• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Premiere Freezes with long XDCAM EX clips.

  Posted by Brad Allen on December 30, 2009 at 3:41 am

  Hi All,

  I recently did a multicam shoot of a school performance night with three EX-1’s. It was a 3hr show with an interval in the middle. As a result I have 6 clips roughly running at 1.5hrs each.

  Problem is Premiere completely freezes whenever I try to drop one of these clips on the timeline. I can import them to the project panel without a hitch – it’s just trying to use them that is the problem.

  I edit XDCAM EX Footage all the time without a problem. My guess is that Premiere is just chocking on these longer clips. Any ideas for a workaround or solution would be very much appreciated.

  I’m running CS4 (with 4.2 update).

  Cheers,
  Brad

  Brad Allen replied 16 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeff Pulera

  December 30, 2009 at 3:51 pm

  Hi Brad,

  One of our clients had the same issue and we were told by Adobe that the Sony Clip Browser utility should NOT be used to “convert” the clips during import, but rather the raw media folders should be copied directly from the SxS card to the video hard drive. This works perfect for our customer using CS4.

  Jeff Pulera
  Safe Harbor Computers
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  Brad Allen

  December 30, 2009 at 11:33 pm

  Thanks for that Jeff,

  Unfortunately the clips were copied using Clip Browser instead of Windows Explorer (although no conversion of file formats too place). The cards that were used for this shoot have now been wiped. Is there any way to restore the clips back to the way they were before using the clip browser software?

  Cheers,
  Brad
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  Brad Allen

  December 31, 2009 at 2:44 am

  For those interested in the future, I managed to solve this issue by going through all of the folders created by the camera and pulling out all of the individual .mp4’s.

  Essentially this strips the .mp4’s of all the extra additional meta-data. I then imported all of these mp4’s into Premiere and once conformed all was well.

  Note: This method will require that you manually relink all of the clips that the ex-1/ex-3 has split up. This is because there is no longer any meta-data that tells Premiere that they belong together. Not a big problem but worth mentioning.

  Thanks for the help 🙂

  Cheers,
  Brad

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