[Tom Frisch]

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I don’t have a good shot to pull the mask from, so I think I’m going to do some spot fixes, or just cover with b-roll. No one wants to watch a talking head anyways!

[Tom Frisch]

Let us know if you get that to work. For me it was better just to dig in and fix what I had. Now the project is done, and I won’t make that mistake again.

-Tom

[Tom Frisch]

I think so. It worked for me yesterday w/ stereo files off my zoom.
I think the default to mono is the problem- it doesn’t properly split them to 2 mono files.

[Tom Frisch]

The proper way is listed higher up in this thread..

“…Clip > Audio Options > Breakout to Mono to separate the stereo track instead of the Modify > Audio Channels > Mono Track Format, and it’s not killing the audio for the merged clips after saving and restarting premiere.”

[Tom Frisch]

I’m guessing that any time you have a stereo set to mono, rather than separated into mono tracks, you’ll run into this problem. Probably will have to replace all the audio with properly separated mono clips.

-Tom

[Tom Frisch]

I ended up going back to the sequence where I synced all the audio (by hand, because I don’t have pluraleyes). Then I went through and used the clip start point from the incorrectly made mono files to align the correctly split out mono files. Then I cut the ends to match the video clip, and made a new merged clip.

Pain in the butt, but easier than resyncing everything.

Then I had to build my sequence up again, using the broken sequence as a reference for which clips I used, I replaced each clip by hand with the new correctly made merged clip.

Frustrating to say the least.

[Tom Frisch]

This is most certainly a bug. If it wasn’t, then when you try to merge clips that have 2 mono tracks that weren’t properly separated from the source stereo file, it shouldn’t work- but it does until you quit.

Good thing I’ve only wasted 4 hours of my edit that I’ll have to re-do now.

Strange thing for me is that I’d been through several shutdown/startup cycles before the problem presented itself.

-Tom

[Tom Frisch]

Thank Tom, I guess I should have clarified- I’m looking for Windows users experiences, as it seems the reliability of 3rd party cards vary by platform.

-Tom

[Tom Frisch]

Thanks for the reply Jeff. It’s good to hear of at least one person having good results w/ the AJA cards on PC.

I’d love to hear from other AJA or Matrox users who edit in PPro. Are the drivers working well enough now? Is the timeline snappy?

Is anyone having much luck using the Matrox MX02 and it’s calibration utility w/ either a pro video monitor, or a cheaper consumer display?

I’m leaning towards the “cheaper” route of using a Ezio CG243W 10bit displayport monitor w/ my Quadro CX card for monitoring. It can’t do more than dual head output- but I can get calibrated Rec709 off a PPro timeline for ~$2k without any drivers beyond what I’m already using. This is assuming that it’s a YUV codec, and only 32bit float/YUV fx are applied.

[Tom Frisch]

Valid point, but I still do not want a transcode workflow if I can avoid it. My main question is about Kona w/ HP Dreamcolor. I guess it would also be good to know if files transcoded to DNx would work well in that environment.