Issues with merged clips in CS 5.5

[Cyrus Dowlatshahi]

Well I’ve got CS6 up and running and tried merging clips w/o going through them all and breaking out to mono. It’s a little early to tell since the problem didn’t crop up immediately back in CS5.5, but it looks like this bug has been addressed.

[Danny Nieder]

That’s really great news. Thanks for testing.

[Alec Toller]

Hey,

Any further news on CS6? Still all clear?
I’m on CS5.5. I just synced a bunch of files that were originally mono (4-track), and upon saving and reopening tracks 2-4 are blank. Strangely, when I merge them by dragging the synced camera and video to a bin (prompting a merge clips command) I get the issue, but if I merge clips by selected the audio and video that I’d like in the project viewer, it seems to be all right. I’m just trying to avoid re-syncing and re-annotating all my footage….

[Nathaniel Bartrum]

Just encountered a version of this problem, myself. After synching six channels of mono track to my DSLR .mov files for almost a week (without issue), Premiere 5.5.0 crashed on me. Upon re-starting the program, none of the mono .wav files would play audio in my merged clips. In fact, the waveforms for each separate track seems to have been “wiped” clean. They are simply dead tracks, now. Oddly, the stereo camera track (which was automatically split to two mono tracks when I merged the clip) is still working fine and dandy… too bad I have practically no use for it.

I’ve tried deleting the media cache and re-conforming the files. I’ve tried re-labeling the files, and starting with the files offline before re-linking in Premiere… nothing is bringing back my audio. It looks like I may have lost a whole lot of work.

Having reconciled myself to re-synching all of my footage, I’m now looking for a vote of confidence that it won’t happen again. I updated to version 5.5.2, which will hopefully have addressed the problem. But I’m still not feeling terribly confident in Premiere, and am nervous about using it to re-synch all of my footage. Does anyone have any new insight into this issue? Anyone know if the 5.5.2 update addressed the bug? I would really appreciate any advice!

[Cyrus Dowlatshahi]

I had identical issues. I upgraded to CS6 and have not had them since. 5.5.2? That’s been out for a while man!

Unfortunately you’ve lost work. I did too and tried everything under the sun to get it back and nothing worked. You find something, I’d be interested to hear what it is.