large DV-AVI from WMM2 capture not working in PP1.0

[af895]

Ugh.

Hate to be the asker of newb questions but would like to know if anyone here has had this happen.

Captured a 90 minute clip in Windows Movie Maker 2, DV-AVI file (25MB/sec).

FYI: it was originally an SVHS master tape routed through the A/D pass through on my camera and then to the computer via Firewire. I used WMM2 for no other reason than "I could." It's quick, simple and has worked in the past.

The file plays fine in everything I've got on my computer.

Except Premiere Pro 1.0

...in which it gets to about 5 minutes and STOPS. The audio from that point sounds like if you put a CD player on pause (kind of a jut jut jut jut jut jut jutter...you know... for those of you who've worked in audio studios and you cue a CD up... sort of a scrub)...and the video is stuck on the last playable frame. I waited for it to conform the file so I don't think that's the issue.

I've done caps before in WMM2 - I have NO IDEA why with this one Premiere would fail EXCEPT possibly the file is too large - about 25GB. (yes, twenty five gigabytes).

Most of my past WMM2 DV25 caps have been only a few minutes each. This was the whole enchilada.

Once again, the file seems FINE. Though I have no idea how to use it, I do have Gspot installed if that'd help. (I glanced at it - it says the file length is fine? presumably that means it passes some kind of checksum?)

Further, the files plays perfectly start to stop in Windows Media Player or WMM2.

What am I missing here?

C.

[edDV]

Could it be your Premiere Pro scratch disk (Preferences) is too small for the file to load?

Best to place the original file on the scratch disk (on a different HDD from OS) if there is room so the data doesn't have to be copied from disk to disk.

Next time try capturing from Premiere Pro or use something like WinDV. I'd capture in smaller file segments. If you need complex optical scene detection, use scenalyzer.

[af895]

That wasn't likely the problem.

I had over 60 gigabytes of free space...

Ended up recapturing the whole thing in Premiere. (UGH)

I'll never use WMM2 for anything longer than a TV commercial... what a waste of time.

(Premiere worked fine with HUGE files I'd captured using it)

Thanks,
C.