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CS4 imported footage unwanted speed up issues
I just recently switched from premiere pro CS3 to CS4. I imported a recently worked on sequence that I was working on in CS3 into CS4 and all of the AVI’s are super sped up for the beginning and then its a freeze frame of the last frame for the last two thirds of the clip. This is the same for all the AVI’s in the sequence. I tried to re-import these AVI’s that worked in CS3 and they are all having this same speed up issue. Why would the clips work for CS3 but not CS4?
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I would be most useful if you could offer some detail. We don’t know the video format or the frame rate, or whether or not you may have tried both opening the old project and importing the old project to see if that makes a difference…etc, etc.
So…furnish some background and I’d guess someone might recognize the issue, and possibly offer a solution.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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The video format is AVI, no codec. The frame rate is 29.97fps. I’ve tried importing the footage (individual clips), and they all have the same speeding up and then freezing framing problem. And I’ve tried importing and opening the project. Would there be something wrong with the AVI files that wouldn’t appear in CS3?
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Well…there is typically some compression…are you saying these are uncompressed AVIs? I assume they are massively large?
You still didn’t mention the frame size, what your sequence settings are in CS4…what they were in CS3…are you trying to play the edited sequence from CS3 or just trying to load the media and just play it back? …and again, how are you loading this material? Are you just opening the CS3 project in CS4 or are you importing the project?
My personal intuition says that you have a media cache database or media from CS3 that CS4 isn’t liking…but I need some information to be of any real help.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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I took the MTS footage (1920×1080) from my camera and converted it as uncompressed avi files (although I didnt change the resolution to 1280×720). At this point I’m just trying to import this footage and make it playback properly.
I tried importing footage that wasnt edited in the cs3 project into cs4, and it is still having this weird speed up issue.
Is there a certain file type that I can convert to from MTS that would not lose quality, but still play properly in CS4?
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So it was AVCHD?
You did…or did not convert to 1280×720? You said “didn’t” but seemed to mention it for some reason…
If these files are uncompressed, you be running about 7.5 GBs per minute…yes? 1280×720 uncompressed would be about 3.5 GBs per minute.
Any files that play back in CS3 should play back in CS4 unless you have one of these freeware codec packs installed…several of these codec packages hose up multiple things with video editing sofware.
My recommendation would be to use MPEG Streamclip to convert the files to XDcamHDEX MPEG2 footage or something like that so it runs properly if you are really running into an issue. CS5 handles AVCHD pretty competently but CS4 just wasn’t optimized for it.
CS5.5 is current for a couple months yet (Adobe has made their update calendar public knowledge), so CS4 is getting pretty long in the tooth in computer software years… particularly with what Adobe has been doing with development. If you aren’t staying with CS4 because you are restricted to a 32 bit machine at this time, I’d recommend considering a jump.
Let me know if any of that is helpful.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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