[Aira Vehaskari]

Anyone have a solution to this problem? I’ve got a late 2009 model iMac and since I “upgraded” to mavericks two days ago, I cannot get Clip Browser to work or my sxs cards mounted. I’ve tried, I think, everything listed here. I uninstalled and re-installed the latest version of EX Clip Browser, I installed the SxS Driver update and the UDF driver as suggested (in that order), and the FAM driver and Driver tool for good measure, and nothing is working.

Either the Clip Browser does not show the SxS cards or it crashes immediately on launch. (I’ve read elsewhere that it will crash if the SxS cards are already connected to the computer. I don’t have a SxS card driver, I transfer them directly from my EX1r to my iMac via USB.

I checked there version of the drivers and it says 2.1.1d003 instead of 1.1.2. Am I looking at the right thing in the Extensions folder? There are four listings for SxSLogicalUnitDriver and they are all Version 2.1.1d003.

I’ve been struggling with this for two days. Has anyone else run across this problem?

[Aira Vehaskari]

It was on my computer’s hard drive.

Sorry about the late reply – as you might imagine I was in panic to reproduce the lost work when I realized I couldn’t find it. Still, it would be interesting to find out what happened, so that lightning doesn’t strike twice.

[Aira Vehaskari]

Hi Jon,

Point taken. I’ll find a workflow that works for the situations I have.

I can hear you scratching your head as to why on earth I would want an option to push changes out to imported sequences, so at the risk of beating a dead horse here I’ll fill you in:

I have separate projects that sometimes get combined into various combinations for clients. Let’s say they want 5 packages each built out of a diff combination of videos. Then the client decides that they want a specific change to one of the videos, which is in several packages. That’s the situation I’m in right now.

But I’m satisfied with re-importing and alt-draging to all of them, like Gleb said. I was just feeling lazy and wanted a button to do all the work for me. 🙂 Luckily this sort of thing doesn’t come up very often.

cheers,
Aira

[Aira Vehaskari]

as an interesting aside, I just noticed that when you import a pproj into another pproj, the pop-up window does say “connecting to dynamic link server”. I wonder.

Thanks for all your help, Gleb. I would indeed have done all the bits and pieces as different sequences of the same project if it had been possible. ah well, i’ll just stop being lazy and re-load the sequences.

thanks!

[Aira Vehaskari]

Hi Gleb,

You’re right, it came to me after I already posted (face-palm moment) 🙂

But out of curiosity I’d still be interested to know if there were some way to do it on a more complicated compilation project. There doesn’t seem to be a reason why sequences couldn’t update themselves in other pproj like they do if you import the seq to another adobe program.

just curious, because it could be really useful.

cheers
a

[Aira Vehaskari]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the links!

I hope I’ve identified the problem and if this is so, I’m slapping myself on the forehead for hours of needless anguish. I’ve used Vegas and CS4, and what I was working on was the CS5 trial (not available in full where I live yet). After I slept on it, I thought that maybe the trial version does not support all formats?

I did a quick google search but couldn’t find the answer. Do you happen to know if this is true?

I do appreciate your advice, thanks!

[Aira Vehaskari]

Hi Craig,

As I said “i know NOW that copy/paste” is not the way to go. I can’t undo that and I was hoping to get past that and actually solve the issue.

But thanks for the suggestion to try and import mp4 native; it turned up the same way: audio and no video. Makes me think there is something off in my Premiere import, but I can’t figure it out.

[Aira Vehaskari]

aha – I realized that my automation settings had automation off. I set it back to the default “automation write” setting (though I don’t know exactly what that means), and the volume control works now.

I thought I had to have the automation off if I wanted to make manual adjustments, but this is clearly not the case.

I’ll just go re-read the manual a bit now, shall I? 🙂

But I do have another un-related question about audio levels. I’m producing short docs for national digital broadcast tv, and I’m adjusting the “speak” and b-roll volumes by ear. Is there a standard or useful guideline for what dB they should be set at? And is there anyway to minimize background buzz? I have an interview where either there was an air conditioner in the background or the radio mic was picking up some whine.

again, thanks for this very useful forum! Perhaps someday I could actually contribute something useful to it.

cheers,
aira

[Aira Vehaskari]

I’m stumped too. I’ve checked that it’s a volume envelope – when I raise and lower the line it even says at what dB the volume is. The strange thing is that I got it to work fine on my other tracks. The line is a different colour on this track, it’s a darker blue, does that indicate anything about it?

[Aira Vehaskari]

Hi!

I’m also trying to adjust the volume within a clip, but even though I’ve put in the anchor points and can adjust the line, the volume does not appear to change. No matter how high or low I drag the line, the volume is the same. What am I missing?

thanks,
a