Help! Hoping to save an EDL
Well, I thought I was now a master troubleshooter following my corrupt WAV file experience a couple weeks back, but...
Having several hours into a film auto-post project, today, I was working along, closing in on finishing the project, when SAW crashed. I'd been trying some region boundary edits, moving a left boundary back and forth to find a good scene transition from a region on another track, using SoftEdges on both. Then I decided I liked it how it was, originally, so I did a couple of undo keystrokes to take me back. Or maybe it was redo keystrokes to take me forward. (That last redo coming forward always takes a little longer and stresses me out, because...) Then I saw the dreaded processing-spinning-circle windows-hang for a few seconds, and then SAW disappeared.
I'd been working with the same VSTs and WAVs in the session for a long while, so I didn't know what it might be. I changed SAW's VST_Plugins folder name to take all the VSTs out of the equation. Then I moved all the session WAVs and AVI into a temp folder. Opened the EDL, cleared all the missing-WAV and -AVI prompts, and SAW crashed. I went back and tried the most-recent undo file; crashed. I tried several other undos going back in time; crashed.
The only idea I have is that when I first created the session, I tried it with the MP4 video file that was sent to me by the video editor. I tried loading it directly into SAW, but got a "no can do" prompt of some kind. I then created an AVI from the MP4 using QuickTime. And that's what I've been using. But I wonder if SAW baked into the EDL some kind of reference to the incompatible MP4.
I suppose all this points to a corrupt EDL, but what I've never understood is how, suddenly, all the EDLs (undos) that used to be fine are suddenly now crashing SAW? Rebooting hasn't helped. Maybe I should try reinstalling SAW?
Any ideas would be most welcome.
Thanks.
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UPDATE: just did a fresh install of SAWStudio64 to a new folder. Same results. Can't open the EDL or any of its undos even with no available VSTs and no available WAVs or AVI.
Last edited by Dave Labrecque; 04-01-2021 at 01:25 PM.
Dave "it aint the heat, it's the humidity" Labrecque
Becket, Massachusetts
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