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Wrong Video Length!

Jan 30, 2005 2:51AM PST

I've just dumped an entire DV tape to my drive (60 minutes) using Windows Movie Maker. The full 60 minutes plays fine in Windows Media Player, however when importing to Adobe Premier Pro, the program seems to detect only three minutes of video footage!

I suspect that this is because some of the frames were "dropped" while importing.

Is there anyway to import all video?

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What does Adobe support say?
Jan 30, 2005 4:08AM PST

That's one pricey program. Call them.

My only thought is to transcode it in Virtual Dub to something Adobe likes.

bob

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I think Windows Movie Maker uses a proprietary format
Jan 30, 2005 5:03AM PST

that Adobe can't read. Why don't you use Adobe to do the capture? It's a far more capable video product anyway.

It is very unlikely that the problem is due to dropped frames. If that were the case, you would have one hour of audio while the video stuttered from frame to frame, or the video would be completely out of sync with the audio.

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Re: I think Windows Movie Maker uses a proprietary format
Jan 30, 2005 6:21AM PST

I used Windows Movie Maker instead of Premier since Premier (bizarrely) seemed to stop capturing after I minimised the program.

I'll try strip the audio and video away from each other using VirtualDub. Oh well... Since I don't have the original recordings on tape, I guess I'll have to make the most of it.

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I don't know what you are talking about, but why would
Jan 30, 2005 11:06AM PST

you minimize Premiere when it is capturing? There should be NOTHING ELSE running while it's doing the capture.

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Heck, I can play Doom during capture.
Jan 30, 2005 11:16AM PST

But I'm on another computer....

Listen to Kiddpeat!

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Yeah, but...
Jan 31, 2005 5:36AM PST

At the time, my computer was at a science exhibition (http://www.esatys.com/) - I had to run a simulation for the public while copying the tape, and so I had to minimise the program.

This was a rare case, but yes - I'll use Premier in future.