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CS3 to CS4 Problems
Hi,
Like others who have posted here, I am having trouble opening and/or importing CS3 projects in CS4.
In my case the audio goes out of sync – but it’s not every clip and not by the same amount, so I can’t just do a bulk shift of the all the audio by a set number of frames.
I have tried a few suggestions I have come across but nothing has worked for me yet.
I’m wondering:
• Is there a consensus view about the cause?
• Is there a general solution that maybe I’ve missed?
• Is there any word from Adobe about when or if there might be a patch to solve this apparently quite extensive problem?I remember the same problems when upgrading to CS3, so it is a disappointment Adobe have seemingly allowed the same bug to replicate again.
Luckily, I still have CS3 on another (slower) system so can at least finish these projects there. But, I was really hoping to be able to take advantage of the render queue functionality offered by CS4.
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How are you transferring your project? I just transferred like 5 huge projects to a new computer and the audio was fine. All I did was use the project mananger to consolidate the entire project and then I copied the one large folder with all the files over to the Mac Pro.
When you do it this way you do have to point Premiere to the files when you try to open the project, which if the project is big could take a few minutes. I have done it this way since the option was available in Premiere.
I don’t know if that will help but I thought I would share my experience with it.
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I’ve tried something very similar, except I’m working in Windows Vista.
I have used project manager to create a clean, tidy copy of the project. This opens and works fine in CS3. But, when I copy the entire thing (project file plus folder with all the contents) onto a different system with CS4 it opens and recompiles yet I have these arbitrary out of sync audio problems.
It’s a pity because the media encoder in CS4 would have changed my life!
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Huh that’s weird. I guess your only recourse is to call Adobe and see if they can solve the problem for you.
Do the audio clips in the timeline appear out of sync, moved over, or is it actually screwing the files itself.
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I have had similar problems opeining CS3 projects in CS4 where my audio was missing entirely. Sometimes I can open the project and need to render some video files and premiere will render some of the files then lock up and stop responding.
Any updates on the problem? Have you found a solution?
I’m using Vista 64
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I had rather given up trying to find a solution. I’m currently running two different systems one with CS3 for projects already in progress and one in CS4 for entirely new projects.
However, I have ascertained that CS4 actually alters some of the original files. I seem to remember the file sizes of some WAVs changed. I noticed this when comparing folders. I had opened identical projects in CS3 and CS4 – each with its own independent set of identical rushes – after indexing and conforming some of the file sizes had changed. The difference wasn’t much but they had changed.
Sorry, I don’t have anything helpful to say about a solution or workaround but if this extra info helps anybody to debug this nuisance problem then please post back with the fix.
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