Adobe Premiere 7 help!

[fazz81]

Hi all,

Just started learning the above piece of software.
All going quite well apart from problems with Audio.
I import a video clip and open in the Monitor window, when I play it here the audio plays fine and I can hear it.

However when I insert the clip into the sequence the audio does not work, I have tried creating various output formats, but none of them have any audio.

Anyone got any ideas, really lost on how to make it work.

Thanks
Simon

[chim_knee]

fazz81 said:

Hi all, Just started learning the above piece of software. All going quite well apart from problems with Audio. I import a video clip and open in the Monitor window, when I play it here the audio plays fine and I can hear it. However when I insert the clip into the sequence the audio does not work, I have tried creating various output formats, but none of them have any audio. Anyone got any ideas, really lost on how to make it work. Thanks Simon

I don't know version 7 but a simple check (and by no means meant to be patronising!) - have you made sure that the audio track that is used when the clip is imported isn't muted?

In Premier Pro 1.5, each clip you import to a new video track gets a subsequent audio track - on the left hand side of this is the facility to mute that track.

>> Edited by chim_knee on Wednesday 27th July 12:57

[fazz81]

Don't worry about being patronising, any help is appreciated!
The clip I import is a video file which has sound in it and its not muted.

One thing I do notice is, if I add just an mp3 audio track into the timeline, it shows up the wave pattern, however when I add the video clip with sound, the wave pattern is just a straight line.
So it seems that its somehow losing the audio data between the preview (where I can hear it) and the timeline (where I can't hear it) all very odd.

edit to add: the video i am importing is an mpeg file, is this ok?

Cheers

>> Edited by fazz81 on Wednesday 27th July 13:39

[ErnestM]

Are you importing the video clip from a file or by capture?

If importing from a file, what is the file type? (Adobe Premier does odd things with some file types - one of which is to not properly import audio...)

ErnestM

Edited to add: saw your response above. MPEG1 or MPEG2?

>> Edited by ErnestM on Wednesday 27th July 15:02

[fazz81]

I'm importing by file, MPEG-2 I believe.

Anyone know off a free tool to convert from MPEG-2 created on a Sony camera to AVI?

>> Edited by fazz81 on Wednesday 27th July 15:58

[ErnestM]

Let me guess, a DVD camera?

There is a somewhat circuitous work around to do it without loading additional software. Use Windows Movie Maker.

1. While you cannot import MPEG2 video into Windows Movie Maker, you can import MPEG2 as an audio file. Therefor: import into Movie Maker and just save the audio as a Windows WMA file.

2. Import the MPEG2 into Premier. Put the Video on the timeline.

3. Import the WMA file as an audio asset.

4. Get rid of the "empty" audio track on the timeline by splitting audio from video from the imported MPEG2.

5. Add the WMA file on the timeline as the audio track

6. Preview your movie to line up the audio with video

Export the lot to a file/filetype of your choice and Robert's your father's brother.

ErnestM

[fazz81]

ErnestM said:

Let me guess, a DVD camera? There is a somewhat circuitous work around to do it without loading additional software. Use Windows Movie Maker. 1. While you cannot import MPEG2 video into Windows Movie Maker, you can import MPEG2 as an audio file. Therefor: import into Movie Maker and just save the audio as a Windows WMA file. 2. Import the MPEG2 into Premier. Put the Video on the timeline. 3. Import the WMA file as an audio asset. 4. Get rid of the "empty" audio track on the timeline by splitting audio from video from the imported MPEG2. 5. Add the WMA file on the timeline as the audio track 6. Preview your movie to line up the audio with video Export the lot to a file/filetype of your choice and Robert's your father's brother. ErnestM

Yep, spot on, its a Sony DVD Handycam.

Right, I tried the above but even Winows Movie Maker would not play the sound. So that scuppered that.

After hours of internet searching I found this little utility - Auto Gordian Knot 2.13b. This can take MPEG or DVD images and convert to AVI. It converts to AVI using either the DIVX or VIDX codec and I had to encode the sound as MP3, and when this was imported to Premiere it worked!!!!!!!

Many thnaks for all your help.
Simon