I captured footage from the Canon Vixia HV40 camcorder in Pro CS 5.5 setting general preferences to "match source" on video and audio and "HDV" in project presets - the footage is in my project as 1440 1080 mpeg files. (1.33333). I can drag a clip into the source window, set in and out points but it won't let me drag it into the Program window or the Timeline and Pro crashes and shuts down. (Pro crashes and generates an error report, not my computer - a Mac- that crashes)
Are these files too big? They are dance videos and some of the clips run 25 minutes non stop. (but there are only 7 files not all that long and my cojmputer says I have plenty of disc space) . Also there seems to be no Timeline audio and video tracks available even though the program preferences are set for 3 tracks nor can I add tracks (greyed out) nor select the Timeline.
The file info says they have been captured in the above codec and are NTSC. I am pretty sure the camera menu was set to HDV when filmed. With no preferences made to interlaced or progressive or pal.... and since I selected match source would it make a difference if the video was shot in one codec and captured in another? Even though as I said, I chose "match source"...
anyone advise? dance on video