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green blobs on clips!
hello.. I am editing together a music video with source clips that are .avi files (all encoded the same – mpeg4 v1). When I view them in the preview they look perfectly fine, but when I add them to the timeline and play it back the clips have a strange green hue that comes and goes. the green is a bit pixelated. is this a codec problem or a settings problem or what? is this a common?
thanks a bunch!
-rhea
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5 Replies
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Premiere Pro is not designed to edit MPEG4 video. Get the source clips from the camera as DV AVI instead.
Steven
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well getting the original dv footage is not an option. I am making a montage using footage from a TV show which are .AVI files. Wait.. is it a problem that that they are AVI files but were encoded with mpeg4? Actually I have had more problem with premiere in the past handling AVI files encoded with divX (premiere would just crash). Usually converting those files to .mpeg fixed the problem. But this is a new problem.
is there a codec that I can recompress my avi files with that wouldn’t make premiere go wonky?(i was forced to do this because the audio rate was unstandard and premiere wouldn’t allow it to be imported, so i used virtualdub to recompress them and just deleted the audio entirely) Is there also a reason why it looks fine in preview but not when played back from the timeline? (leading me to believe its a settings problem)
please help! thanks
-rhea
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Previewing and editing are two different things.
As I said before, MPEG4 is the wrong choice. DV AVI is the best choice. What are you capturing the files with? Does it have the ability to capture as Type2 DV AVI?
Steven
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I suspect the clips he is using were either captured via a capture card or converted from DVD – both methods often use newer MPEG codecs to save space. A lot of DVD ripping programs use MPEG4 or DIVX, but still use the AVI wrapper.
As Steven said, Premiere is designed to work with DV-AVI primarily.
Anytime I have video in another format, I convert it to DV-AVI – the slight quality hit and time spent rendering is much better than the frustration of trying to get Premiere to play these other formats smoothly. You should be able to load the original files into Premiere, but drag them to the timeline and immediately export them as DV-AVI, then erase the original files.It kills me that the new consumer microdrive camcorders record to MPEG-4 – people are in for a surprise.
Mike
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wow, thanks a bunch! I will try that. It’s still a little frustrating that premiere works best with DV-AVI. Ive edited a dozen projects using all sorts of different codecs together and sometimes its just dandy and happy and sometimes it has weird complications but its always fixable (unlike this green blobs problem) However, Ive only previously used premiere 6.5 to edit stuff. Do you know anything about the difference between premiere 6.5 and premiere pro when it comes to codecs? I have a sneaking suspicion that I might not have these problems using premiere 6.5. (However Ive already edited half the movie so I don’t think I could switch over at this point) -_-
another problem im having using pro.. i preview the files to see the transitions and fades more clearly and have it run smoother, but it actually runs SLOWER! ARGH
Anyway, I will try exporting the files as DV-AVI and Ill post if it works out. Thank you!
PS.. I’m a ‘she’! ;D
-rhea
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