Trouble working with tapeless media in Premiere Pro CS4?

I am using a Samsung SC-HMX20C HD tapless camcorder that records in 1080i (60i). I am editing on a Dell T3400 with Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q95550 at 2.83GHz, with 3GB of RAM. I am able to import video in both AVCHD and HDV, but when I go to play it in Premiere Pro, my source monitor goes green, and Pro freezes up. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Excellent suggestion. I checked my file info. for the video clip, and it said I recorded it as an HDV MP4. Is there another way to find out for sure?

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Using the file>export>media. I want to bounce my whole project down to AVI and Im getting errors from Media Encoder CS4. See below.........
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Thanks for those details. I just noticed that all the avi and wavs are still located in the CS3 folder from the previous installation. Could that be the hitch?
This project was created in CS3, then converted 2 days ago into a CS4 project. There was some wierdness on a few things after conversion, but nothing out of the ordinary and CS4 is running like a champ on my system until I attempted to do this bounce. I am new to Premiere, so I may be missing something as simple as updating filepaths, etc.?
Yes, MP3 is terrible. I have the v.o. in wav. Honestly, I didnt notice the music track was in MP3 until gathering project specs for this. I was planning on replacing that for the final export. Im using a 3rd party sidechain VST for the ducking in PPro.....Sidekick 4.1: http://www.twistedlemon.nl/site/
It requires tht you run two instances of the plugin on seperate stereo tracks (still need to deal with the vo track having to be in stereo for now).
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File Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Kyle Fowler\Kyle Fowler's Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\3.0\TAPE 1.avi
Type: AVI Movie
File Size: 12.1 GB
Image Size: 720 x 480
Pixel Depth: 32
Frame Rate: 29.97
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Total Duration: 00;57;02;20
Average Data Rate: 3.6 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.9091
AVI File details:
Timecode:
Reel name: Untitled Tape
User Timecode: 08;06;40;11
Reel name: Untitled Tape
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).
Interleave: 1 : 28.99
Video track 1:
Size is 11.46G bytes (average frame = 123.44K bytes)
There are 102576 keyframes.
Frame rate is 29.97 fps
Frame size is 720 x 480
Depth is 24 bits.
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Audio track 1:
Size is 626.70M bytes
Rate is 48000 samples/sec
Sample size is 16 bits
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For editing AVCHD Formats recorded in anamorphic 1920x1080 (ex.1440x1080).
16:9 interlaced HD video at 25 frames per second.
48kHz audio.
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Editing mode: AVCHD 1080i anamorphic
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Frame rate: 25.00 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD Anamorphic 1080 (1.333)
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Stereo tracks: 3
5.1 tracks: 3
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Submix stereo tracks: 0
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When I tried this today, Encore still just told me about the transcoded previous version of my sequence and I could find no way of convincing the programme that the sequence had changed. When I tried to import the new sequence, for some reason the import function showed me only the top two levels of my directory tree and so I would not access the right directory to try if that option would have worked.
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We are currently using an old version of Adobe Premiere which I would like to upgrade to the latest version. I want to show everyone in the company how good the latest version is and get them to pay for an upgrade/full version.
I then noticed a free trial download for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and thought great idea. Well done Adobe I can now show everyone how good the latest CS4 version is.
5 days later I still can not get the damn thing to install and work!! :-(
In a desperate move I even tried it on a new Windows XP Pro SP3 - 3Gb RAM - Quad Core - 1Tb HD etc.. and when I try and install the Premiere windows 1.3Gb trial installation it eventually says at the end of the installation process (which takes for ever) "Installation Failed - One or more required components of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 failed to install correctly." and it shows the following error log:
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5) I even rang up adobes technical support line and they said use the forums to solve the problem. Cushy job they have...
None of the above fix the problem...
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Day 8 - OK I have finally fixed the problem. I got fed up and purchased the full Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 product and it installed and worked 1st time!!!
I must admit im very annoyed that the Trial version failed but the full product works. The 2 x Premiere Pro CS4 installation CDs went through the installation process without a hitch and I did not get any installation error messages at all.
So my no 1 question is why does the online Adobe Premiere CS4 Trial version fail to install but the full product can ?
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2) Another obvious observation is the trial version has numerous features removed and hacked out of it So did the Adobe engineer get carried away with the hacking process and also remove some important installation code and procedures.
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Please Adobe just give the online users the option of 2 x CD ISO Images to download and burn onto a CD as this could save other users the same frustrating time I have had and maybe give you more revenue.

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I have JVC Everio jvc everio gz-hd5 60GB camcorder. As you probably know that it records file into .TOD format, I converted them into .MPG format. This is how I am importing to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 before it's showing me golden little screen displaying PENDING MEDIA forever.
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Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 Service pack 3
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That's your first step I think...
You will have to know what your video file is...from the camera manual you can find out the frame size and fps used, whether it is progressive or interlaced, etc... The reason you will need to know about your video file is because when you open the TOD file in a program like streamclip to convert it, you will want to convert it to basically the same specs, but with as a different "codec" and file type....but keep the same video characteristics as the original.

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Magic.

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