[Mike Kirsch]

Garrett – bummer to hear that it’s happening to you in 6.0.2. That’s the update that fixed it for me. Sooo… it must be related to something else. I’m not working on a multicam project right now but I’ll definitely take a look again next time it comes up.

[Mike Kirsch]

Great news… This issue has been fixed in Premiere 6.0.2.

[Mike Kirsch]

SOLVED!!

It appears to be a bug. I loaded another multicam clip into the source panel and the audio worked perfectly. A few minutes later, the audio was suddenly gone. I traced my steps and figured out that adding an IN point to the source panel makes the audio go away (or in some cases the audio remains, but appears to be out of sync). Adding just an OUT point does not have the same effect, but adding the IN point makes the multicam clip go silent on playback.

I’d be interested to see if anyone else can replicate the issue. Here’s how I did it:

Premiere Pro CS6 v6.0.0 on Mac OSX 10.8
1) New project
2) Create a multicam sequence with 2 angles
3) Right click the multicam sequence in the project panel and choose “open in source monitor”
4) Play source monitor to confirm that audio works.
5) Add an IN point to the source monitor
6) Play source monitor to confirm that audio has dropped out entirely, or has gone out of sync.
7) Remove IN point, and play again to confirm clip is back to normal.

I’ll submit this as a bug report, but would love to know if anyone else has the same result.

Thanks!

[Mike Kirsch]

Axel – I suppose that’s one way to do it, but I’m coming from the POV of wanting to be able to edit using insert/overwrite techniques like I used to using for general editing, rather than switching to a copy/paste paradigm. Good input, though. Thanks.

The clip plays fine in the source window, just without audio, so it seems like there might be either a setting or a bug in play here.

To that end… I did discover something new… when I right click on the source window (in the video part, NOT the wing menu), there is an option at the top of the contextual menu for multicam, with options to enable/disable or choose an angle. I selected diable, then enable. The source window now only shows one angle of my multicam clip WITH audio and lets me insert/overwrite edit as expected, at which point I can use the multicam edit panel to switch cameras and refine the edit.

BUT… now I can’t get back to seeing multiple angles in the source panel.

SO… there seems to be a workaround, but it doesn’t work as expected.

[Mike Kirsch]

I never imported the “Party Menu HD” into this project. I did import one of the other stock menus (don’t remember which one) but immediately hashed it up in Photoshop to create what is now my menu template for the project.

The plot thickens… I did some more work on the disc and finally got it to the point where I was ready to burn a disc. Clicked “build” and got a new error message: “That menu is corrupt, please delete it from the project”. It didn’t actually specify the Party HD menu Of course, I still couldn’t delete it.

So I quit Encore and restarted. When the project finally opened, I got another message that said “Encore could not find Party Menu HD so I replaced it with another placeholder menu” (It was a long error message – I’m paraphrasing)

I clicked “build” again and now I am about 20 minutes into the process. When I got this far last night, it ended up working, so I think I will have a successful build this time. Very strange.

Also… Encore currently says it is “building transitions”, but I don’t have any menu-to-menu transitions in the project. Does anyone know what this means?

[Mike Kirsch]

Are you creating a single or dual layer disc? SINGLE LAYER

How big is your project? Big – 4.44GB (and it may get a touch bigger)

What is your menu structure? Do you have a main menu, scene selection menu, etc.? My menu tree goes 4 or 5 menus deep – it’s a complicated project with many links. It’s my demo reel, so I go from the main menu to a “categories” menu. From there I go to “clips” menus, where you can choose individual spots I’ve done and then you finally get to a “clip detail” menu that has specific info about the clips. You can then watch each clip. There’s also a link from the main menu to watch my reel or see contact info.

Have you set any menu user operations? Nothing special. All ops permitted.

Here’s the strange thing – I was actually able to burn a disc last night!

Encore CS3 is extremely slow and buggy with a project of this complexity and size. I actually started building it on a PC with Vista and had to move over to a mac b/c I wasn’t making any progress between crashes.

After doing some more googling I found something about “Party Menu HD” in several posts on this and other forums. Sure enough, my project has a rogue Party Menu HD that can’t be opened, viewed or deleted. What I did was to select the menu buttons for that menu in the Menus tab and delete them.

I tried to build the project again. As before, I got the SWOD, but I just walked away instead of force quitting. 20 minutes later, it started transcoding, building transitions and making the disc. I’m not sure how long it took, but when I got into the office this morning, the disc had burned and was ready to go.

So there seems to be something to this “Party Menu HD” bug that has gotten some chatter over the past couple of months. The rogue menu is still in my project, but at least I was able to burn a working disc.

If anyone else has had to troubleshoot this problem I’d love to hear what your solutions were.