CS5: capture occasional wrong size clips

[Vince Becquiot]

My guess is you’ll have to capture the HDV clips using a DV CAM playback unit that supports HDV.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Jim Sphar]

Vince,

Thanks for responding. The material recorded is not HDV, it is NTSC DV Widescreen, 720×480 PAR 1.21.

–Jim Sphar

[Vince Becquiot]

Sorry, I should have read a couple more times: -)

Was the footage exported by someone else before you got it?

The footage is simply square pixels 4:3. 720x.9091=655. If you are having issues with it displaying wrong in Premiere, just go into your interpret settings for the particular clips and change the PAR to square.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Jim Sphar]

Vince,

Thanks again for responding to my problem. No joy here, either — the tape was recorded on DSR 1800 decks, and comes in 4:3. Since it was shot for widescreen, I go to Interpret Footage on each clip and conform it to D1/DV NTSC Widescreen (1.2121).

Nine of the 11 batch-captured tapes came in at DV resolution, 720×480, and conformed to widescreen properly. Two of the clips were captured from the tape at 1280×480, and conformed in PP to 655×480.

This was clearly an error in the CS5 capture software. The solution was to re-capture the two clips, and re-capturing them corrected the error.

I will be reporting this problem to Adobe, and appreciate your attempts to help.

–Jim Sphar

[Rob Jackson]

I am having a similar issue. My captured clips (same tape, captured 1 after the other) show up in my project as either 720×480 or 873×480. I didn’t change any settings between clips or exit the capture window. It just assigned the clips different properties. Weird.

PPro CS5 on a MacBook.

[Rob Jackson]

And to make things slightly odder, although I have 2 different frame sizes within PPro, if I look at the files in the Finder, I have 1280×480, 720×480, and 872×480. My project only says 873×480 and 720×480.

[Matt Woodham]

Hi guys,

I’ve been having this same issue with CS5 – my PAL clips are capturing at either 720×576, 786×576, 1049×576 or 1280×576 – it seems that 4:3 randomly goes to 786×576 and 16:9 to 1280×576.

I’ve got the same issue as you, Rob Jackson, where the information for the files in finder don’t match the info in Premiere.

I’ve just captured three entire tapes of a concert (shot on a PD170 @ 16×9 in-camera)- in premiere’s Project window I’m being told tape 1 is 720×576, tape 2 720×576 and tape 3 1049×576. In finder however, I’m told tape 1 is 720×576, tape 2 1280×576 and tape 3 1280×576.

Very confusing. Should I just head back to PPro 2.0? At least I never had stupid problems with that little guy…