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No Audio Track
I am a newbie here. I have a Sony HDD HandyCam and I can not get Premiere CS3 to import a clip with the audio track. I have been using Premiere Elements and it works great. When I import a file using Premiere CS3 I can not get an audio track to show up and when I play it, no sound. Any suggestions? I am recording in 5.1 sound. Please keep you suggestions simple. I am a newbie to this.
Thanks,
BPoese -
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Premiere Pro doesn’t play very well with consumer formats, especially Mpeg2. That’s partly why they came up with Elements.
I’m pretty sure that the 5.1 mic (That was a really silly feature…) is recording to a Dolby digital codec that Premiere Pro can’t deal with. I would stick with Elements for this type of camcorder.
BTW, does Elements just split that in 5 tracks? You may be able to send that from Elements into Premiere Pro.
Vince
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Believe me, I’ve tried to go from Elements to Pro it still rejects it. I have tried using “converters” to go to AVI and still nothing that I would consider to be of good quaility. I can’t even get audio into Soundbooth.
So what good (and inexpensive) camera does ADOBE want us to use with CS3? I teach at a very small community college and wanted to upgrade the video editing class and was suckered into CS3. We had been using Elements 2.0. We have 8 SONY HDD cameras for the kids to use in this class.
What gets me is that they have the software already delveloped in Elements, why take it out of CS3; it would have made it a more useful program for more people? This is one of the few programs I’ve encountered where the “Pro” version can not do something that the “Lite Edition” can do.
Thanks,
BPoese -
Well, Elements is less a “lite” version, and more designed to handle formats like Mpeg2, that unfortunately were never designed to be edited, and if you understand how Mpeg2 compression works, you’ll know why.
Premiere Pro never supported these formats. Neither do the other major editing applications. Now, you might not experience any issues with mpeg2 video right now, but you will probably start seeing glitches there as well in Premiere Pro.
DV cameras are really what you need at the minimum for editing , and you can find those for under $500.00, so it isn’t as much a matter of price, but simply that the Handycam was never designed for editing, but instead to simply dump whatever you shot to DVD.
I would blame Sony for selling cameras with a lousy, non-standard format, and not Adobe for not supporting a format that no professional editors ever use.
One thing you may be able to do is export the audio to wav (in stereo; there is no reason why you would want to use 5.1 audio coming from a single on-camera mic) then place that in the Premiere Pro timeline. Of course you’ll need an hour of class just to see that happening. My advice, get a DV camera or better…
There is actually one more option, and that is to buy a Canopus analog to digital video converter ADVC(around $250.00) . That will take the analog out of the camera and allow you to capture it as DV in Premiere Pro through firewire, just like a DV camera would.
Cheers,
Vince
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