng
Download/Streaming: Download links here; YouTube and MediaFire
Length: 5:05 min.
Spoilers: Through season four episode three.