Only 30 seconds of audio showing in imported H264 files

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Michael,

This is likely caused by the way it was encoded. Is that from a camera, or something that encoded for the web?

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Michael Dean]

Neither. They are h264 files I output from Premiere, from a 720p project that has XDCAM footage (with MainConcept’s plugin on my system), h264 footage from a Cannon Vixia, some mini-DV footage, as well as TIFFs, JPGs, WAVs and MP3s.

The three files I’m showing in that timeline are all two-pass good looking 1280 x 720, 59.94 FPS files. The audio is in them, if I play them in Windows Media Player I can hear the audio all the way through, but no matter how I import them back into Premiere, I can only see and hear the first 30 seconds of audio on each one, and anything I output from them in any format the first 30 seconds of audio on each one. I do not have that problem with other file types, and everything else in premiere seems to be working. For instance, I can output DVD files and author a DVD in Encore and the audio is fine.

I’m buffaloed by this issue.

Thank you!
Michael

[Michael Dean]

I solved the issue. It was an audio codec thing. I’d output as AAC. When I tried it again as AAC2 and re-imported, it worked fine.

Thanks!
MWD