Different P2 clips are all identical when I import them

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CSheep

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Hi,

I did a quick search, but could not find an answer to my problem...hopefully someone can help :dankk2:

I shot a friend's music recital a couple months ago and he initially cut in CS3. Today, he asked me if I could try to re-render it for him because the DVD he made was of poor quality.

Since I have CS4, I guess the program did some kind of conversion to make the project compatible. Since then, all the different P2 clips in my bin (although they have different names even in Premiere and play correctly in P2 viewer) now only have the video/audio of the very first clip.

I tried taking the clips out, making them offline, and even replacing them but no matter what each clip reimports itself has the clip from the first P2 card (they really should be 6 10mn clip from 6 different cards though)...strange

If anyone can help me it would be great...all the audio/transitions and everything else is fine so I'd like to just be able to insert the right clips.

:huh:
 
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You don't specifically mention if the "6 10mn clip from 6 different cards" are the product of one continuous shot that spans those 6 cards, but if it does, check out the following.

One thing that was added in CS4 that was not really advertised is that it now has the ability to span clips that are recorded to multiple cards. Previously, if you had a shot that spanned multiple P2 cards, you'd have to import each individual clip and stitch them together. However, in CS4, if you import the first clip from the first card, it will automatically stitch together all of the spanned pieces and create a clip that is as long as the original recording.

So what's happening in your case is that you have 6 full-length copies of the clip in the bin. Each source clip in your project is pointing to the entire duration of the shot.

I'm not sure if this will work, but here's what I'd try: import a fresh copy of the very first clip portion, which will stitch together everything from the 6 cards as one long clip. Load up the clip in the source monitor, and check that all of the media is present in this newly imported clip. Then while holding Alt and Shift, drag the clip to your first timeline instance and drop it. This will replace the original clip with a new clip reference and it will respect the timecode of the original clip. You'll have to do this for each clip reference in the timeline, but you should be able to move pretty quickly.

Post back if that works, or if it doesn't, and we'll go from there. Good luck!
 
Yes I guess it was one continuous shot. The problem is I could have sworn it was 6 clips with only the footage from the first clip when I imported them. Anyway I'm going to try thanks for your help!
 
cbrougham said:
You don't specifically mention if the "6 10mn clip from 6 different cards" are the product of one continuous shot that spans those 6 cards, but if it does, check out the following.

One thing that was added in CS4 that was not really advertised is that it now has the ability to span clips that are recorded to multiple cards. Previously, if you had a shot that spanned multiple P2 cards, you'd have to import each individual clip and stitch them together. However, in CS4, if you import the first clip from the first card, it will automatically stitch together all of the spanned pieces and create a clip that is as long as the original recording.

So what's happening in your case is that you have 6 full-length copies of the clip in the bin. Each source clip in your project is pointing to the entire duration of the shot.

I'm not sure if this will work, but here's what I'd try: import a fresh copy of the very first clip portion, which will stitch together everything from the 6 cards as one long clip. Load up the clip in the source monitor, and check that all of the media is present in this newly imported clip. Then while holding Alt and Shift, drag the clip to your first timeline instance and drop it. This will replace the original clip with a new clip reference and it will respect the timecode of the original clip. You'll have to do this for each clip reference in the timeline, but you should be able to move pretty quickly.

Post back if that works, or if it doesn't, and we'll go from there. Good luck!
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God I'm an idiot... How could I not see the clips were anhour long each...

Thank you so much for your help!
 
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