Perhaps because of the camera, perhaps because of RAM issues on my computer, and/or perhaps because Premiere has difficulty with certain containers/codecs – but all the footage I’ve taken for Docks has been virtually unimportable. Premiere will simply stall during the audio normalization process, making the end footage uneditable. Sony Vegas fares no better. Heck, even playback is just as problematic, with only VLC being able to handle it all.
So I decided to use VLC to transcode the footage into a format that Premiere would accept more readily. The way I went about it is that I converted a 20 minute sample file into a multitude of formats, seeing which fared best. I then imported it into Premiere, and saw how Premiere handled the formats. I then tweaked the settings until I was satisfied. Sounds simple enough, but that conversion process takes quite a while to complete – and most of stuff I outputed were duds. In all, this took me over two weeks to get done. The length of time required was compounded by the fact that I’ve been incredibly busy with school, work, and my thesis (big priority.)
I’ve got VLC now converting all the footage into the new editable format using a batch script. It should be done in two days, assuming the computer doesn’t crash till then.
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I’ve never had any problems importing that stuff. Maybe send me some m2ts and let me see what happens.