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Crashing on corrupted frame?
Adobe Premiere CS4, Windows 7
I’ve gotten some footage on what is apparently an old miniDV tape. A couple of times in the fifty minutes, a frame or three will go pixelated, then a totally red frame or two. I’m guessing these are bad lengths of tape, and I can edit around them IF I can keep Premiere from crashing every time it hits one. I’ve tried dropping the footage into a sequence and encoding to some other format, but Media Encoder chokes too. So far, I’ve only been able to render the first 12 seconds, then:
– Preset Used: HDTV 720p 29.97 High Quality
– Video: NTSC, 1280×720, 29.97 drop frame [fps], Progressive, Quality 4.0
– Audio: 384 [kbps], 48 kHz, 16 bit, Stereo, MPEG
– Bitrate: VBR, 1 Pass, Min 4.00, Target 10.00, Max 18.50 [Mbps]
– Encoding Time: 00:00:14
4/22/2014 3:01:43 PM : Encoding Failed
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Error compiling movie.Unknown error.
—————————————–I’ve tried different formats but no luck.
The source format is m2t. I’m converting to MPG to see if that makes a difference, using FormatFactory, but I wondered if anyone else had encountered this and how they handled it.
Thanks in advance!
– Bill in KC
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4 Replies
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Hi Bill,
How did you capture the footage? It can be either DV or HDV footage on the miniDV cassette. I noticed your setting is for 720p, which is HD, but most HDV is 1080i, so whether the footage is DV or HDV, 720p is likely incorrect.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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Captured by Premiere. It’s an older camera (JVC GR-HD1), so 1280x720p is correct.
Any ideas about getting past the corrupted frames?
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Ah yes, the old JVC – I believe they were the only manufacturer to ever offer the HDV 720p format. Sony, Canon, Panasonic all went with the 1080i standard.
Could maybe try recapturing using other software, such as the free “HDVsplit”. Or with Premiere, capture with “Scene Detect” enabled and that might create new clips at each break/corruption.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
I’m usually setting a camera and recording an entire program in a single run (three cameras, spaced around the auditorium) so I hadn’t thought of using scene detection! Brilliant. I also didn’t know about HDVsplit. Trying it now. Thanks!
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