>From Your site wish list:

"document repair program 
Bugs are inevitable, and as adoption of the OpenOffice.org XML format 
increases, so will the number of buggy documents. Hence, a tool that can 
examine and repair documents might be very helpful."

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Premiere Pro 1.5 project files are XML files that can be opened in Microsoft 
FrontPage, modified (usually to change the file path for .AVI files when a 
project is moved from one computer to another)



Here is the issue. I often read in the Adobe and Matrox RT.X100 forums about 
some poor video editor who spent weeks tweaking a project only to have the 
.prproj file (it's actually an XML file) get corrupted. When this happens, 
Premiere tries to open the project and returns an error message... "Project 
appears to be damaged and can not be opened". Now there is a thing in Premiere 
called Auto-Save, but sometimes for some unknown reason it doesn't save any 
backups. When this happens, an editor can spend weeks re-editing a project, 
because there apparently isn't any way currently or time effectively to repair 
a corrupted Premiere project file.



If someone were to write an XML repair tool, and it worked in repairing 
Premiere Pro 1.5 project files, I think a lot of video editors would gladly 
$150 or more for it. I know I would.



Chuck McIntyre

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