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Audio Drop out in Timeline
Another new one on me. I am getting (rare) audio drop outs (1/2 second) when playing a single hour long DV footage in the timeline, rendered or not, with or without effects, always at the same place. The frame analyzer in Premiere looks fine.
These were captured from my Sony DSR 30 DVCAM deck, and there is no video drop out and weren’t any dropped frames during capture.
I don’t have the original tape at this time, but this drop out isn’t happening when playing the footage in a media player such as Windows Media or Quicktime; tried deleting the peek files, previews, no help.
Any ideas?
Vince
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5 Replies
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Might be a conflict of hard drive demanded to deliver video and audio at the same time and the files are badly fragmented at that point on the platters. Defrag hard drives and if still a problem, delete peek files and change the Preference scratch disc for that to another hard drive. Premiere is playing 2 files (video and peek audio), Media Player is playing just one .avi.
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Mike, I have 4 dedicated HD’s which are defragmented weekly. The problem also appears on any exported files from that timeline.
The drop out is actually 2 frames only, but very noticeable, and appears about 12 times, at very specific points.
Vince
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Any clues in the waveform on the timeline?
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Hi Mike,
Well, this is where I got. Imported the footage into Adobe Audition, same drop outs.
As I am editing through this footage, I’m realizing that it’s happening about every two minutes, pretty consistently, not always noticeable because of silences. Why Windows Media doesn’t pickup those drop outs, I don’t know.
Could be an adobe thing, but I have a feeling those could be capture errors, maybe dirty heads.
I was also using Windv at the time because I was capturing on a laptop, that could be it too.
I’ll start the capture from scratch and post an update. Thanks for taking a stab at it.
Vince
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I used Scenalyzer’ s DV reapir tool, and the miracle fix came through. I guess this will have to be another praise for such cheap, yet useful piece of software.
That still doesn’t tell me where those errors are coming from, but at least I don’t have to get that tape shipped overnight, probably would have cost me more than buying Scenalyzer all over again 😉
Vince.
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