[Sami Succar]

okay.. this is a wild guess…
let’s say that when the videos were captured on the external hd using the director’s system, that hd was related as drive x:\
and when u plugged the hd to ur system, it was related as drive y:\
if you change the drive letter in your system to what it was named at the director’s system, probably the project will be able to link the files…
however, if you did any saves to the project on your system, it probably lost the original links and you have to do it all over again… but maybe u can find an original back up copy of the project before you did the saves…
good luck

the child is grown
the dream is gone

[Sami Succar]

hi Sergio…
i thinki know exactly what u mean cause i used to do my work on avid express before switching to adobe…
u’re absolutely right, the delay is there and i don’t think there’s anything to do about it… it’s some disadvantages with premiere…
but for me, with practice i got used to it, and i just hit the “k” just a few frames before where i actually want it stop…
i know it sounds wierd, but i just got used to it…
avid’s response to such tiny things is wayyyy much better than adobe’s…

the child is grown
the dream is gone

[Sami Succar]

PP3 needs to render ALL kinds of files… except the .avi files captured by PP3 or exported from PP3…
the thing is that in your case even the files exported from PP3 request rendering, well i guess (just guessing) that the export settings are different (even slightly) from the project settings…

the child is grown
the dream is gone

[Sami Succar]

not to worry, it’s quite simple…
– put all videos in the timeline but not one above the other, instead put them one after the other…. then u can just hold the audio track of a video and drag it to another audio track… then slide the video back above the previous…
– another solution: put one video in the timeline (it will automatically go to video track 1 and audio track 1), open the second in the source monitor (double-click it from the project panel), in the timeline select video track 2 and audio track 2, then go back to the source monitor and press “.” or click on the overlay button…
good luck

the child is grown
the dream is gone

[Sami Succar]

I’m not sure if this is a complete stupid reply.
Can’t you use the render queue to do that?