MEP2013 will not shut down

Scenestealer wrote on 1/18/2013, 4:22 AM

Every time I try to shut down MEP after editing a 40 min AVCHD project(s) it will close to the point of the timeline (arranger) disappearing but the Media Pool and Preview Monitor remain indefinitely, the program stops responding and needs to be terminated through Task Manager. After this the windows "problem" message appears and says MEP will be restarting which it does and if I do not reopen a project then it can be shut down normally. I have deleted the "ini" file but the problem still remains.

Anyone have any ideas?

Peter

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Gorf wrote on 1/18/2013, 6:42 AM

Assuming you can open, save and close the program fine if you create a new simple project, try this:

Open MEP, load the project, <Ctrl A> <Ctrl C> "File" "New" <Ctrl V> Save

Let us know what happens...

Scenestealer wrote on 1/19/2013, 4:31 AM

Thanks Gorf

Do you mean try copy and pasting the current project I am having trouble with?

It seems to only happen after doing a significant amount of editing in longer projects, but is quite frequent.

Peter

terrypin wrote on 1/19/2013, 8:32 AM

It seems to only happen after doing a significant amount of editing in longer projects, but is quite frequent.

Hi Peter,

Not sure I've fully understood, but given that a fresh INI doesn't fx it, then it sounds like project 'corruption', for want of a better word.

Can you find any project which, once loaded, consistently does not allow you to close MEP?

Maybe you could successively roughly halve the project, save each, and see if you can isolate the culprit section?

I assume you've rebooted PC and kicked the desk a few times?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Gorf wrote on 1/19/2013, 8:34 AM

Thanks Gorf

Do you mean try copy and pasting the current project I am having trouble with?

It seems to only happen after doing a significant amount of editing in longer projects, but is quite frequent.

Peter

No - select all the clips, then copy them, then start a new project, then paste.

I'm a novice with MEP so I'm not even sure if the clipboard survives a "new project" operation, but it's worth a shot. It's how I have to deal with project corruptions on MediaStudio Pro.

terrypin wrote on 1/20/2013, 2:13 AM

Thanks Gorf

Do you mean try copy and pasting the current project I am having trouble with?

It seems to only happen after doing a significant amount of editing in longer projects, but is quite frequent.

Peter

No - select all the clips, then copy them, then start a new project, then paste.

I'm a novice with MEP so I'm not even sure if the clipboard survives a "new project" operation, but it's worth a shot. It's how I have to deal with project corruptions on MediaStudio Pro.

Hi Gorf: No, unfortunately it doesn't. I've never understood why. Often that's exactly what I'd like to do when I hit problems like this, namely start afresh, copying across the bulk of my timeline that I'm sure is OK. But MEP clears the clipboard so you get a 'Clipboard is empty' message on attempting the paste.

What you can do is open a new movie via File > Manage movies > New or Ctrl+Alt+N or just click this icon:

Or for better quality: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/MEP2013-NewMovie.jpg

The copy then survives the tranasfer.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK