Audio/ sequencing

I've found myself with a bit of a burden. I couldn't capture clips onto sequence 12.6.06 (I date my sequences to stay sane). But I found that I could capture them onto yesterday's sequence 12.5.06. How this happened I have yet to figure out. After hours of editing these clips, I thought I could just copy and paste them onto sequence 12.6.05. No audio.
So my capturing worked, but copy paste did not. I've checked thoroughly my preferences, but I doubt they have anything to do with this. Maybe they do.

What you have is a problem, not a burden. I hope someone can decipher the rest of your post.
You can capture into bins and you can recapture clips that are in sequences but you cannot capture clips onto sequences.
bogiesan

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1st, that old program has a different forum http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_previous
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It could be internal sync (through an IAC Driver bus) or externally through MIDI Time Code (for instance), that is in the case you would need 2 computers to do the job, with one dedicated to audio.
Thanks for you answer.
C.

Funny, I never had an answer to this one. On any Forum. Is this so weird?
bm

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I have a problem Captivates TTS audio. When I use the F3 key to check the audio sequence, everything sounds normal.
However, after publishing the entire course as an .exe file some audio sequences are cut off at the end, e.g. using the following text “ear-phones are needed”, in the published version Paul only says “Ear-phones are NEED”.
First, I thought that the end of the audio was too close to the end of the slide. Therefore, I made sure that every slides duration was longer than the audio. But it didn’t make a difference.
Has anyone experienced this before and knows how to help?
Your help is appreciated!
I use Captivate 5, but also had this problem in version 4...

Hello There,
Can you try the steps mentioned in http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2009/04/vtml_tags_in_text_to_speech_1.html? Adding this VTML tag should be resolving the issue. Please let me know.
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When I drag a clip to the timeline a redline appears on the top of the timeline. I know this means that there is a setting issue between the sequence and the clips. All the settings are the same with the exception of the:
audio format - Clip: 8 bit integer
Seq: 32 Bit Floating
Audio Rate - Clip: 48000 5kh
Seq: 48.0 KH
The clips which is 1 1/2 HR takes 6 minutes to render.
Does anyone know why I need to render this clip?
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Here: a foolproof way to ensure clip-sequence settings match up:
http://web.mac.com/steelepro/iWeb/steelecuts.com/fcs%20detective/6FD1D5FD-0C56-4 F06-992C-902D00556549.html
And if you still have the problem, why not convert it to AIFF via QT?

Audio mixes not correct when inserting nested sequence.

Ah, yet another anomalous behavior issue...
I commonly edit packages for a program I regularly work on, then drop the nested sequences into the show timeline...it's easier that way, and the EP likes it that way. However, I occasionally come across an issue where the nested audio sequence doesn't "remember" the mix levels of the component parts. For instance, I just made an audio adjustment to the open of the show, and dropped the nested open into the show timeline...where it promptly "forgot" the music rampdown I'd just done.
The workaround? I slipped the audio track, blowing out the render files...then dragged the clip back into sync, re-rendered again...and then the mix stuck.
Probably I should do this sort of stuff in Soundtrack, eh?

FCS has lots of quirks (I hesitate to call them bugs because they are not always repeatable). Still, people need to keep in mind that the FCS suite is built upon an ancient (in computer years) core technology (and code). While everyone is holding their breath for 64bit thinking it will be faster, I'm cringing because I know what a massive bit of code this suite represents and the thought that a complete rewrite will get everything correct is simply unimaginable.
[/rant on] My simple hope is they do not keep chasing after these consumer formats (including BR) and simply focus on making the core of the program function exactly as it should - especially media management. The whole 32bit/64bit nonsense is a distraction. Stuff that is stable and works the same every time - even if a little quirky- is MUCH more valuable in the professional environment than dumping in loads of new stuff. [/rant off]
Have fun.
x

Nesting Sequences (Audio Tracks Problem)

I am trying to use Premiere to make a rough (rough!) edit of some audio. There is no video yet.*
I made a handful of sequences in Premiere, all of which consist of edited audio clips.
Now I have created a new big sequence, and I want to nest the audio sequences in this new big sequence. (I only want to bring in the audio, if I can do this easily.)
When I drag the sequences into the new big sequence, it keeps dumping the audio on Track 9, which didn't exist before.
How tough will it be to put the audio of the nested sequences on Track 1?
*Animations will be made later in After Effects and added to the timeline to go with the audio. Until then, there's no video.

Your sequence setup is messing things up. Audio tracks are either mono, stereo or 5.1. If you have only stereo tracks (indicated by the two speaker icon at the left side of the track), they can not be placed in a mono or 5.1 track. If a stereo track is missing, one will be created for you. Same with the other formats. There is nothing wrong with a 9-th audio track, but you can delete the empty tracks above it easily to move your audio track to the first track.
Basically, you need to adjust your sequence settings.

HELP: Unintentional audio keyframing

Hi,
I'm not sure how else to describe the problem aside from unintentional audio keyframing, but not that is visible in any individual audio tracks.
Here's what's happening.
I have a single video clip of someone entering a car. when he's in the car and the door shuts, I have key framed 3 of the audio tracks to drop from +10 to -10 decibels to simulate the effect of the closed door.
the three audio tracks are car alarms going on outside.
everything was fine until some point last night I think I hit a combination of keys that have somehow linked these audio tracks and changed their levels, because shortly after the actor closes the car door and starts speaking, the car alarm volumes get louder.
no keyframes or level changes are visible in the individual tracks, and when I play them individually there is not a problem.
furthermore, I rebuilt the entire three audio track sequence from scratch and re-keyframed everything, and when I play it back the proble occurs. if i turn off the vocal tracks and just play the alarms there is no problem, so it kind of comes and goes.
last thing, around the time that this happened there was a horizontal red line across the hash marks of the timeline - i have never seen this before.
did i somehow link a whole cluster of clips to an unintentional audio shift? i've got a pretty good handle on this software but I am baffled. (i even exported a movie of the subject sequence and the problem exists in the mov file too.)
Help please.
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I've tried that - thanks. Re-rendering made no difference. I can see keyframes in other clips - with this situation there is absolutely no obvious reason why the volume level changes so dramatically.
I ended up rebuilding the whole audio sequence again from scratch on different tracks and it's OK now. I did a work-around.
T

Multiple Audio Lines

hi all,
Are there any open source projects out there that will show us ways to implement multiple audio lines and allow manipulation of each audio line seperately? e.g volume, pan etc??
Is anyone working on a project that they would post??
I have been working on a project which has 8 tracks, i have it playing the 8 tracks of audio but i am simply calling the same play function 8 times with a different file name each time. I use the play method described in the JavaAlmanac.
If anyone has a project in development or otherwise, i would be very grateful if they would be able to post it here!! I'm sure it will be of benefit to them aswell as everyone else.
cheers,
RC

hello again everyone,
As no one made any replys to this topic, i will now show you what i have ended up doing to create my multiple track audio sequencer.
Its not the best in terms of "smart code" but it works, and since i have a deadline for this project, i am happy to get it working no matter what way the code is structured.
i simply used this file
import java.awt.*;
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
import java.io.*;
public class AudioTrack0Handler
     boolean mute = false;
     String fileName;
     int loop;
     Clip clip;
     public void play(String file, int loops )
               fileName = file;
               loop = loops;
               try{
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               AudioInputStream stream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(new File("C:\\java\\code\\Audio\\" + fileName ));
               //AudioInputStream stream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(new File("1.wav"));
               // At present, ALAW and ULAW encodings must be converted
               // to PCM_SIGNED before it can be played
               AudioFormat format = stream.getFormat();
               if (format.getEncoding() != AudioFormat.Encoding.PCM_SIGNED) {
                    format = new AudioFormat(
                              AudioFormat.Encoding.PCM_SIGNED,
                              format.getSampleRate(),
                              format.getSampleSizeInBits()*2,
                              format.getChannels(),
                              format.getFrameSize()*2,
                              format.getFrameRate(),
                              true);        // big endian
                    stream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(format, stream);
               // Create the clip
               DataLine.Info info= new DataLine.Info(
                    Clip.class, stream.getFormat(), ((int)stream.getFrameLength()*format.getFrameSize()));
               clip = (Clip) AudioSystem.getLine(info);
               clip.open(stream);
               // Start playing
               clip.loop(loop);
               //clip.stop();
               } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace();
               } catch (LineUnavailableException e) { e.printStackTrace();
               } catch (UnsupportedAudioFileException e) { e.printStackTrace();}
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          clip.stop();
          clip.flush();
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          /*Control[] ctrl = clip.getControls();
          for (int i=0; i < ctrl.length; i++)
               System.out.println(ctrl);
          FloatControl gainControl = (FloatControl)clip.getControl(FloatControl.Type.MASTER_GAIN);
          //double gain = .5D; // number between 0 and 1 (loudest)
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          switch((int)gainControl.getValue())
                         case 0:
                         gainControl.setValue(-80);
                         break;
                         case -80:
                         gainControl.setValue(0);
                         break;
and created it eight times for 8 audio tracks. i call each track seperately when i need to access the methods. With the stop method and mute method, it also allows me to stop all tracks or mute/unmute individual ones during playback.
In parts This is a primitve way of doing it (i think) but it will remain here as a guide for anyone who finds it!
cheers,
RC

All my audio (WAV) files got destroyed by "Metadata writing in progress" error. Help please?

I am running Adobe Premiere CS6.03 which is the most current update I believe. I am running Windows 7 64bit with 16GB RAM 3.60 GHz quad core.
When I tried to save my project I got the error "Metadata writing in progress (2 files pending). If you quit before writing is complete, data will be lost. Are you sure you want ot quit? "
I waited 30 minutes but nothing changed. So I just accepted and exited. Then when I reopened the project all the sound looked like this:
They are WAV files from a Zoom H4N. The video files work perfectly. For some reason it's just the audio files that got destroyed. The actual original WAV files itself are fine it's just that particular sequence, in fact I can pull the original audio files from the project tab into the same sequence and they will play. It would take me ages to reconstruct the audio sequence piece by piece. I tried "Replace Footage" which didn't work and I tried linking the media all over again which didn't work. I've been working on this project forever. Is there any fix for this?

If you have "save media cache next to originals when possible" ticked in your preferences then you might need to delete the .pek files that Premiere generates from the folder that your wav files are in. Premiere will make a new one, and I've found this has fixed similar audio issues that I've had in the past.
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Efficient Way to Edit with Secondary/Independent Audio?

Hello community,
I do a lot of documentary package work and I've finally gotten fed up enough with my workflow to ask this question. Is it possible to efficiently edit in Premiere Pro when your primary source of audio is independent of your video?
For example I have an hour's worth of audio from an independent audio recorder. I sync multiple video clips up to the audio using PluralEyes. Then I import that XML into PP-CC.
From there I have an hour long sequence where I mute all but the independent audio track. And when my producer gives me a script that says to use the SOT from Clip 06: 01:23;01 - 02:01;00, I have to find Clip 06 in the "good audio" sequence timeline, then double click on it to bring it up in the source window, then put the timecode in the source window, set an in point so I have a reference in the sequence with the good sound, then note the sequence timecode so that I can use it when I put the sequence in the source window so that I can finally get it into my package sequence.
And after dropping a few different sequences worth of SOTs, PP takes forever to "Prepare the Audio."
For instance, I'm currently looking at Media Encoder for a minute long package which it telling me it's "Preparing Audio (40 or 517)". It will take a few hours to prepare that audio, then minutes to render.
I know I've got to be doing something, or perhaps many things wrong. Can anyone help my workflow?

Anyone have an answer to this?

Insert new sequence (project) into an existing project?

For a slide show mixing stills and video over songs:
Project was "finished," with images arranged and sequeing as I wanted, and matched to three songs. Including credits, all nicely wrapped up.
I now have to add more images and 1 new song. *This new sequence+song needs to insert between the current songs 2 and 3, maintaining all existing footage and audio as is.* (In other words, song/sequence 3 will still be the final sequence.)
What is the best way to go about this?
1) Create a separate Project B, and then insert that as a whole video+audio sequence into current Project A? Is that even possible?
2) Insert the new audio track where it will live and begin assembling images against it?
3) Insert and assemble the new images and then add the audio?
4) Some other way?
A related query: when adding new audio, it goes in as one large green b.g to the images. On my current project, each audio track is a simple line underneath the images. This latter way is much easier to deal with. How can I make that happen?
Thanks much.
Jonathan

Add your new images first. Then drag the new audio track and drop it on the first of the new images.

Premiere Pro CC - can I waveform sync with *multiple* camera and audio clips a la Pluraleyes?

Many of us use Pluraleyes to sync DSLR and 2nd audio WAV files using waveforms. (No timecode.)
The ability to sync in Premiere Pro CC was mentioned in several feature lists, but I only see the ability to sync one clip at a time.
Is there no way to line up several MOV and WAV files, with different start / stop times and no other match other than waveform, and sync them automatically in Premiere Pro CC in a sequence (or by creating multiple merged clips)? In other words, can I mimic the functionality in Pluraleyes in this new version of Premiere Pro?

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VOB converted to AVI audio files imported to premiere play in different order than the video files

Hello there,
I extracted the VOB files from a burned dvd created with Adobe Premiere pro 1.5, I converted the files into AVI files, then I imported it to Premiere CS4. The video sequence on the timeline plays in the correct order but a very fast speed, and the audio sequence plays all the individual clips in a random order, not in the order that they were originally edited in.
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Hi Elio,
What program, or utility did you use to convert the .vob files to .avi, and what was your target codec? I typically use SUPER Converter, which is free and very versatile, to convert program stream .vob files to a useable format that PPCS4 is compatible with. You can also directly import and edit a .vob file from a DVD in PPCS4 by simply changing the file extension to .mpg. However, doing so will eliminate the audio channel from the video clip in PPCS4.
I was able to recreate what I believe was your issue when I tried converting a .vob file to an .avi file, regardless of what codec I used. I had no issues what so ever when converting the .vob file to a .mov file using the DV codec, for example. It could be a bug with PPCS4 because the same .avi file I created with the DV codec played back fine in WMPlayer, and VLC, but played back almost in slow motion in PPCS4. It might be advantageous for you in the meantime to re-convert the .vob files to .mov files and just choose the standard DV codec.
Remember, you are trying to edit files that are intended for delivery and that were not originally designed to be edited. Attempting to edit inter-frame formats such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, FLV, etc...has caused many a headache and even today, are not the easiest to work with.

How to export audio timeline as PCM and not AAC?

Well this is something I have not come across before and unfortunately, I have not founjd an answer.
As you can se from the attached screen shot, I have an audio sequence that is comprised of many pieces, all of which come from uncompressed PCM sound capture. They are aiff files.
Anyway, if I try to export that sound sequence as Audio Only, my only option is as AAC, which is compressed. That cannot be an option. I need to output as PCM. Under no circumstances can I compress the sound down to a lossy format like AAC or Dolby Digital.
But I don 't see how to make it happen.
Any ideas? I also don't see how it is possible to export to Soundbooth. That can only be done with a single clip.
I do see export as an AAF file, but I have no experience with that. Would that work and then I open in Soundbooth and I save as a PCM wave file?
With that I see options to "Save as legacy AAF" and also "Embed Audio."
I'm lost. Oh yes, I am on a PC and have CS5 Production Premium.

No, if I choose audio only, I have AAC as the only option.
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