First time use of PMW-150 Footage in PPro

[Tim Kolb]

Try using the media browser to bring the material into your project vs using “import”.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Sascha Engel]

Did not use PPro for quiet a while…where do I find the Media Browser?
Thanx.

Greetings,

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Sascha Engel]

I found the media browser – Problem: The MFX Files do not show up under “Supported Files”, if I switch to all files, they do, but still the same problem: They playback without sound. Maybe MFX files are too much even for PPro. They seem to be unsupported by PPro.

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Jon Barrie]

Which version of Premiere Pro are you using? MXF may not be supported.

Can you confirm the files are actually MXF not MFX…

if you have the latest version of Pr then the Media Browser is the way to import them. If you don’t have audio with the clips this way then you may want to confirm that the clips actually have audio.

Cheers JB

Jon Barrie
Adobe Video Solutions Consultant ANZ
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[Sascha Engel]

Hi Jon,

thanx for your interest.
The version is CS 5.5 – and yes, the 4 Mono Tracks contain Audio.

Greetings,

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Tim Kolb]

If they were unsupported by PPro, you wouldn’t see video…

When you bring the file(s) in, how long are you waiting before playback? The audio from those files has to “conform”, meaning that Premiere Pro needs to cache some data nd create some preview acceleration files and that may take a bit depending on how long the clips are. Until the conforming is finished, you won’t get audio playback in the timeline.

There is usually a progress indicator running in the lower right bottom of the interface that is visible while this is happening.

I have a feeling this may be what’s happening while you’re trying to use the clips immediately after bringing them in.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Sascha Engel]

Hi Tim,

Thanx for that tip. It could be. I will check. I threw a 3min video on the TL.
How long should that take before it’s in the cash memory?

Greetings,

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Sascha Engel]

That was it! Thanx. But actually the conforming time takes longer than getting it inserted into FCP…so in that case FCP 7 is faster to work with those files.

Greetings,

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Tim Kolb]

[Sascha Engel] “But actually the conforming time takes longer than getting it inserted into FCP…so in that case FCP 7 is faster to work with those files.”

…as long as you completely discount the fact you had to transcode or rewrap the file to use it in FCP7 in the first place

(which is what I find most FCP editors do when evaluating Premiere Pro’s speed), then sure, you could say that.

I can’t vouch for your system…processor, RAM, etc…I have no idea what drive your cache files are targeted to, how full that drive is or how fast it is…

However if given the choice to transcode every single clip, tripling the data space the media takes up before I even start cutting, or importing native files and waiting for some audio conform…I suspect on a machine that is configured to do the work, this is still faster.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Robert D’alexis]

FWIW, I imported a 3 hour 20 min long clip from my Sony PMW-350 which produces XDCAM EX files with 4 audio channels and the audio took 1 minute and 21 seconds to conform.