Color bar distortion in Illustrator

[Ralph Gould]

Vince,
I used the rectangle tool to build the color bars in Illustrator originally. I then placed the drawing into Premiere, and rendered it as a 30 second clip. I have tried converting it to MPEG2 and MPEG 2 Blue Ray with the same results. The group delay seems to vary between different colors related to the video formats. It will be worse between say red and magenta in 1080I/29.97 than it is in 720P/59.94. I’m stumped at this point. I’d be curious if this was fixed in CS5.
Ralph

[Ralph Gould]

I had an engineer from Adobe contact me after I sent the vectorscope screen shots to him in October 2010. He said it is a bug in the way Premiere is handling the file from Illustrator. I spoke with him last week. They were supposed to fix in CS 5.5, but the fix has been put off until another version. The group delay will be in all images created in Illustrator and placed in Premier. Probably not an issue with most production work, but it should be fixed.