Hi everyone!
I havent done any serious video editing so I am quite new to setting it all up. I really wanted to do a video montage of old home movies for my wedding next month. So please help! Basically I have used my canon 5d mkii to film my tv and capture some old movies (the quality is quite good actually). Some clips are very short, some are a bit longer (>45 seconds).
Once recorded, I download the .mov files onto my external hard drive (F drive). This is a western digital 1tb USB3 drive. Model number WDBPCK0010BBK-EESN. This came formatted to NTFS. My main adobe suite is installed on my 64gb ssd crucial m4 drive. I only have 4gb of free space left on this which is why i dont store media on it.
The problem starts when trying to import to adobe preimiere pro cs6. If I download the .mov files from the camera to the F drive, then go into premiere pro and click import, the smaller clips import fine but a message saying header error or corrupt file appears and it wont import the larger files (>45seconds).
This is where it gets strange (in my opinion). If I download the files from the camera to my C drive, then import to premiere pro, all the files work, even the big ones! No errors at all. Also, if I transfer the .movs from my C: drive, to my F; drive, and then import them from my F; drive into premiere pro they still work. No errors again. So it just doesnt work if they were imported from the camera to F; drive. I dont understand why :/
My scratch disks are set to F drive.
What is the difference between importing from my camera to C: drive or F: drive? Why does that effect premiere pro?
Is this a scratch disk problem?
Is this because my F drive isnt fast enough?
Is it becuase i need to transode the .mov files first? I was under the impressions this wasn't need with CS6?
I dont use a graphics card... I just use my i72600k and z68 mobo combo.
What should I do? I could afford one more new hard drive, and I wouldnt mind buying a new ssd and getting a bigger one, and swapping it with my current ssd so the new one holds the operating system and use the 64gb just for scratch files / rendering? However I am very poor right now with paying for the wedding so if there is another option that would be great.
Thanks everyone,
Craig
