Is there a way to move in a clip that's over 26 hours long into Adobe Premiere P

[John Cuevas]

I don’t have a 26 hour clip to play with so I can’t experiment, but I would try bringing it into Encoder or some other program and then render out individual sections into something more manageable, like 13 two hour clips

[Jonathan Reed]

Not even Media Encoder will accept it! I used “Trim” in quicktime to get it into two segments. One at 15 hours and the other being the remaining time. Those went in with no problem. I can put one clip into a timeline with no problem but APP won’t let me put both on the same time line. Yes, it has to be all in one timeline and uninterrupted.

Currently my work around is i’m “bending” the rules by time-lapsing a certain part, but as it stands, it won’t let me put the pure clip in.

[Tod Hopkins]

Try striping the time code from the file. Rolling time code past 24 hours is problematic because you’ll end up with duplicate, non-ascending code. So you either need to break it apart or switch to an editor not bound by code. Even if you can get the file in this way, Premiere probably can’t create a timeline longer than 24 hours. You can try changing the sequence count to audio units maybe but there is no non-timecode sequence setting.

The simplest path is probably to divide and conquer. Edit in Premiere in two pieces and then reassemble the two exports with a non-TC bound tool like FFWorks.

Or just switch to a control track capable editor to start with.

[Jonathan Reed]

Thank you so much for this info. I don’t know how to strip anything so that’ll be something to learn. And I’m not allowed too. But knowing the max timeline that Adobe Premiere Pro can create helps me greatly. I’m really having to get super creative with this.

[Tod Hopkins]

Mind you, like others I don’t have a 24+ clip to test so I don’t know for sure what PP can and can’t do. I’m presuming based on experience and theory. As for stripping the code, there are tools to do this but really you want to convert to a non-time code format (mp4, HEVC, JPEG image sequence, etc) using a tool that does not automatically copy the tc metadata. All these can have tc metadata but they don’t expect tc like ProRes or MXF.

I suggest learning an FFmpeg front end like FFWorks or Shutter Encoder, even Handbrake might work. Handbrake is surprisingly handy if your destination is mp4.

[Michael Grenadier]

I’d suggest you post your question on the Adobe Premiere forum. Although there’s no guarantee, you may see some replies from the Premiere team. When I tried to include a link to the forum, creative cow flagged it as spam…

[Brie Clayton]

Just giving this a shot to see if it goes through. We don’t have the spam filters set up to flag for Adobe.
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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Jonathan,

Before answering, it would be good to know what version of Premiere Pro you are using, what is the file format of the 26 hour video, and what kind of storage do you use?

As Tom correctly says, going past 24 hours is a problem for any time-code based file. But depending on your file format, one can easily think that the time counter is the time-code.

I would be curious to check whether there is enough space on your cache folder to do the audio encoding, if required?

If you haven’t already tried it, it might be interesting to find out what After Effects will do if presented with that clip?

And, if you have access, maybe check FCPX and Davinci for their reactions to the file.

I am not suggesting that you change editing platform, but only to see if the others will go, where PPro won’t. Mind you, if FCPX takes it, the Apple Media-File manager is likely to “enforce” an encode to a format of their liking.

There is also more highend solution made for Broadcast and CCTV operations, where they run 24/7 continous recordings. Some of those systems will allow PPro to access and edit the video as it is recording.

Hope that this help you get a little bit further.

Atb

Mads

[Tod Hopkins]

In a “duh” moment, I realized it was easy to test the max sequence length in Premiere. I can report that it is, indeed, 24 hours. Even setting the sequence to film feet and frames still maxes at 24 hours. Even if you can bring the clip in, you can’t put it in a timeline. FYI this was the current version of PP on Mac.