Custom Transcode Presets Vanished, Days of Work Lost

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3 total messages Started by James_Saulpaw Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:56

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Author: James_Saulpaw
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:56

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I am working with Encore CS4. Dues to problems with PP CS4, I had to revert back to PP. That is a long story in itself. So, being the anal person that I am, I went ahead and erased my hard drive and did a fresh install of Windows and so on. All of my projects were saved on a separate drive. Once I got everything up and running I started opening projects to see if they were all okay. I should mention that I had completed every project to include the transcoding. I used a custom transcode for each project and saved them (I basically tweaked the bitrates using a calculator). Well, only about half of my projects are showing that they are transcoded and the correct custom transcode shows up on the avi properties. On the rest of my projects the custom transcodes do not show up and my avi is showing "Untranscoded." All of the transcoded files are still there in tact!!!!!

How can I fix this so that I do not have to retranscode all of these projects which already have the transcoded files?

Re: Custom Transcode Presets Vanished, Days of Work Lost

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Author: Jeff_Bellune
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:11

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Your custom transcode presets (and your preferences and workspaces) were saved under the Documents and Settings folder of your old user profile. Did you save those before you reinstalled? Can you recover them from an old backup?

Re: Custom Transcode Presets Vanished, Days of Work Lost

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Author: James_Saulpaw
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:40

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Uh, no Jeff. I found the location. My bad and I will pay for it. The automatic or prefab presets do not seem to make use of the entire disk. Matter of fact they leave a LOT of empty space. I have had excellent luck with using a bitrate calculator and setting the target rate manually.

Now, here is the goofy thing. Some of my projects retained their settings despite not having saved the custom presets. Why?

By the way, thanks for your input on my other post.

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