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Premiere Pro - Insufficient Media Error - Please help!

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September 14, 2009
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Hi, everyone!

I'm working in Adobe Premiere Pro (CS3), taking 3 thirty second video clips, and putting them together, along with an audio track, to make a 1:30 video background with music.

I'm trying to apply a short cross dissolve to each of the video clips. When I do, I get an error message that there is insufficient media and some frames will be repeated.

This is a mystery to me, because each of the thirty second clips is clearly longer than the cross dissolve transition.

The transitions seem to play fine in Premiere, but do not appear to show up in any render so far (I've tried .avi, .mov, and .wmv)

Any idea why I might be getting this error, and how I can correct the problem?

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Correct answer the_wine_snob

Thank you, Hunt! This is helpful, but my clips are longer than my transition in terms of duration.

I there any way I can "add" handles?

Our video editors are tied up on other projects, so it's up to me to figure this out and finish up this project for the client.

Any help you can give is most appreciated!!!

my clips are longer than my transition in terms of duration.
I there any way I can "add" handles?

The full Duration of the Clips is long enough, but your Handles are not. These are "created" when you set the In & Out Points on the Clip.

If your Clip has a tiny triangle at the Head, and/or Tail, that means that it has zero Frames as Handles. Reset the In & Out Points to get the Handles.

Good luck,

Hunt

danielv37965507

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Ah yes, Premiere Pro... the program you have to jump through hoops to perform the simplest of task. There is always some fix or trick to just to get it to work.

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RayWilliam1970

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As a Premiere noobie who has struggled to find a simple explanation of handles this thread has been invaluable. An oldie but a goodie.

Thanks!

Ann Bens

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Insufficient media error means your clips do not have handles.

Trim of 15 frames of the left clip on the right side and 15 frames on the left side of the right clip.

Then your transition will work properly and no error message,

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RejflyAuthor

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Thank you, I will try that.

the_wine_snobCorrect answer

Inspiring

Thank you, Hunt! This is helpful, but my clips are longer than my transition in terms of duration.

I there any way I can "add" handles?

Our video editors are tied up on other projects, so it's up to me to figure this out and finish up this project for the client.

Any help you can give is most appreciated!!!

my clips are longer than my transition in terms of duration.
I there any way I can "add" handles?

The full Duration of the Clips is long enough, but your Handles are not. These are "created" when you set the In & Out Points on the Clip.

If your Clip has a tiny triangle at the Head, and/or Tail, that means that it has zero Frames as Handles. Reset the In & Out Points to get the Handles.

Good luck,

Hunt

Harm_Millaard

Inspiring

Start reading about handles. The help file is a good place to start. And get some basic education in video editing if you want to use PR. Consumer applications do not have this steep learning curve and may serve you better.

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Philnolan_3d

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You know Harm I've read a number of your posts including some of your replies to me and in pretty much all of them you've come off as a jerk, contributer or not. Telling him to go study video editing is not helpful at all. I've used a number of other pro video editing programs and I've never had to do this in order to make a cross dissolve work, I just drop it in between two clips and it just works, unless I want it to work differently than a normal cross dissolve is supposed to, then I can change it. Heck even older versions of Premiere didn't require this step. Regardless of how Premiere works telling someone to go read the manual or go learn video editing is not what these forums are for, they're called support forums after all.

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excited_Genie16B8

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Telling him to go study video editing is not helpful at all.

That depends. If he does actually go off and study video and can then perform the task better, then it really was helpful.

I've used a number of other pro video editing programs and I've never had to do this in order to make a cross dissolve work

Yes, you have. Any proper transition needs handles. This is a universal concept, and applies to all editors, all media, and all software programs. Some programs, Premiere included, may try and 'cheat' the transition by repeating frames or with some other method, but that is not then a proper transition.

Heck even older versions of Premiere didn't require this step.

Yes, they have. All NLEs always have, and always will.

telling someone to go read the manual or go learn video editing is not what these forums are for

I would argue that Premiere Pro, and hence these forums, are for those who have already learned video editing.

First lean, then do. This applies to any activity. Those who try and skip step one and show up here looking for help do often meet with some backlash.

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