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Sequence stalls on single frame
Five minutes into my edited sequence the video stops on one frame, though it continues to play through the full forty minute time duration of imported material. The imported video runs through a full forty minutes exactly as it was recorded within the monitoring window. The problem frame location corresponds to the beginning of a second video segment that is missing an audio waveform for some reason. The missing audio is a non-issue for this particular sequence though it not being there is probably more than coincidental with the problem of the single image sequence problem I’m having. The video is definitely there. What do I need to do to sequence this video segment?
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Welcome Michael – A lot of times, there a are issues of this sort in premiere with using non-editing formats, such as MPEG or AVIs or MOVs utilizing non-editing CODECs.
If you get a chance, fill out your System Details in your profile.
Are you using DV footage, MPEG, or something else? If it’s an option, and you have the hard disk space, usually decompressing the audio and video before import will prevent a good number of problems.Vince
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Thank you for taking the time to respond to my questions Vince. It is appreciated. I noticed that you’ve helped a lot of people with your background of video editing knowledge. I have filled out system details in my profile as you suggested. The footage I am having difficulty with is indeed an .avi file. I have two files totalling about one hour of video at just over 20 Gigs of raw data. Far too large a file size to be storing them. I was hoping to compress this footage to a smaller file size format with Premier. Is there something I should do before importing? I have full intentions of taking a Premier course as soon as I can that I might better utilize my editing time but for now I am in need of a way to convert these large .avi files down to something smaller, while maintaining video quality. Thanks again for your help.
Michael,
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Recapture? If you capture with Premiere, I’d consider using the automatic scene detect feature, or manually clipping the scenes as you capture, so you have smaller files to work with.
To the goal of compressing the video…
If the files are DV or HD you probably shouldn’t compress them for storage as these are ideal editing formats. You could compress to MPEG, and later edit MPEG in Premiere, but it’s not easy to use.However, you still have the frame error issue. My solution for dealing with parsing or rendering issues in Premiere is to decompress the source files prior to import.
For this I use AVS Video Converter…
https://www.avsmedia.com/VideoTools/index.aspx
AVS is great at dealing with errors and also has batching & splitting functions which you might benefit you in this mission.
You could drop your files into AVS and set it to export as MPEG2 (or a high bitrate WMV format), and batch split into 2GB files. Done.If you simply want to compress the file for later use, at the highest possible quality, I’d recommend Bink. It’s free and it has the best compression, but it may also have an issue with the frame error.
https://www.radgametools.com/Vince
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Thank you once again Vince. Your advice is clear and to the point. I will go and get the AVS video converter as you suggested. When computers are involved, things never seem to work the way they’re supposed to the first time around, but I do understand the value of persistence. Things are always much easier the second time around. Thanks again…
Michael,
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