[Jon Barrie]

I’ve tried to replicate your problem but it seems to work fine. What are the setup specs you have used (PAL/NTSC preset info).
I have a feeling the project may have become corrupt and not part of a bug. Try these couple of things.
1. Fix your project. Do a Save As then try to open that one.
2. Start a new project with the same preset settings and import the original project. Then import the Save As version and see if either import properly.
3. Worst case… start a new project bring everything in again and rename the bins something different. Add a 0 in there? I’ve not been able to replicate the issue and I tried to make it the same as your description.
– Jon

[Jon Barrie]

Audition has an auto find beats markers that you can export and import into premiere pro.
– Jon Barrie

[Jon Barrie]

Moving the video and the audio following and vice versa is not a QT issue. The video and audio are linked. If you right click the clip in the timeline and select unlink you can move the video and audio separately. Or you could hold the alt key while you select the audio or video which will select them as separate items. If you capture footage in avi or mov or even mpeg it would be linked.
– Jon Barrie 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

What codec are you using in the QT wrapper?
PlanarRGB should be an uncompressed alternative.
Make sure you set the compressor as well as the video type.
– Jon Barrie 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

Give this a go.
1. Dedicate an Audio layer for the AE comps. Target that track when you dump it in.
2. Using the Audio Mixer Rename the layer to AE audio and set that lower than the other tracks.
3. This will force any audio inside that layer to be ‘X’dB lower to prevent your loudness level.

I work this way quite a bit and haven’t found that issue (cs2 and cs3) maybe your audio drivers are causing issues?

Hope this is a fast way to help your multiple audio problem. I’m guessing the loudness is consistent so the amount you lower that layer should affect all AE audio clips the same.

– Jon Barrie 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

It is a manual thing, but this is probably the quickest way to do it.
1. Capture the whole tape if you like.
2. Watch the whole clip in ffwd to scan when your hand covers the lens.
4. Marker the spots with the asterix/marker key while playing in ffwd (L twice or more to go faster). Do that for the whole capture.
5. Snap back to the first marker (home key, shift+ctl+right arrow to snap fwd/left arrow to snap back)
6. Set an in and out point for the ‘play’ clip. (allow some handles either side)
7. Make a subclip (right click the clip or drag it to the project panel)
8. Name the subclip as the ‘play’ and maybe a number
9. Move on to the next marker, in out make subclip etc.

When you’re done and you know you don’t need the main clip anymore. delete it. the subclips will remain. Continue to edit.

As far as setting the clips poster frame:
1. Select the clip
2. Scan through the small timeline above it in the top left of the project panel.
3. Hit the camera icon above the play button.

That’s your new poster frame. it will show up as your frame in icon mode too.

Hope this helps.

– Jon Barrie (moo)

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Bill,
Sorry I haven’t got version 2 on hand today, only CS3 I’m sure they have the same function tho. When you open the title before you change the text go to Title> New Title> based on current or something to that effect. You need to save a new one and name it with the new text your adding to it so it is referencing its own separate title. Another thing you could do is make a PSD file with the location for the text, bring in the PSD as a sequence, make a new title for that over the position with the same font then add that to the sequence switching off the PSD text layer with the eye for that video layer.
– Jon 🙂
PS: Come to think of it I think you need to save as or export title. There is a way I used to do it all the time.

[Jon Barrie]

m1v is mpeg 1 video only. there is no audio signal inside it. mepeg 1 is VCD quality, not very good. m2v is mpeg 2 DVD video quality without audio. Mpeg or mpg is a muxed video and audio file. It could be mpeg1 or mpeg2 depending on the coded properties. the mpg is a wrapper extension. How are you importing/capturing the video or exporting it? the m1v m2v mpeg mpg situation can be found and changed somewhere in this process.
– Jon

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Gustav,
Did you just recapture the footage or did you ask premiere to batch capture the footage? If you recapture them using batch capture your timecode would reconnect everything back in its edited positions. If the timecode has been broken, then you are facing an uphill battle. The Tape name for each tape you captured needs to be correct too. You can name that info with the clips still offline and then batch capture. Linking indicates you captured it seperately and then tried to reconnect it. That’s going to take a long time. Try batch capturing the clip/s. Good Luck.
– Jon 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

You can tell if a clip is PAL or NTSC by either the frame size or the frames per second rate. PAL = 720×576 @ 25fps, NTSC = 720×486 or 720×480 @ 29.97fps. I’m sure you have PowerDVD or Media Player which will give you the above info. PowerDVD you go to configuration> Information tab. It’s in there. Windows Media Player start the DVD in WMP then right click on one of the titles> properties. It will have the frame size in there.
– Jon