[David Dean]

Okay, let me give you another example, beyond the volume of a clip, which I now know I can manually raise by using the gain controls. Here’s a b-roll clip that I’ve double-clicked into the source monitor. I know that there are four audio tracks on this, but I want to isolate one track of it before cutting it into the timeline.

Now, when I click on the “Audio Clip Mixer” tab for this specific clip, I want to be able to tell from the VU meters which track I want to cut in. But again, clicking on that tab brings me to the audio of the active timeline and NOT the clip in the source monitor. The name on the tab is even the name of the clip, not the name of the timeline. (A1 is dimmed because I put VO on that track of my timeline and I’ve locked it, which also proves that I am not looking at the clip’s audio, because I know there’s sound on its A1.)

This seems so simple, and yet I can’t figure out how to make the audio meters of the selected clip show up. Thanks, everyone…

[David Dean]

Every time I hit “G,” even with the clip selected, it brings up the Essential Graphics panel. I right-clicked on the clip in the browser and it did allow me to access the gain controls, but shouldn’t I be able to hear the increase in volume using a slider rather than having to keep changing a gain number multiple times until it gets to what I want?

Thanks for the quick response!

[David Dean]

Thanks, Paul – you posted just as I was writing my followup response, which appears to have opened it as 12.1.0. The question I have about your suggestion – which was echoed in the Adobe forum as well – is, how do you downgrade to an earlier version of the same update? I could easily revert to version 11 from 2017, but how can you go back to yesterday’s 12.0.1 from today’s 12.1? I don’t see an option for that in the “Installed Apps” panel. Thanks!

David

[David Dean]

I also checked the Adobe forums – this problem is happening all over the place, including the upgrade to Media Encoder. Here’s a reply from one JohnnyG2000 (giving proper credit), and it worked for me:

Okay, here are the exact steps I took (on a Mac):

Install the latest version of Premiere [which you will already have done0
In your Finder, go up to the Go menu
Click “Go To Folder”
Type “~/Library” and click Go.
Go to …Library/Caches/Adobe/Premiere Pro/12.0
Delete the “Typesupport” folder
Open up Premiere Pro.

Hopefully this will help. Worked great over here. ☺

And it did. Word of advice: DON’T UPGRADE TO 12.1 YET.

[David Dean]

Holy crow, that’s GREAT! I would never, ever, ever have known that! Thank you so much, Jamie!

David

[David Dean]

That did it, Ann – thank you! I have no idea how that got activated, but now I know how to correct it.

Enjoy your week…
David

[David Dean]

Thanks, Joe – such a convoluted process for what would seem to be a simple effect! And it’s music, so there is no video to have it linked to. As it happens, I was able to go onto someone else’s computer who had Audition, imported the twelve frames of music I wanted to effect, and then found a “turntable slow down” preset. Once that had been exported as a 12-frame aiff, I just attached it to the full-speed music clip. Just what I wanted!

But jeez loueez… thanks again for your reply and suggestion!

[David Dean]

Thanks once again, Bouke. I am trying to figure out the DF/NDF issue between the projects in both systems. I am cutting in Premiere because I haven’t edited a project in Avid in five years and I am more comfortable with PP at this point.

I am confused by your statement that 23.98 fps does not exist, however. I’ve read a great many comments in other forums about my problem before I posted it here, and here’s something directly from the Avid website:

I will continue to work on a solution. Thanks.

D.

[David Dean]

Thank you, Bouke – this is getting more mysterious. The original Avid project, which I did not originate, appears to be 23.98, NOT 23.976. The project even has “2398” in its NAME. Here are the properties of the sequence:

And here’s a representative low-rez shot from the Avid timeline – you can see that the fps is 23.98.

Now I’m in Premiere, where I don’t seem to be able to create a 23.98 sequence using any preset, and here is the same shot at full resolution. This is imported directly from the finder, and the timecode is 23.976.

Notice that there are no dropframe semicolons on any clip. Also notice that the first frame of the timecode in both clips is the same, 15:43:53;14. I can tell you that the end timecodes and durations match as well. The Premiere sequence is 23.976 – again, I don’t see an option to create a 23.98 version, and ultimately it’s all going to be modified to 29.97 for broadcast (the post house will deal with that). And yet, here’s the identical frame, from late in the clip – the directly-imported full-rez on the left, the migrated low-rez on the right. And the timecodes don’t match.

Does this make any sense to anybody? I really, really don’t want to have to eyematch all the shots in this show to get them to the full HD version if the timecodes aren’t going to match. Thank you all for your patience…

David

[David Dean]

Hi, Jamie – thanks for responding so quickly. Nothing changed when I attempted your suggestion – I created a brand-new project and set the timebase preference to 23.976 (which has been consistent throughout all the versions), and then tried two things: opening the sequence from the other project, and re-importing the AAF that I created from the Avid. In all cases the timecode of the full-rez MXF file did not match the TC of the low-rez version, and the numbers of the matched frames were the same difference as the screenshot I posted (in other words, they were still 50 seconds apart).

So darn. Still stuck. And truly grateful for the suggestion.

David