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Premiere tripping on footage captured on screen
I’m attempting to capture some on-screen clips of our engineers working with their CAD software to be used in a DVD. I’ve settled on using CamStudio for the capturing. Among the few codecs it offers is “Microsoft video 1,” which is the only one that doesn’t result in a choppy video.
We’ve captured several video clips in this fashion and it appears fine if played with a stand-alone player. When I bring them into Premiere (CS3), however, the video appears extremely choppy and generally mangled. This is the case before & after rendering/encoding.
The only solution I’ve come up with is to use VirtualDub to basically remove any/all compression before bringing it into Premiere. While this works, it results in VERY large files that aren’t very manageable. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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Does not Cam Studio offer export as Techsmith Screen capture codec or Full frames uncompressed?
Camtasia does and Premiere can edit the Techsmith stuff. -
I have the same problem in After Effects (CS3). I posted a question about this some days ago, but I can’t find my post, so I guess I made a mistake or two.
Anyway, this is what my result looks like:
https://www.hoodwings.com/testarea/ae_twitch.movIs it the same problem for you Joel?
Switching codecs, or even file format, doesn’t seem to work. But I’ve used Camstudio for years and it’s always worked before, first I thought I screwed up the settings, but same thing on different computers, even after clean install.
Any thoughts appreciated!
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I was getting a similiar distortion on Premiere. Although for me it was more of a “skipping” then a “shaking.”
At any rate, I finally resolved the issue by using CamStudio and the Lagarith lossless video codec to capture my footage. You can find it here: https://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html.
Good luck!
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Forgot to mention… If you do use that codec you’ll likely want to check the “enable null frames” option in the configuration for screen captures.
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