LanceLewis
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I have imported footage from my SD cards into Adobe Premiere (verion 4). For any clip that is larger than 4gig, the clip is broken into smaller clips. This was expected and of no concern. However, when I place the clips together on the timeline, I get three repeated frames at the beginning of each clip (not on the first clip). I have read a few posts on this but have not yet been able to fix my problem. The clips play together nicely when viewing them directly on the PS3 from the SDHC card. However, when they come into premiere, I get the above problem.
I have copied the files to my computer using the AVCCam viewer which created a whole new directory and folder structure. I have then tried importing these clips in a variety of fashions: Directly importing each clip, importing the whole file structure, importing from the media browser window directly. All yield the same result, 3 frozen frames at the beginning of each 4 gig clip. It should be noted that if I was to delete 2 of these frames, there are actually 2 frames missing.
Again, I have seen that there have been posts about this, Bob Diaz explains about starting and stopping (not an option for me). Someone else said that once they imported the file structure correctly that it wasn't a problem: What is the best way to import (I think I am doing it right already????). I'm hoping that I don't need an intermediate program to handle this.
Anyone with Premiere (CS4) that can verify that this is indeed a problem with 4 and I will simply have to upgrade, or that they are able to make it work with CS4 by doing ????
My aplogies if this is not the right forum for this post
I have copied the files to my computer using the AVCCam viewer which created a whole new directory and folder structure. I have then tried importing these clips in a variety of fashions: Directly importing each clip, importing the whole file structure, importing from the media browser window directly. All yield the same result, 3 frozen frames at the beginning of each 4 gig clip. It should be noted that if I was to delete 2 of these frames, there are actually 2 frames missing.
Again, I have seen that there have been posts about this, Bob Diaz explains about starting and stopping (not an option for me). Someone else said that once they imported the file structure correctly that it wasn't a problem: What is the best way to import (I think I am doing it right already????). I'm hoping that I don't need an intermediate program to handle this.
Anyone with Premiere (CS4) that can verify that this is indeed a problem with 4 and I will simply have to upgrade, or that they are able to make it work with CS4 by doing ????
My aplogies if this is not the right forum for this post
You are going to have to transcode to an editable codec like Cineform. I am running CS5 on my Mac and even though it says you can ingest AVCHD footage without transcoding, and you can, if you don't have a graphics card with 1GB of memory and a nice quad core i7 processor then as soon as you add some transitions and color correction you'll need to start rendering footage (takes a lot of time) so you may as well convert to a codec that was designed to be edited. Adobe even says that this "feature" is only for quick and dirty edits.