Length of AVI file is different in FCE

I am importing AVI files that were created on a PC into FCE 3.5
The time length of the file is cut off in FCE.
That same AVI file is full length when played in Quicktime.
Any reason why FCE won't play the entire length?

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I have a ton of avi files that I need to convert for editing in FCE.
My goal: to get my avi clips into FCE so they don't have to be rendered in the timeline and everytime an edit is made. I've read several posts which suggests mpeg streamclip. My avi format is: Apple OpenDML JPEG, 640 x 480, Millions DVI ADPCM, Mono, 22.050 kHz FPS: 29.97, size: 640 x 480 pixels (this is the format listed when I open the clip in quicktime). My my final output of this FCE project is to view on HDTV (16:9) via dvd, so the best quality is what I would like.
My questions:
Is streamclip what I should be using?
And what settings should I use in streamclip to convert the avi files? (my guess would be: quicktime movie for the format) I've been trying different options under quicktime movie and the conversion leads to a jerky choppy video.
thank you!

MartinR wrote:
I'm thinking the problem is you are missing an audio codec required for this Casio Exilim video. Your camera specs say that it records MJPEG in an AVI container with a spec for WAV audio. You also indicated that the VLC media player said it was MS audio.
when I open a avi file in mpeg streamclip these are the specs that are listed under "show stream info"
Stream: CIMG1281.AVI
Path: ~/Documents/CIMG1281.AVI
Duration: 0:00:35
Data Size: 26.65 MB
Bit Rate: 6.25 Mbps
Video Tracks:
Motion JPEG OpenDML, 640 × 480, 29.97 fps, 6.17 Mbps
Audio Tracks:
DVI IMA mono, 22.05 kHz, 89 kbps
Stream Files:
CIMG1281.AVI (26.65 MB)
MartinR wrote:
Have you tried the Perian plugin for QuickTime. It adds AC3.audio support for playback of AVI files, which seems to have fixed the no-audio problem for a bunch of other people.
Yes, I have perian installed. I even tried reinstalling both to be sure.

How can a make avi files without the length changing?

I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I'm posting it first here, as the process also involves FinalCut. If there's a better place to get an answer, maybe someone could streer me in that direction.
I'm doing some subtling which will then be coded onto professional tapes using FCP. I don't have the equipment (digibeta machines) to do that process at my end, so I'm sending the files to a studio and they're going to do the rest for me.
I have software that'll let me lay down subtitles and then export files with time code, but the software previews with avi files. After messages from the studio telling me that the subtitles were falling out of sync, I finally realized that the avi files I had made from the 30 minute DVD screeners were 4 seconds shorter in length than the material on the screener. I made more and more avi files to double check, each one came out 4 seconds shorter than it should have been. So that's my problem.
Does anyone know of a way to convert DVD (or VOB) files to avi without losing any time? Alternatively, does anyone know of a program for subtitling that works straight from DVDs? (I looked into Belle Nuit Subtitler, but it's impossible to tell how it works without paying for it and waiting three or four days for the order to manually process.)
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The best solution to my particular problem seemed to be putting the avi file on the timeline in FCP, selecting it, the choosing "Duration" from the "Modify" menu and resizing it to the length it should have been.
I'm actually getting a friend to adjust most of the files in Premiere with his PC as I'm still on a G4 PowerBook and the rendering time for the avi files before I can manipulate them was half a day each. (Premiere has a similar feature.)
Thanks again to Andy for the MPEG Streamclip tip...it looks like it'll be useful in the future, and it's free! Cinematize also looked like it could have helped, but the demo mode only let me test 10 second exports at a time and that wasn't really enough for me to tell if the length changed or not. Didn't buy it this time around.
I also get the point that there must be a lot of people who use the term "urgent" to mean "hurry up and help me, I don't have time to read" with prolific good Samaratians no doubt tired of being bossed around in that way.
Fair enough.
Anyway, the "Duration" option within FCP is one way to fix DVD burns and other format conversions that come out with different time spreads from the original. Rendering can take time on slower Macs though.

Reading fixed length file with different record types

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I need to read a fixed-length file with different record types, but the record identifier is in 31st position and not in 1st position.
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How to write 3 AVI files from 3 different cameras connected to 3 PCI 1411's?

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Your best bet is to use the new IMAQ Vision 7, which was released last Tuesday, I believe. It now has native support for writing compressed AVI movie files. These VIs are used the same way the Write BMP.vi and other file I/O VIs are used in IMAQ Vision 6.1.
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I've noticed that when I use the iPhoto Search to filter all movies (.AVI files) that all my clips come up (eg. 700 clips in 2007). However, with a Smart Album I have set up to display the .AVI files, the last several weeks of clips seem to be missing (eg. 630 clips from the 2007 album). I've checked all the Smart Album criteria and they are correct. Is this a glitch in iPhoto or is there some other explanation?

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or
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Can FCP6 edit avi files? FCE 3.5 does. I have Quicktime 7.6.2. If I go to more recent Quicktine will Final Cut Pro6 edit avi clips? Thanks for any help. It's confusing because my Final Cut Express does edit avi.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, FCE 3.5 does handle .AVI without rendering, the same as if it was a .mov. I just tried it to make sure I wasn't imagining it. I don't understand how you would render it in FCP before working with it. An AVI just shows up as black frames. And once you work with it wouldn't it become surrendered? I've been using QuickTime to convert from AVI to mov. Is that the bet way. I'm using 1080p video. I wonder why dcs will do AVI, but not fcp?? Thanks again.

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In Premiere Pro CS5.5 AVI file imports audio only - no video.

I've got a file (one of 3) I've been given to create a smaller file (320x480) from.
The file is an avi file and plays (video and audio) just fine in the native Windows media player. (I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit) There are no issues of memory or HDisc space.
Video:
The file is 2:21:29 in length.
720x480
Data rate 1489kbps
Total bitrate 1617kbps
29 frames/second
Audio:
Bit rate 128kbps
Channels 2 (stereo)
Audio sample rate 48 kHz
The file is about 1.6Gb
This is one of 3 I recieved. The other two were of comparable specs and similar length (not exactly but one was longer, the other shorter.)
The problem is that this particular file (the other two import perfectly), when imported, only comes in as an audio file. No video imports. The other files import as audio and video. No error message either.
I've imported all kinds of video files in the past with different frame sizes, rates, and aspect ratios, and codecs, yet I've never had one that only imports the audio without the video.
Suggestions?!

Post in the Premiere Pro forum. This forum is for suite specific issues only.
Bob

AVI File Captured in Premiere Elements 8 Only Plays First Few Minutes

Hello folks,
I'm totally new to this. My problem: I've recently installed Premiere Elements 8 and used it to capture some mini DV video tapes (via firewire), without any significant problems (other than a few freezes). Now I've tried to capture some VHSC tapes via my TV card (Avermedia H727). The capture process went well (except that the preview screen was just a fuzzy mess!) but I had to plug the audio inputs into my sound card (onboard) rather than the TV card.
The caputred files are about 6 + Gb for a 30 minute tape but when playing the captured video back in PrE8 only the first few minutes is available (the length of playback seems to vary unpredictably (1 tape allowed 3 minutes of playback, another a bit less).   The full avi files can be played back in Roxio or Windows Media Player etc but not PrE8.
Interestingly, videos captured from VHSC via the same TV card in Roxio 2010 Pro will play back correctly and fully in PrE8.   I had to switch audio inputs to the TV card (rather than the soundcard) for the audio to be captured with Roxio.
My son has tried to help me with this (having some experience on PrE2) but he's also drawn a blank with this.
I'd be very grateful for any help that you might be able to give as I've not found anything in FAQ although it's not easy to succintly define my search for this problem.
Many thanks
Computer spec:
OS     Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
CPU     Intel i7 2.8GHz
RAM     4Gb DDR3
MB     Asus P7P55D Deluxe
HDD     2x Sata II Western Digital 1.5Tb (each)
Graphics     ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 series
All updates for Windows 7 and PrE8 installed

Thanks John:
My PC has 2 HDDs and both are of the “green” variety. Both are partitioned (2 partitions on each HDD) with operating systems on the first partition (Windows 7 Pro 64 bit on one and Windows XP Pro -32 bit on the other, the operating systems are on different physical drives).
The tips relating to PrPro are hard to follow as they are quite technical and I’m not even sure which ones also relate to PrE8.   It would take me an age to try to wade through this lot.
My point is that my current setup (for all its imperfections) will capture video (via the TV card) using PrE8 as the capture software. The setup must be adequate for this task as the complete avi file is played back correctly on Roxio and Windows Media Player but PrE8 fails to recognise any video after the first 3 minutes (approx).
If I capture to PrE8 using a firewire connection from my mini DV video camera then the capture proceeds normally (apart from odd freezes) and the captured video is all playable in PrE8.
When capturing using the mini DV camera, I select "DV camcorder" in the “Get Media” menu. However, this only supports Firewire or USB sources.   When capturing from the VHSC tapes via the TV card I have to select “Webcam or WDM Device” as the media source (I’m not convinced that this is the most suitable capture mode but it’s the only one I can find that doesn’t look for either a firewire or USB device.
It seems as though PrE8 must be putting some code onto the captured video that prevents more of it from playing back because avi files recorded on Roxio will playback fully.   I've tried to copy the PrE8 avi files into a different folder (devoid of any PrE8 project files) and then renaming the file before importing into PrE8 but still only the first few minutes will play.   My thinking here was that perhaps one of the other associated project files that PrE8 creates might be the source of the corrupt info.
Many thanks for your interest and taking the trouble to respond.

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Importing AVI files

Hello. I've just switched over from the dark side to Mac and I need some help using FCE. Here are my basic questions:
1) Best settings/method for importing AVI files from a hard disk?
2) Best export settings for high quality use in powerpoint and/or DVD/CD?
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I work with athletes in the areas of sport science and performance. I have tons of video saved on multiple hard drives in AVI format that we did video analysis of technique using DartFISH. They were originally captured with good quality digital video cameras via DartFISH as AVI files. These are large files and high quality video (200-300 MB for a 1 min clip) .
RIght now, if I choose "import: from file" I get a message saying the clips are not optimized for FCE and I should recapture them. Unfortunately, all I have are the files on HD and not the original tapes, etc.
What is the best way to import the AVI clip files into FCE for editing? Settings, etc. Do I need to convert to a Mac-friendly format first with a third-party app like QuickTime Pro, VLC, MPEG StreamClip? Use iMovie?
My overall goal is to not lose quality/suffer degradation of the clips in the conversion, edit, export process. I'm not that concerned with file size, but I also don't really want to go through 3 or four steps and create multiple large files for the same clip.
My desired output is for continued work with athletes so they can take video home (DVD or CD of clips) to review and academic presentations (powerpoint). So seeing fine detail in the clips is important. An edit/output set-up that I will use a lot is merging two clips to play in a PIP, side-by-side, or overlay format. i.e., athlete A with perfect form on the left, athlete B with flaws on the right and the clips play simultaneously as one final output movie.
Is the basic Quicktime export function the best for my needs?
I've got a decent background in computers and basic video editing. Clip splitting, marking in/out, timeline, transitions, and other edit functions are no problem. My main area of weakness is all the different video formats, codecs, compression options, and other similar settings. There weren't many of those types of choices in my old system. I've produced some movies with FCE already, but the quality in the videos dropped from the original clips to final output.
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TD...

Tom--
Thanks for the response. Using MPEG Streamclip solved my import problems. Using the default DV25 compression seemed to yield a file of similar size to my original AVI files. Is there much benefit in using the DVCPRO25 or DVCPRO50?
I'm still having some troubles with export format settings. Using the default Quicktime movie export, the finished clips looks to be fine in Quicktime. But using the .mov clip in Powerpoint yields some degraded quality. The picture appears to have "lines" and generally looks less crisp/clean. I thought this might have been just some Microsoft flaw in the Powerpoint movie engines, but I tried the same thing in Apple Keynote and got the same result. I have some screen shot image captures I could send you, but not sure how on the discussion board.

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