About spanned clips, Importing still images – Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 User Manual
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About spanned clips
When a shot or take is recorded requiring more than the file size limit of a medium, a file-based camcorder starts
another file, and continues recording the shot to that file without interruption. This is referred to as clip spanning
because the shot spans more than one file or clip. Similarly, a file-based camcorder sometimes spans a shot across clips
on different cards or disks, if the camcorder has more than one card or disk loaded. It records the shot until it runs out
of room on the first medium, then starts a new file on the next medium with available space, and continues recording
the shot to it. Although a single shot or take can be recorded to a group of multiple spanned clips, it is designed to be
treated as a single clip.
For P2 and XDCAM EX, Premiere Pro imports all of the spanned clips within a single shot or take as a single clip. It
will import all the clips within a shot on a card when you select any one of them, provided none of the spanned clips
is missing and the relevant XML is present. When one or more spanned clips are missing from a shot, Premiere Pro
will import one or more of them depending on where the missing clips fall within the shot.
To import a group of spanned clips, select one of them to import all of them. If you select more than one spanned clip,
you will import duplicates of the whole group of spanned clips as duplicate clips in the Project panel.
If the group of spanned clips itself spans two P2 or XDCAM EX cards, copy the full directory trees from them both to
same-level folders on the hard disk before importing. For P2 media only, you can alternatively import clips spanning
two P2 cards if both cards are simultaneously mounted to your computer.
Importing still images
You can import still images with frame sizes up to 4096 x 4096 pixels, individually or in groups. The size and aspect
ratio of imported still images are affected by the same factors that affect other imported assets, for example, whether
they use square pixels. Premiere Pro supports 4-channel assets at 16-bits per channel as well as 8-bits per channel files.
You can import individual still images into Premiere Pro or import a numbered sequence of still images as a sequence.
You can import still images from Adobe applications such as Photoshop and Illustrator. For information about the
still-image formats that Premiere Pro imports, see “
File formats supported for import
An imported still image uses the duration specified in the Still Image preferences. You can change the duration of a
still image in a sequence.
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