Capturing w/Premiere 6

[solokool]

I just captured about 1.5 minutes from my Sony DV camera. My question is when I saved it as an AVI file and then played it back it had dropped some of the audio. Also how come 1.5 minutes saved as 300 MB. Why so large?

Thank you for your help and time.

[googlioboy]

Check your audio settings on your camera and make sure they match the audio settings of your project in Premiere. Also, make sure you do frequent de-frags on the drive you're saving your video to---this will speed things up considerably. And make sure you close all other programs before you start Premiere. As to the size of your file, you should know that Premiere only captures in an uncompressed .avi file. If your hard drive you're saving your video to is set up with FAT-32, your files will be limited to 4Gb in length, which means you'll only be able to capture about 18 minutes of footage from your camera at a time. Hope this helps you out.

[solokool]

I checked my audio settings and they were 16 bit on the camera and in premiere. The drive was defrag last week and the project is saved to a seperate drive