Charles Westfall
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I have the same problem with Premiere CS5 crashing after a certain amount of quicktime clips are in the project. This seems to be a Adobe issue with quicktime files. How embarrassing for Adobe. How long has this program been out and they still haven’t fixed this problem?
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Okay Vince, I now realize that you were responding to someone else. I will not do what you suggested when I get CS4. I know you were trying to help someone that had stopped audio conforming and needed to get it back.
Charlie Westfall -
Thanks Vince. I’ll see if it works after I get CS4. I’m still waiting for AJA to fix their NTSC bug with CS4 before I buy their capture card.
Charlie Westfall -
First off, I really appreciate your support Vince. My system has Core 2 Quad 3 Ghz and 2.4 Ghz with 8 gigs of RAM and 64 bit. Again because I am using CS3 until AJA fixes the NTSC issue with CS4 (they have a BETA version and the fix will be available in 3 weeks), I am not able to take advantage of the 64 bit system. After reading your last response, it gives me hope that the 64 bit system with CS4 makes a huge difference, but it also makes me wonder if SCSI drives make that much of a difference. I am using 7200 RPM 1 TB SATA drives (they are plenty fast for DVCPro HD) so I have much more storage. Also, I am wondering if capturing video instead of importing video to the project has anything to do with the conforming speed. It seems I’ll just have to wait until I update to CS4 and the LHI card to find out how fast the conforming will work. I’ll keep you updated when that happens. Again, thank you for your help.
Charlie Westfall -
Yes, I tried AVI and it didn’t need audio conforming but that is because the video is uncompressed and so was the audio. Adobe accepts uncompressed audio as long as it is the same format as theirs. I noticed in windows explorer that the audio files were separate wave files. It’s too bad Adobe can’t treat the compressed audio files that way. Regarding the audio conforming speed, I had the guys at AJA do a test with their system, and a 1 1/2 minute take took 5 seconds to conform. That, I can deal with, but when we do a 20 minute take on the set, the conforming would then be over 1 minute. A director isn’t willing to wait more than 5 ten seconds for anything. Is your CS4 on a 64 bit system or a 32 bit system? If it is a 64 bit system, could you do a test with HD video and audio? Maybe record 2 minutes of video and see how long it takes to conform the audio. That would be a awesome test. Thanks again for your help.
Charlie Westfall -
Right now I am using CS3 but I am planning on updating to CS4 as soon as AJA fixes a NTSC bug that they have with their Xena LHI cards. I am currently using the AJA LHE card and I am recording NTSC and HD in the AJA quicktime files. It’s funny that you say Final Cut also does conforming because the guys at AJA did a test with their system and they told me that it didn’t conform after recording.
I am using this system to record from the BNC outputs of film and video cameras whether it is NTSC or HD-SDI. I know that Adobe conforms all compressed audio to match their audio format so that all the audio is one type of format with the same quality. My problem is that I use this system on the movie sets and if a director ask me to play back a section of the last clip that hasn’t been conformed, there will be no audio and there will be a angry director. According to Adobes’ website, CS4 with Windows Vista 64bit is much faster so I’m hoping that makes audio conforming much faster, but until then, why not have the option of conforming the audio after you place the clip into the timeline? It would take minimal time for a piece of the clip and take up less hard drive space as well. Anyway Vince, thanks for the phone number, I’ll give it a shot.
Charlie Westfall -
Thanks Vince. I appreciate your help.
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We were recording a Red camera. 1280×720, AJA quicktime format, DVCPro HD to save hard drive space. I am using Windows Vista 64 bit. I was told by the tech at Adobe today that CS3 was never intended for Windows Vista. Supposedly CS4 is much faster with Vista. That may be part of the problem if not all of the problem.
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That is what I do now, but it doesn’t help me when a director is angry because he can’t hear the audio when he wants it. Is there any way to prevent conformation from happening? The techs at adobe told me that if the settings are the same during capture as the settings are in the project settings, it shouldn’t have to conform the file. I am using a AJA Xena LHE card with Premiere so maybe there is no way to keep the settings the same. Basically, no one at Adobe had an answer. If I record a twenty minute clip in HD, conforming takes about five minutes. The director on the set is not going to wait for that to happen. That’s my dilemma. Thanks.
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I believe I fixed the problem. It seems that it was one scene that had the problem. I deleted the audio for that scene and reinstalled it, and it worked. I also noticed that it lost 3 frames on the timeline at one point. That was strange. The frame count ended at 29 frames and the next started at 3 frames. Frames 30, 1 and 2 were missing. Somehow, Premiere played it fine in the timeline, but quicktime and Windows Media player couldn’t handle it. I just shifted the whole group of shots past that point in the timeline and exported it again, and it worked. Thanks for the response.