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  Insufficent Media with MC 2.8

  Posted by Phil Byrd on July 8, 2008 at 1:59 pm

  I’ve been working on a sequence for about a week. Two video tracks. Four audio tracks. Then with no warning, the sequence will not play and I get the following message: EXCEPTION: PMM_INSUFFICIENT_MEDIA.

  I can make the sequence play by muting audio tracks 3 & 4. I can make the sequence play by moving some clips from tracks 3 & 4 to new audio tracks. The problem seems to reside with one of the 3-4 clips.

  Have any of you experienced this little glitch? Any idea of its cause?

  Thanks

  Phil Byrd replied 17 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Phil Byrd

  July 8, 2008 at 4:31 pm

  We’ve solved the immediate problem by using match frame and replacing audio in the offending clips. And editing continues.

  But I’m still scratching my head about the “insufficient media” warning when there was no shortage of media whatsoever.

  Any help with this mystery appreciated.

  Phil in NJ

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  Phillip Byrd
  Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
  Montclair, NJ USA
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  Michael Hancock

  July 8, 2008 at 5:38 pm

  I got the same error today, but mine was the result of a corrupt render on a motion effect. I had slowed some footage down and had it dissolving into the next shot, then trimmed the head of the motion effect back a few frames. It gave me the error, so I just clicked OK and rerendered the motion effect. Problem went away.

  I’ve had the PMM Insufficient error quite a few times, and it’s almost always caused by a render that went bad because of a trim, or because I nudged it a bit in segment mode and the render went offline.

  It could be that you had a bad audio dissolve? Did you have any motion effects in your timeline, or is it straight cuts? I think what you did was the best solution–matchframe, replace media with the original.

  Otherwise, I’m not sure what caused your error. Like I said, I’ve only gotten them because of a bad render, and 99% of the time it was a motion effect render.

  Michael.
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  Phil Byrd

  July 8, 2008 at 5:55 pm

  Michael,

  My problem was with a sequence full of straight cuts (initial sequence for a one-hour music special). I managed to isolate the problem to audio tracks, all from the same source tape and all recorded at the same time. No motion effects. No effects of any type.

  I’m still scratching my head about this one. But we’re back in business after the workaround.

  thanks

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  Phillip Byrd
  Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
  Montclair, NJ USA

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