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Multicam Window goes wrong
I’m editing a talk in CS4 that’s about and hour and a half long: it’s 2 quicktime DV files.
I’ve made a separate sequence for each (with no audio), dragged each of those sequences into a combined sequence, along with an MP3 of the audio, then I’ve dragged THAT sequence into another sequence, which is the one I’m doing the multicam edit on (I think that’s the proper way of doing multicams – it’s what I learnt on the Cow training video)
Up to about 20 minutes in, it’s all been fine, editing in real time in the Multicam Window. At that point, the video goes all corrupted and freezes: i can drag through it and hear the sound, but the image is frozen or black. At around 1hr 23, it’s all there again and works fine.
The video in the main sequence timeline plays fine, as do all the other sequences and the original files.
I went back and rendered all four sequences, restarted the computer… still the same problem at the same place.
I’m working in a custom 640×360 sequence space, with “i frame only” video previews (see my other post re problems with rendering to Quicktime video previews)
Can anyone help? I’m not enjoying CS4 much so far! -
3 Replies
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what happens if you create a new multi-cam sequence starting at the point where it corrupts in the main timeline?
gut feeling says memory problem (knowing adobe)
~Peter Berthet
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Thanks Peter,
Your suggestion made me have a *proper* look at the sequence and the original media file, and its as corrupt as [insert your least favourite government figure here]. One of the DV files turns into multicoloured static right at the point where the multicam fails. So I’ve razored that section out of that camera’s sequence, and the multicam window looks like it’ll work again (albeit with only one camera!). And I’m wondering what went wrong with BTV Pro when I captured the original video.
Thanks.
– Paddy, Bristol, UK -
multi-coloured static sounds like a tape problem, if thats the case theres not a whole lot you can do
(and id say the video file was ‘Bushed’)
~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia
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