Premiere 5 Audio help

[LabanB]

Ok, so here's the deal; just got an new (to me) computer with XP SP2 on it. Uploaded Adobe Premiere 5. When I import an .AVI clip, I get no audio what so ever, even though the clip plays in WM fine. I've looked through everything I can think of within the programme, as well as in the sound section of th control panel.

Any ideas what I need to tweak to get P5 to play the audio as I watch the clip?

Cheers

Bill

[aedipuss]

try mediainfo on the clip to get the spec. put it in text mode and copy/paste the results here.

[LabanB]

Hi, its isn't the clip. As I say, it plays fine in Windows Media Player.

[julitomg]

Nobody is saying your clip is no good...Do you want help or not?...Knowing your clip´s specs from Mediainfo will give us some clues to what can the problem be regarding the audio playback within Premiere, otherwise you are providing almost no useful information.

[aedipuss]

mediainfo is a free program. click it's highlighted name and it will take you to it's tool page where you can download it.

[LabanB]

Hopefully the fillowing is what you are after. I have captured video using Premiere (no audio was captured); VirtualDub (audio was captured, but not audible during capture) and Windows Videomaker (?) - again, no audio when capturing, but file plays fine in WMP.



General
Complete name 2004 1 Intro.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Commercial name : DVCPRO
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 1.83 GiB
Duration : 8mn 39s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 30.3 Mbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : DV
Commercial name : DVCPRO
Codec ID : dvsd
Codec ID/Hint : Sony
Duration : 8mn 39s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mbps
Encoded bit rate : 28.8 Mbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Bottom Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00:00
Time code source : Subcode time code
Stream size : 1.74 GiB (95%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 8mn 39s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 95.0 MiB (5%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 599 ms (14.98 video frames)


Cheers

Bill

[smrpix]

You have an exceedingly ordinary DV .avi file. No reason it shouldn't play in everything. Try this, open the file in Premiere, edit it into a timeline and expand the audio tracks to reveal the waveforms. Does anything show up? If you see waveforms turn off either the left or right channel and see if you can hear anything. It could be the left and right tracks are out of phase and canceling each other out.

And how specifically are you "capturing?" By the normal usage of that word it shouldn't be necessary.

[LabanB]

Hi Smrpix, I'll give that a go. I'm capturing via Firewire.

Bill

[LabanB]

Interesting. The file d/l through Premiere shows no audio. But when I ripped the audio and placed it into 2nd position, its there!

Now, however, when I send the file for processing into a "Movie" Premiere wont do. Error is all I get.

I do have Tempgenc installed, and as I recall there is a way to send th file for processing through it. Any ideas where I can get that info to let me do that?

Bill

[julitomg]

Download and install Debugmode Frameserver (make sure to select Premiere Pro during installation as it gives option for other programs)
Open Premiere CS5, open your project, render whatever need rendering.
Export with Adobe Encoder, select Debugmode frameserver and create signpost.avi
Open TMPGEnc, within it open your signpost.avi and set your parameters (bitrate, etc), remember to select botom field first.
Encode to selected folder.
When encode complete, return to Premiere and tell Frameserver to stop serving.
Done.

[LabanB]

Cheers, I'll give that a go.

Bill

[aedipuss]

try capturing some with winDV. after the capture use the file in pp cs5. the only oddity is that mediainfo shouldn't show it as a sony codec unless you swapped out the microsoft dv codec that is normally used. or installed some codec pack.

[LabanB]

Cheers for that Aedipuss, I'll give it a go. And yes I've installed new codecs to help with Virtualdub.

Bill