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Media missing: PremierePro 1.0 project opened in CS3
We edit most projects on one of 3 VelocityQ systems. But we have a Blackmagic HD Decklink system with Premiere CS3 that we use some for photo montages, some HD projects and the like.
We have a sales DVD we did for a furniture client. It’s just a photo montage of their product lines, edited to music with nicely designed moving supers. Very simple project originally edited 3-4 years ago on Premiere Pro 1.0 with a DVStorm system.
The client wanted to update it this week. So we restored the project, then imported it into CS3 on the Decklink system. Problem is, the file imports but doesn’t correctly reassociate clips or conform/resample the music (it was 44kz music provided by the client). Project settings are the same on CS3, except for the fact that we’re using the Blackmagic codecs rather than the Canopus ones. Pixel aspect, frame rate, audio bit depth etc. are all the same. The project is entirely photos, graphics and supers.
The project bin also doesn’t list the location of the missing files. So we have to go through the timeline and replace each, clip by clip, stopping to search for the files in explorer (there are hundreds of photos and supers in dozens of product specific directories). It’s tedious.
CS3 also complains the rendered files are missing, but I understand that, which is because we originally used a Canopus DV codec and it’s missing from this system. But what I don’t understand is:
1. Why CS3 finds some files, but not others, when nothing has changed from this project originally done in PP1?
2. Why CS3 doesn’t recognize the music is 44kz, and automatically conform it to the project’s settings of 48kz? We had to resample the music in Sound Forge to get it load in CS3.
3. Why CS3 doesn’t show the location, (path/filename etc. the way After Effects does) of the various clips?
It’s not critical as we got it all restored. But it took literally an hour and a half to get a simple project restored correctly, when in my mind, we should’ve been able to import it and be done.
Thanks in advance.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com -
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