Error on .avi with 0 length

[PAPatFan]

Hoping someone can help me out. New member having some trouble.

I recently took video with my Sony DV cam that I have succesfully captured and imported the media into PE4. This was the first time, however, I tried a new function of the camera taking time-lapse video over a period of time. The resulting capture was about 100 .avi's most of which had a length of 1 second but a fair amount having 0 seconds. PE4 gives me an error every time I try to work woth the "video" that is 0 seconds.

My question is this: Can I change the properties of the affected files in PE4 to given it "length" either by changing the frame rate or some other property? What will be the best/fastest way of fixing these files so I may use them in PE4?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[Steve Grisetti]

Hi, PAP. Welcome to Muvipix.

Without knowing more about your camera and how it works, it's hard to say what's going on with your video.

Are you sure it's saving your video as one-second AVIs? I'd think, for time-lapse, it would be saving individual frames as JPEGs. Hmm.

Regardless, try importing your clips into a Windows MovieMaker project instead of Premiere Elements. At the very least, you'll be able to see what the files are actually. You may also be able to combine the clips into a large file and export it from MovieMaker as a DV-AVI, which you'll be able to edit further in Premiere Elements.

[PAPatFan]

Steve, I knew I could count on you to try this problem on. Although, I have never posted, your answers to other questions have been right on the money.

I have a Sony DCR-H96 DV Camcorder. The function is a menu setting on the standard camera-rcord mode. It's called SMTH INT. REC and has created a bunch of video files - see the properties file attached.

In regards to your note about the format I think it does do JPEGS in some other mode. I have never used Movie Maker (I'm a PE guy) but will give it a shot and let you know what I find out.

Thanks again.
PAPatFan (Tried to write Pennsylvania Patriots Fan but looking at it now it does read PAP!)

[PAPatFan]

Steve, it looks like Windows Movie Maker with a DVI export did the trick. I won't be using this feature anymore though as the camera also has a standard time-lapse function producing JPEG's that will be a LOT easier to use.

Thanks for the help.

[Steve Grisetti]

Glad I could help, Pat Fan!