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Insufficient Media error
Hi, everyone!
I’m working in Adobe Premiere Pro (CS3), taking 3 thirty second video clips and putting them together, along with an audio track, to make a 1:30 video background with music.
I’m trying to apply a short cross dissolve to each of the video clips. When I do, I get an error message that there is insufficient media and some frames will be repeated.
This is a mystery to me, because each of the thirty second clips is clearly longer than the cross dissolve transition.
The transitions seem to play fine in Premiere, but do not appear to show up in any render so far (I’ve tried .avi, .mov, and .wmv)
Any idea why I might be getting this error, and how I can correct the problem?
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3 Replies
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That’s because in order for any dissolve to happen, clips need to overlap.
Premiere uses extra frames called “handle” frames outside of your cut to make this possible. If your clips are of exact captured lengh, then those extra frames are not available.
Your options are to either shorten the clips to allow dissolve time or to overlap the clips on 2 tracks and apply a dissolve to the end of the top clip and the beginning of the bottom clip.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Thank you, Vince! That makes perfect sense now.
I had seen the term “handle” before, but didn’t know what that meant.
I overlapped the clips on 2 tracks, and it worked perfectly.
Thank you so much!
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