[Brett Nelson]

Marisu,
Yes, this is a good idea. I was happy with this option until I realized that if I copy and paste a new sequence, then go and undo to fix my old sequence, it undoes my new copied and pasted sequence. Does this sound confusing? I’m sure you understand.

One big help on this Undo issue for me would simply be to allow a Save Sequence As or allow Copy and Paste to be exempt from Undo. Not that Adobe is asking me…

Thanks!

Brett

[Brett Nelson]

Dave,
Yes, edit* was had to beat on this. History isn’t really that helpful when it has multiple versions of “Trim” (or whatever action) and not have a clue which sequence or point on the timeline.

I’m still figuring out the best combination of saving/backing up. With edit*, I would also Save As timelines as I made significant changes, which allowed going back when a tweaked new version wasn’t going where I wanted. The only parallel in PPro is to save multiple versions of the project, but then the History is lost.

Thanks!

Brett

[Brett Nelson]

I tried that. No luck. Any other thoughts? Thanks!

Brett

[Brett Nelson]

Thanks for the responses!

Why I’m wanting to do this is working with a team that is half on FCP and half on Premiere Pro.

Brett

[Brett Nelson]

Willie,
That’s a good suggestion. However, I’m not sure exactly where the audio starts to go out of sync, and whether it’s exactly proportional from start to finish. Also, it’s 4 hours of material, which would be a major hassle to manually sync.

I ended up doing the edit in Vegas. I used the clips that I captured in PPro, brought them into Vegas and they are perfectly in sync. Strange. I haven’t tried the PPro 2.0 demo to see if that fixes it. I’d still like to know why I had this problem with these clips when I didn’t with other hour long clips I’m cutting in PPro.

Thanks again for all the feedback!

Brett

[Brett Nelson]

Mike,
Good suggestion, but I think I only dropped 1 frame on one of three tapes and that was only a 10 minute tape. These are all good ideas. Do Ron and Kathlyn give out a Cow mug or something if the wiser minds of the forum don’t prevail?

This problem is an example of the curse of software-based NLEs. They’re great because you can run them on almost anything, and they’re terrible for the same reason…because there may be a couple dozen possible causes of the problem.

Thanks for the input!

Brett

[Brett Nelson]

Thanks, but still no. It’s strange because I have about 14 hours of footage in another project all captured as hour-long clips and they play fine. I tried importing one of out-of-sync clips into that project and dropping it into one of those sequences. That didn’t do it.

Brett

[Brett Nelson]

Well, defrag isn’t it, or at least isn’t all of it. I did a defrag and have the same problem with no change. I’ve tried the same clip running on an external Firewire drive, tried creating a 48k and 44.1k AIF and using those instead, and I tried importing the clip into a 44.1 project…all with no luck.

Brett

[Brett Nelson]

No. Does this sound like it could be fragmentation? I am running with a 300GB drive…actually 2 ATA IDE 7200 drives that are striped. There is only 20% free space. I am doing a defragment now, but of course it’s very slow with such a big drive.

I’m running this on a dual 2.4gHz Supermicro with 1GB of RAM…PPro 1.5, WinXP Pro SP2.

Brett

[Brett Nelson]

I shot on a Canon XL1 and captured from a Sony DSR30.