Adobe Premiere (A DISSAPOINTMENT)

[Eric Jurgenson]

Jason,

you’ve got so much going on in this clip, it’s hard to tell what is a technical issue and what is intentional. But let’s presume that this is intended to be a straightforward edit with cuts and dissolves, and all the positional and temporal jumps, and the wierd color transitions are caused by a glitch in the machine.

In that case, you are running Premiere on the wrong system, dude. None of this stuff is normal, and I’ve never come across this type of problem, personally or in the forums.

In fact, if I weren’t a naturally trusting soul, I would suspect that you are pulling our leg.

[Jason Harris]

eric

no pulling of the leg, it is indeed a sad day when we cannot produce a video (i didnt say it was simple at all) with some fx, the jumping and jittering has to be in the output, the source files dont show that at all!

[Eric Addison]

Jason,

I’m with Eric – I’ve been using CS4 since it was released and have not seen it produce anything like that.

system used (FYI this is a system that is not available to the general public yet, our parent company does a lot of work with the GOV so we have some systems we test for them on occasion)

I have to wonder if that has something to do with why you are having some trouble. It could be caused by some conflict with something in your system.

XP on all systems (NO VISTA) we have enough issues with ADOBE without M$ global F#$%up being in the mix!

You know, I’ve heard this from so many people, but I’ve got Vista 32 on my laptop and Vista 64 on my edit workstation and they work great. PPro has no problems with them, and I’ve had no real issues with anything else as well. I think that a lot of the problems with Vista have been addressed.

I watched the clip and can see what you’re talking about – if it doesn’t jump like that in the raw footage, then something is happening in the encode…I’ve just no idea what. Could it be that there was a bad install?

Maybe I missed it, but did you say what format the original footage was? Also, you matched those settings in the output (i.e. the frame rate’s the same, etc.)?

—Eric

[Jason Harris]

erics

i agree it MIGHT not be a vista/xp thing, and the specs on this pc are off the chart, but we have used the same source footage on pcs that are more MAINSTREAM with the same results

heres the missing info for you

SOURCE VIDEO

ALL CLIPS
Frame rate (25.0 fps)
codec MPG
video size (640X480 (1.0)
audio 32000 hz compressed mono

hope this helps as this is the output settings

Frame rate (25.0 fps)
codec WMV,FLV,MPG,AVI (tried them all)

WMV for example
video size (720X480, 25 fps
audio 4 kbps, 8 khz mono
compressed, VBR, 2 pass, avg 1500.00 [kpbs]
win media codec 9
two pass video

might add soem light to the subject

lol

wait till you see what vegas did with the same footage and the TIME shaved using it!

I AM AN OPTIMISTIC person if this is me screwing up ill be humbled, but i need some guidance, im all ears

not condemning anything yet!

[Eric Addison]

Is there any way you could post the source video some where for download? Even just a short clip would be useful in that some of us could encode it and see if we get the same results…maybe try https://www.yousendit.com/ to pass along the file…

—Eric

[Jason Harris]

eric

yes i agree with you about the fact that source files could help

you can find a zip of them at

https://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=fe481f081fd73cb20f83d91f6dff7c38e04e75f6e8ebb871

I really would like to continue working with adobe, it is unlike them to have glitches, and i do love the interface, in the past i have done some great work with them.

I tried vegas pro studio for like 3 hours today, but its very clunky (to each his own) and not overall impressive, loved the way premiere made projects come to life, if i can get this snafu figured out i will probably return to CS3 its more stable, but has all the same features.

Vegas had a god ugly GUI to it!

let me know if you need anything else!

[Jon Barrie]

640×480 with 25fps is not a standard format,
how was this footage recorded?
I think there is something going on with the MPEG-2 style of recording (long GOP) conflicting in the export process.
Have you tried to reinstall?

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jason Harris]

jon

i realize its not “industry standard” but this really would be a poor excuse for adobe not to handle it, adobe is supposed to be so “all powerful” that it handles EVERYTHING

reinstalls do not work, and are a waste of time (but we did it 5 times already on each machine, will not go through another unless given very good cause as to why)

it was on a sony cam thats all i know sorry

if adobe cannot “handle” such a simple request, can you give me an idea of a software where they actually let you edit footage on such a simple level

thanks again

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Jason,
Please understand that we are all stumped by this. we are only trying to help. asking questions is how we get a clearer picture on the situation.
When I say 640×480 with 25fps is not a standard format, I mean no camera to my knowledge shoots NTSC frame size with PAL frame rate. Not that the camera is not professional.
I’ve worked with Adobe Products for years and they do support more formats than most, I’m downloading your link to the original footage. I’ll get back to you about the findings.
– Jon

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jason Harris]

jon

thanks for hanging in with me

as i said f you find anything be sure to let me know, i just ran into a brick wall trying to load avid, i am sure the footage is not “par”” with pro, but we do with what we have, as for ntsc and pal all i know about that is the stuff on settings on a dvd player lol

i know that sounds stupid but alas, my skills come from the audio realm

i can do the vid thing but hangups are painful