ok, so maybe I shouldn’t presume so much… premiere doesn’t like flv files! I rather hastily found some free software that converts various types of media for you though. It’s a program called Prism, made by nch software. It was the only one I could find for free on the net – I’m skint, and don’t like buying things over the net yet anyways. The thing is… it all seemed to be going so well, but it doesn’t like converting the files very well.
Right enough, the little windows movie clip thing comes up and you can play the files… but the video and sound aren’t synced…This wouldn’t have been an issue though, as I was thinking about taking the sound out anyway (now I’ll have to!). This wasn’t an obvious problem at first though, as playing them through the system’s video player, it simply played the vid correctly at the speed it thought that should go, and the sound continued on after the video had stopped. Premiere however decides to try and sync them back together, and in doing so, jumping and repeating of the video to try and stretch it to the same length as the audio. I thought it may have been a problem converting from flv to avi, I tried outputting to mp4, (to then convert again if Premiere doesn’t like them either) but this had the same problem. Grr. I’ve now got to go through all the clips I’ve got, take the sound out and then go through them frame by frame, find the jumps, find out where they start and stop, and edit each video back together as seamlessly as possible.
When I’ve got all the videos back to the way they’re supposed to be, I’ll then have to look at time scaling and importance of the clip, and edit them all to fit within the piece’s timescale. Just when I thought the end of the woods were in sight as well!
