[Bruce Liddil]

Hi Ben,

Sorry it has taken so long for me to reply. I’ve been out of town.

We never did solve this problem. Our programmers think that Premiere Pro CS3 doesn’t like our codec (developed in house).

Premiere Pro 1.5 doesn’t have a problem, so we switched back to that. 🙁 Not the greatest solution, but gets the job done for us.

I’m sorry I don’t have a better answer for you. If I find further information or a solution, I’ll let you know.

Good luck!

Bruce

[Bruce Liddil]

Hi Mike,

For a lot of reasons, we need to use the video capture utility developed in-house. We are doing scientific research in the area of human factors of flight systems that requires requires a lot of custom built systems to interact. Also, we need to turn around long movies (30 to 60 minutes) fairly quickly. Because of that, Microsoft or Camtasia’s product aren’t an option. Actually, we used My Screen Recorder in the prototype stage, but we needed to write our own capture utility to get the functionality we needed. At this point we’re looking at buying more licenses of PP1.5, since we know it works. Might be easier than trying to figure this out!

Thanks,
Bruce

[Bruce Liddil]

Mike,

The video files were captured with a capture utility created in-house by one of our programmers. I’m wondering if there is something about how his program is written that is friendly with PP1.5, but not PPCS3. The programmer is looking in to this. I think the question is: what is different between PP1.5 and PPCS3 in terms of how it handles these video files?

Thanks,

Bruce

[Bruce Liddil]

Mike,

When I open a project with this .avi in it, created in 1.5, using the 1.5 application, I see the whole 36 minutes. When I open the SAME project (created in 1.5) using CS3, the whole clip shows in the sequence, but is greyed out after 31 seconds.

Another clip with identical properties and of similar length behaves the same way.

Premiere Pro 1.5 handles the clips fine on 2 very different PCs.
Premiere Pro CS3 cuts the clips off exactly the way on both PCs.

Thanks,

Bruce

[Bruce Liddil]

Hi Mike,

GSpot says:

size:767 MB
File Length Correct
Open DML (AVI V2.0)
Video 697 MB (90.78%)
Audio 66.5 MB (8.66%)
AVI Overhead: 4.30 MB (0.56%)
Codec: WMV3 Name:WMPv9 (VC-1 simple/main)
Len 23:01.25 Frms 13,829
Kbps 4232 Qf 0.323
Pic/s 10.009 Frames/s 10.009
Pic 1280/1024
sar 1.25 (5:4) par 1.00 (1:1)
dar 1.25 (5:4)

Audio Codec:PCM Audio
Info 8000 Hz 256Kb/s tot (2 chnls)

Thanks,

Bruce

[Bruce Liddil]

Mike,

I changed the extension to .wmv.

When I tried to import it, PPCS3 said it was an invalid file type. Changed the extension back to .avi and PPCS3 imported it, but again, cut off most of the length.

Tried opening it in Windows Media File Editor. It said it was an invalid file type.

Thanks,

Bruce

[Bruce Liddil]

Mike,

I’m importing the video file to PPCS3. . .
the same file that imports fine into PP1.5.

Thanks,

Bruce

[Bruce Liddil]

WMV3, better known as Windows Media Video 9 codec.
It is a screen capture movie created with My Screen Recorder.
It imports fine into Premiere Pro 1.5. The problem only happens when importing into Premiere Pro CS3. We purchased several licenses of CS3 (can’t get 1.5 anymore) for this purpose, so I’ve got to figure out how to make this work with CS3.

Thanks,

Bruce

[Bruce Liddil]

Lots of good input here.

Thanks!

Bruce