• Adobe Premiere Pro

  XF100 Footage Not behaving

  Posted by Rick Rose on December 18, 2013 at 6:14 am

  Hi all,

  I posted earlier today that I was having issues with editing a project coming from a Windows Machine to a Mac. Premiere Pro CC in both cases.

  In a few instances, the right ‘clips’ are in the timeline but the wrong ‘part of the clip’ was being played, as if the clip had ‘slipped’.

  It turns out the issue is all with MXF footage shot on a Canon XF100, and spanned over multiple files. Yet, the previous editor confirmed that it works fine on Windows

  The original XF100 cards are not available.
  The XF100 directory structure was not maintained on the disk, files are just dumped into a folder. Files on the disk in general are a mess.

  In one case, this is the situation.
  6 files on a disk, which represent one big clip (spanned)

  In the Program Tab, all 6 files are in there.
  Each duration is the length of all 6 clips combined. *26 minutes*
  In actual fact, each clip is 5 minutes 13 seconds or less.
  In the preview window and source monitor the whole clip shows.
  The wrong content is on the timeline.

  Any words of advice?
  Can someone help me recreate a card structure?

  Thanks for any help

  Paul Neumann replied 12 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeff Pulera

  December 18, 2013 at 7:30 pm

  Hi Rick,

  Sorry to hear about the dilemma, don’t have an easy fix to offer unfortunately. Moving forward, best practice is to keep original folder structure and in Premiere, import using Media Browser and this provides best results for seamless import of spanned clips. Maybe you already know all of that and need to educate your co-conspirators 😉

  Thanks

  Jeff Pulera
  Safe Harbor Computers
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  Rick Rose

  December 18, 2013 at 8:35 pm

  Thanks Jeff.

  Appreciate that. Yes, I learned that lesson very early on. 🙂 I am surprised that it behaved differently in Windows.

  You are absolutely right 🙂

  I’m going through and replacing each spanned piece with a .mov file. Not ideal, not foolproof for a bunch of technical reasons but it’s better than what I had. Most clips are now matching up.

  Thank you.
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  Paul Neumann

  December 18, 2013 at 10:47 pm

  That’s a weird length for something coming from the XF100. I shoot with those and at the highest quality/frame rate offered and I don’t get spanned clips that short.

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