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Premeire Pro time-line stutter
Here’s a new one…for me. I tranferred an hour of VHS consumer footage to my PREMEIRE PRO time-line. I did some minor editing, corrected the video level and some bad color. Everything was fine, till I started transferring it to my stand-alone DVD recorder to make a DVD from the footage. Now, in certain sections of the footage the video stutters, almost like a staccato, slow motion. The audio remains fine. The stutter also seems to happen at the same spots, every few minutes. However, if I go back-up on the time-line and re-play a ‘just played’ bad section the videop plays back fine, until that is, the NEXT bad section, then it acts up again! This has me buffaloed. I ran a file error check (which said OK) and also tried ‘de-fragging’ the drive. The latter is also acting a little strange…it says it’s defragged, but all the blue files are NOT lined up on the left like they should be. I have 105 GB free space on the Western Digital drive, so it’s not full.
Has anyone run into this problem? Do I have a drive going bad? Or, is it something simpler than that (I hope.)
FINAL QUESTION…IF THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH MY DRIVE, HOW CAN I SAVE THE PROJECT?
The project is due today and I’m out of patience!
Thanks!
Wendall
Filmmaker 20
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7 Replies
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Dont understand the blue file reference.
Any virus scan running…spyware app?
To check a drives health, right click on My Computer and choose Manage. Expand Storage in the left pane and select Disk Management…what is the Status of the drive? -
Thanks for responding Mike. I was formerly Filmmaker 42, but couldn’t figure out how to keep that moniker and change my e-mail in my account…so, I’m now Filmmaker 20!
Anyway, by blue I meant the ‘contiguous’ files being grouped together. And, no I am not running any virus scanning program. The computer is not connected to the internet, it’s only used to edit video with.
Regarding ‘de-fragging’, when I ‘analyze’ the drive it says de-frag, but when I actually de-frag it’s been going up to perhaps 8% or so, then ending. The window whould say the drive was de-fragged. However, the AFTER window (with the red, white & blue bars in it) would look almost like the BEFORE de-fragg window, so I don’t think it has really been de-fragging properly. I shut the computer down after you wrote and re-started it. I’m de-fragging once more. THIS time it has actually gone up to 29%, so I have my fingers crossed. It appears that more of the blue bars are getting larger, so that’s a good sign. It takes a while since the dirve is 300 GB.
May I ask, IF the drive was NOT defragged properly before, could that cause the ‘stutter’?
Thanks.
Wendall
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Mike,
I forgot to answer your question regading the the Status of the drive. I checked in My Computer etc. and it said it was “healthy”.
Thanks.
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A drive with large files might not defrag completely but this should not cause your issues. Do you have only one drive? Suggest updating video and sound card drivers.
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Mike,
Thanks for the tip. I think I will indeed update the drivers. Meantime, the problem has been solved. After much trial & tribulation ‘de-fragging’ (learned a lot about that process) the drive is clean and now the video plays back just fine. So, obviously it’s been a long time since I last de-fragged. I learned a time-consuming lesson…the hard way, DE-FRAG OFTEN! I’m now back on track and I really appreciate your imput.
Wendall
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You should get DiskKeeper. It defrags a hundred times as fast as the windows defrager and does a better job of it also. It’s cheep too.
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Thanks for the tip. I’ll check out Diskeeper You’re right about the Windows defragger. It took forever!
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