[Jon Doughtie]

It’s ok Suzin, engineers love to change things. . .

You may have trouble with bringing in your audio because (as an example) you might be trying to bring mono audio into a stereo track, or perhaps the reverse.

You may need to create a new stereo track for stereo audio, or a new mono track for mono audio. Or try this (I haven’t done it, just an idea) – Vertically enlarge the timeline so you have some empty space in the audio section and pull your audio to the black space. See if it automatically creates the correct track for it and drops it in.

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[Jon Doughtie]

When a clip gets altered, for example, with a speed change to speed it up, and then gets replaced in the timeline, that can happen. The timeline is telling you the space the clips is taking up on the timeline is longer than the clip itself.

Usually, if a speed change is done within the timeline (in Premiere Pro), the clip auto-corrects itself in current versions. But I haven’t looked at CS6 in a long time.

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[Jon Doughtie]

Hmm. Just as an experiment, have you tried transcoding the footage to an essentially lossless codec and tried working with that? Like one of DNxHD codecs or something along those lines.

Curious if getting it out of that highly compressed codec would relieve the pain. Even with your system, that is a LOT of work for the CPU to decompress.

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[Jon Doughtie]

If you shot with the iPhone-included camera, that’s the issue. It records variable frame rate. No edit app really likes it.

One immediate solution to fix your current issue: download Handbrake (https://handbrake.fr/) and convert the footage to a constand frame rate MP4 file. Then it will behave in your edit timeline.

For the future: look in the app store for a camera app that records constant frame rate, and it will not bite you again.

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[Jon Doughtie]

What container/codec files does the Mavic 2 produce?

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[Jon Doughtie]

I usually create my timeline based on what I want the final deliverable to be. If multiple deliverables, I start with the highest resolution and work from there.

If I have a deliverable that is say, 1080 and I have 4K footage, I set the timeline for 1080, drop in my 4K footage and “Set to Frame Size” (NOT “Scale to Frame Size”.)

I always transfer a full copy of the media with all folder structures. It is the first step in the backup process. I keep XML files for the same reasons.

If you are mixing resolutions and frame rates, and make multiple deliverables, expect to do some work on the different timeline versions.

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[Jon Doughtie]

What version of the Adobe software are you running?

Win or Mac?

Any changes/installs on the system at the time “queue” stopped working?

Is “queue” gray-out/unavailable, or does clicking it simply do nothing?

If you manually launch Media Encoder first, does “queue” work then?

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[Jon Doughtie]

What Pat said. Your desired deliverable is what drives this decision.

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[Jon Doughtie]

It is neither an issue or bug. It is perfectly normal behavior. There isn’t a computer out there I know of running edit software that would not require some re-rendering under the described circumstances.

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[Jon Doughtie]

1920×1080 29.97 is 1080i, an interlaced format. You will get interlace artifacts. Motion blur in the AE render may make the end result appear more smooth in PPro, though.

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.