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Project Manager in CS6 won’t trim clips
Hey all,
I recently finished editing an hour-long live concert and I need to archive it. However, Premiere CS6 (version 6.0.2, running on Mac 10.6.8) won’t trim all of the clips.
I have three angles, all of which are DVCPRO HD 1080i60, 29.97fps. One angle is the primary, and on rare occasion I cut to the other two angles. The raw footage of those three angles add up to 250GB. However, when I select Project Manager for just final the sequence and choose Create New Trimmed Project, the archived file size comes out to 350GB. It trims only about half of the secondary angles, leaving the rest as full-length clips.
I used to run into this problem in Final Cut Pro 7 and it usually had to do with long clips not having a reel number assigned, but changing that didn’t help in Premiere. Also an interesting note, when I select Project Manager for the “trimmed” project, it now estimates a file size of 70GB. So there’s something in the original files that isn’t reading correctly in Premiere.
Any ideas?
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Did you go to Edit > Remove unused before using the project manager? For other really technical reasons, I’ve found that this command does a lot of behind-the-scenes housekeeping to the structure of the Premiere project file.
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I didn’t use any other assets besides the three angles, so the Remove Unused Footage was grayed out. For good measure, I threw a few random clips in and then selected Remove, but it didn’t change anything.
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Anyone have ideas for this?
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Hiya…
Did you cut manually or use Multicam?
If you used multicam, then your multicam edit is dependent on the full length of the source clips in the Multicam source sequence.
Thus….there is no media to trim. All original source is required to archive the project.
The thing about multicam in PPro, is that its a visual cut referring to the nested sequence, and not a direct reference to the clips in the Project panel.
Alex Udell
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The concert was cut manually. That’s an interesting note about the multicam, though. It’s a shame there isn’t a way to collapse the multicam and just archive the active angles.
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Ok….If it’s still not trimming and you cut it manually….
this may indicate that it doesn’t think that it’s a codec structure that it can consolidate for some reason.
I don’t know why it would think that about DVCProHD.
that’s not GOP structured media….
hmmm….
Alex Udell
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Out of curiosity…
You don’t by chance have more than 1 instance of an angle imported into your project panel that you may have cut with?
If this is true…then PPro will likely think of those as 2 separate media files when doing the archive…thus possibly duplicating media unnecessarily…
just trying to think of anything that might contribute to this….
Alex Udell
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No, I just had the three angles and the individual song mixes in the project.
An interesting note is that I had Premiere media manage the project (all 350GB), and then I opened the media managed project and managed that project—and then it trimmed files correctly. So I guess there must have been something in the original footage that didn’t read right? Final Cut Pro 7 used to have a problem like that, where the footage had to have reels assigned.
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I’m having the exact same problem you are. When I told Premiere to trim the project, it simply copied all of the original files over. However when I opened up that project and told it to trim everything again it actually trimmed the clips. The first time I copied all of the files over it was around 200 GB and the second time it whittled everything down to 20 GB, which is much more manageable and I can back them up to BD. Most of the files are in ProRes LT, btw.
So the probable isn’t unique to you. Does anyone else have any ideas, or does this need to go to Adobe?
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I’m having the same issue with H264 video.
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