Premiere Pro CC Project file import errors

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/1/2014, 10:31 PM

Hey Guys, I was looking into putting a very large Premiere Project into Vegas to see how well it handles the scale, and I wanted to know if you guys might have any experience with Vegas opening 7.2.1 Premiere CC files? I get an error whenever I try and do it.

Error message I get in case this helps anyone?:
Exception Message: '', hexadecimal value 0x1F, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 1.
Stack Trace: at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowInvalidChar(Int32 pos, Char invChar)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseRootLevelWhitespace()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(String filename)
at VegasScripts.AEImporter.Import(String fileName, Vegas vegas, LogCallback log, Action createUndoBlock, Action disposeUndoBlock)
at VegasScripts.ProjectInterchangeImporter.HandleInvokedInternal(String openDialogName, String openDialogExt, String undoBlockName, IImporter importer)

Comments

Cliff Etzel wrote on 2/2/2014, 1:04 AM

I"m getting similar issues trying to import projects from PPro CS6 (similar error type msgs) - seems Vegas still isn't up to working in a mixed NLE environment. I keep wanting/trying to like Vegas but this is kind of a deal breaker for me... :-/

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/2/2014, 3:34 PM

I don't get any error's with CS6 projects, I just haven't converted any of those to PC first (I work on Adobe mac products in my TV job). I just wanted to see how well I could make some of the work move over to Vegas if I wanted to, but CC didn't seem to play well for me.

Dave H.

Terje wrote on 2/3/2014, 3:43 AM

The error message is easy enough, it says your Premiere Pro file is not an XML file since the first character ix 0x1F. It seems like Premiere is saving the project file with an invisible separation character as the first character in the file. If so, this is actually a Premiere Pro error since it is saving an XML file with illegal characters in it.

You can try to download an editor that shows invisible characters, like Notepad++, open the Premiere Pro file in this editor, remove the offending character (it is the first character in the file) and try to import again.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/3/2014, 2:45 PM

a very helpful response Terje, thanks!

Dave H.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/3/2014, 7:16 PM

Alright, so there is clearly a different form of project file ( which would excplain why CC has MUCH MUCH smaller file sizes ). On the left is a project from CC, and the right shows a project from CS6

Dave H.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/4/2014, 1:14 PM

bump, anyone got any ideas here?

videoITguy wrote on 2/4/2014, 2:45 PM

check the end of thread:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=881927

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/4/2014, 3:18 PM

that may or may not be the same problem I'm having, I'm trying to import from Premiere Pro, not export to it for the time being.

Dave H.

Adam QA SCS wrote on 2/4/2014, 5:55 PM

FrigidNDEditing, the bug has been entered into the database for consideration of being fixed in a future release. Thanks for notifying us of this issue.

videoITguy, this issue is different. This issue is exporting from Premiere and importing into Vegas. The other issue was exporting out of Vegas and into Premiere. Thanks for trying to help though.

Adam

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/5/2014, 10:36 PM

Thank you Adam, I hope it can get fixed soon, but either way, I appreciate the communication!

Dave H.

Mixperience wrote on 2/7/2014, 3:54 AM

The new premiere 7 project is .gz compressed. So as a workaround you can uncompress it and then the import into Vegas will work.

UmbilicalBungee wrote on 8/7/2014, 9:18 AM

Any progress on fixing this? Did it get fixed in v13? I'm still on 12.

Erni wrote on 8/7/2014, 2:42 PM

I have some success exporting an AAF file in Premiere and open (not importing) the AAF in Vegas Pro 13.

My two cents.

Sorry for my bad english.

Erni

Terje wrote on 8/9/2014, 4:48 PM

>> Any progress on fixing this?

Just uncompress the Premiere file as mentioned above. All is fine.

homeworld wrote on 11/11/2014, 8:36 PM

I hoping there's a solution to this. I can't open Premiere files in Vegas 12 because I get the same error.

Exception Message: '', hexadecimal value 0x1F, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 1.
Stack Trace: at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowInvalidChar(Int32 pos, Char invChar)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseRootLevelWhitespace()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(String filename)
at VegasScripts.AEImporter.Import(String fileName, Vegas vegas, LogCallback log, Action createUndoBlock, Action disposeUndoBlock)
at VegasScripts.ProjectInterchangeImporter.HandleInvokedInternal(String openDialogName, String openDialogExt, String undoBlockName, IImporter importer)

homeworld wrote on 11/11/2014, 8:58 PM

Even after unzipping I get this error:

Exception Message: startIndex cannot be larger than length of string.
Parameter name: startIndex
Stack Trace: at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
at VegasScripts.VegasCommon.GetImportMediaPath(String pathInImportedFile, List`1 mediaLocations)
at VegasScripts.AEImporter.ReadChildren(XmlElement elt, MediaBin parent)
at VegasScripts.AEImporter.Import(String fileName, Vegas vegas, LogCallback log, Action createUndoBlock, Action disposeUndoBlock)
at VegasScripts.ProjectInterchangeImporter.HandleInvokedInternal(String openDialogName, String openDialogExt, String undoBlockName, IImporter importer)