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Premiere 6.0 to Premiere Pro 2.0 problem
I’m re-editing a project for someone that was started in Premiere 6.0. I use Premiere Pro 2.0. PP2 seemed to have no issues importing the project file, but when I try to re-link the offline media I get “The selected file cannot be linked because its type (video) does not match the original file’s type (audio and video).”
I did a straight copy of his media folder to an external hard drive, so all the files are exactly the same. I am clicking on the exact file when trying to re-connect. I have Premiere 6.0 on another machine and I got a similar error (which I don’t understand since that’s what he used). I’m using XP and he had Windows 2000. Someone suggested I may need to install Matrox codecs to use his AVIs properly, which I did, and it still doesn’t work.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
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3rd party capture cards and Premiere use a hardware enabled codec for editing. Does Matrox offer a DV converter app to convert these clips to Microsoft DV? Then these clips could be edited in a new project.
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Actually, it’s looking now like something is wrong with the timeline.
I have limited Premiere 6.0 experience (I’m a Pro 2.0 user), but it looks like captured footage was divided into AVI and WAV files (which is standard from what I understand). However, a closer look at the timeline shows that both video AND audio are linking back to AVI files (not AVI and WAV).
I’m really stumped on how to solve this issue. I’ve tried several workarounds, including:
– Tried recombining the audio and video manually by copying each on the timeline, exporting the combined clip, and linking the media to that. (Which seems to work, but there are over 250 clips and the video seems a little distorted afterward… not sure why) This is a very slow, impractical method.
– Used WavAviMux, a program that’s supposed to combine audio and video, but I had mixed results with that as well.
– Thought about replacing all the clips on the timeline manually with the separate AVI and WAV files, copying the in and out points… but, again, that’d be incredibly time consuming.
Having the same issues in both Premiere 6.0 and Premiere Pro 2.0. Basically, it seems like the split audio/video files are the main cause of problems. If the raw clips were combined from the start, I would be able to relink them. I just don’t get why the timeline is trying to draw audio from the AVI files.
Thanks for any help
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I dont have experience with Matrox, but this sounds just like Canopus reference files. The “movie.avi” file has all the audio for the captured video plus it has info where the captured video is located…ie referencing the special files that contain the video. These special files are limited to 2 GB so there may be many. Changing the path to these files makes an incredible mess.
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I had a similar problem once and found an answer…
You may be helped by this, it takes matrox DV-AVI (which depends on the codec and the special hardware) and turns it into microsoft DV (which requires neither).
https://www.baobab.net/softcs.htm
–Shayne
–Shayne Weyker
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