Peter Malof
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Update… I tried burning a disk, even though every track in the CD list was off by two seconds. The disk plays fine. So I don’t know if I’ve got a bug, or if I just don’t understand something about why the track list is offset. FYI, I tried renaming files, rebooting, every setting I could think of, adding several seconds of leader time at the start of the WAV file — but still the CD track list stubbornly shows the first track starting 2 seconds in.
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Thanks Andrew. I haven’t had time to try this until today. Blackmagic seemed to install okay, but, alas, the clip still is blank white in both Premiere Pro and Quicktime Pro, even after rebooting. If you or anyone else has other ideas I’d love to hear them! (I’m not supposed to do anything to get QT or Premiere to recognize the new codecs, am I?) THANKS, Pete
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Interesting. Sorry I can’t answer your questions. But can you tell me where to get this codec? And are there any special installation tricks to get Premiere to recognize it?
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Thanks Jon. I may not be able to coax him into re-exporting, since he seems convinced it’s a good file (and it’s big). Browsing elsewhere I see others with similar problems (particularly HD QT) who say you need Final Cut installed to play the file if it was created with Final Cut. That makes me think maybe it needs a proprietary codec or something. But I’ve sent the filmmaker your suggestion; maybe it’ll work… Peter
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That did it. I don’t know what was going on, but thanks a bunch, Marc. The interpret footage approach has solved past problems for me as well. I’ll have to remember it in the future. Kind of like re-booting maybe. Pete
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I returned to a large project I’d set aside for awhile to find that hundreds of audio clips had been blanked out. The “interpret footage” solution does not work for clips unassociated with video, but I found clicking on “file info” brings the waveforms back. I just wish: a) there was a way to get all my audio back at once, and b) that I knew why this happens so I can avoid it in future! What a pain.
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Plus it doesn’t always work. In my case I deleted all previews, caches, etc, unlinked, re-linked, re-booted, moved preview folders, etc. I’d dealt with this before and always wound up deleting the clips and re-dropping them into the timeline — a pain when you’ve spent time editing them. The “interpret footage” solution filled in all the instances from the problem file. BTW, I skipped the “conform to” step. Just opened “interpret footage” and hit okay. All clips immediately restored. Pete
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Wow, videa1, I’ve been trying everything, and your strange solution was the only thing that worked. Quick and easy. Thanks. Pete
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Thanks George. A little update because this “file exists” error was tough to deal with. Closing the program didn’t work. Rebooting didn’t work. Finally my solution was to delete the motion backgrounds I’d been using. This caused a new error, which, apparently is an Encore bug: “0x00000020 — file being used by another process.” So I renamed the project (which, I guess, rebuilds it) and then was finally able to burn a successful DVD. I didn’t have to turn my menus into templates and re-link everything; just renaming the project worked for me. I’m still confused by the smaller file size, but clearly it did not re-transcode (the burning went very quickly), so there must be some estimating going on that confused me.
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PS — I’ve since tried switching my m2v and wav files to “Don’t transcode.” Interestingly the build size now jumps up to 4.2 gigs, which is still a little low (but maybe it’s a rough estimate?), as my math says it should be 4.4. But I’m not able to get as far as finding out whether it still wants to re-transcode because I get the “file exists” error as soon as it transcodes the first menu. I saw some people with this error have gotten rid of it by just re-starting the program, but this doesn’t work for me. I’m hesitant to go deleting files when I’m not sure what they are. P