basspig
Veteran
After a week of troubleshooting problems with missing audio on some XDCam clips ONCE IMPORTED to a project, and after experiencing a total refusal to process ANY audio at all on an XDCam project today, I have come to the tentative conclusion that Premiere CS3.2 only works on small projects and clips not much longer than an hour.
I found that a project with 183 clips was too much. Nothing past 125 clips would conform--anymore, and there would be errors and a bunch of clips with no audio.
And tonight, I recored a 92-minute talk that spanned 2 16GB SxS cards. When I imported the project, there was the usual errors about the XML files, but also an 'error compiling movie' error. And... there was no conforming happening at all. And when I played the project--no audio at all!
And what's with Clip Browser 2.0? As a last ditch attempt to get SOME audio, I'm converting all clips to MXF format, but unlike the earlier Clip Browser, which took a few seconds to covert a large clip, this one is taking the better part of an hour to rewrap ONE clip! So it's going to be another 40 minutes or so before I can even test out the concept of brining in MXF for the audio portion and grafting it onto the existing video (I can't use the MXF in Premiere because there's some problem with the color subsampling degrading with MXF files, so must use MP4 for the video and MXF for the audio.
It looks though, like Premiere is no good for long-form XDCam editing.
UPDATE:
I spent an hour converting the XDCam footage to MXF, hoping that would solve the Premiere import problem. It didn't. When importing, at least there's no error, but it doesn't conform and there's no audio, not even in the bin clips.
I'll have to fire up an old version of Vegas to get the audio from this clip and export it to Premiere.
ANOTHER UPDATE:
A last ditch effort: Used clip browser to split the clip up into two smaller ones.
Import into Premiere. "Error compiling movie. Unknown error." Click past that. Drag folder to timeline. As thumbnails begin to appear, Premiere terminates unexpectedly with no warning or error message. Specifically, it is the second clip of the split clip parts that crashed Premiere, as identified by playing them in the bin. The first half plays, albeit with no audio, but so much as touching the second half clip results in Premiere rapidly vanishing from the screen.
This is a really disappointing development, as I will be doing more long form projects from now on and need an NLE that can handle them.
At this point, for expedience, I have to move these files to Vegas and work there.
I found that a project with 183 clips was too much. Nothing past 125 clips would conform--anymore, and there would be errors and a bunch of clips with no audio.
And tonight, I recored a 92-minute talk that spanned 2 16GB SxS cards. When I imported the project, there was the usual errors about the XML files, but also an 'error compiling movie' error. And... there was no conforming happening at all. And when I played the project--no audio at all!
And what's with Clip Browser 2.0? As a last ditch attempt to get SOME audio, I'm converting all clips to MXF format, but unlike the earlier Clip Browser, which took a few seconds to covert a large clip, this one is taking the better part of an hour to rewrap ONE clip! So it's going to be another 40 minutes or so before I can even test out the concept of brining in MXF for the audio portion and grafting it onto the existing video (I can't use the MXF in Premiere because there's some problem with the color subsampling degrading with MXF files, so must use MP4 for the video and MXF for the audio.
It looks though, like Premiere is no good for long-form XDCam editing.
UPDATE:
I spent an hour converting the XDCam footage to MXF, hoping that would solve the Premiere import problem. It didn't. When importing, at least there's no error, but it doesn't conform and there's no audio, not even in the bin clips.
I'll have to fire up an old version of Vegas to get the audio from this clip and export it to Premiere.
ANOTHER UPDATE:
A last ditch effort: Used clip browser to split the clip up into two smaller ones.
Import into Premiere. "Error compiling movie. Unknown error." Click past that. Drag folder to timeline. As thumbnails begin to appear, Premiere terminates unexpectedly with no warning or error message. Specifically, it is the second clip of the split clip parts that crashed Premiere, as identified by playing them in the bin. The first half plays, albeit with no audio, but so much as touching the second half clip results in Premiere rapidly vanishing from the screen.
This is a really disappointing development, as I will be doing more long form projects from now on and need an NLE that can handle them.
At this point, for expedience, I have to move these files to Vegas and work there.
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