Pr CS4 – screen capture edit

[Eddie Lotter]

1. What are the details of your source clip?
2. What are the details of your project settings?
3. What are the details of your export settings?

Cheers
Eddie

[Uri Soglowek]

Hi Eddie,
thanks for the fast respond.

this is the situation:

i recorded a screen capture clip with Sbapz Pro (but the same also happened with ScreenFlow) and save the clip to QT animation.

then i opened up premiere and edited the video in a sequence. i then exported the video to the media encoder and encoded it with the same settings – QT animation.
the sequence settings were –
Pixals aspect ration – square
Progressive scan
the same FPS as the recording
the same audio settings as the recording
video preview – QT animation

when i sent to the media encoder and renderd it with the same settings:
Pixals aspect ration – square
Progressive scan
the same FPS as the recording
the same audio settings as the recording
QT animation
i got horrible looking video. this does not happen with CS3 or cs2 and in-fact the same video rendered out as AVI with no compression has no problem

(needless to say i tried to render to QT with None chosen under Codec. this doesn’t work either.)

i have to admit i am new to Mac.

is there a way to render from Pr CS4 in the same fashion as in Pr CS3 – file>export>movie.
i never used the media encoder in the past but it looks like there is no other option in CS4.

thanks for the help.

uri

[Mike Wach]

Hello All,

I am having the same problem. I am using

Snapz Pro on Mac OSX Leopard
with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Adobe Media Encoder CS4

No matter what settings I try, all of my exports result in low quality, blurry, and/or distorted video. I have tried H.264, Quicktime, and even exporting a Targa image sequence. None of them seem to work. When exporting with Quicktime and the MPEG-4 compressor, the video exports successfully but is low quality/distorted. When I try to export using Quicktime and the “Animation” or “None” compressor settings, Adobe Media Encoder stalls at about 99% render completion. You press the pause and resume buttons as many times as you want but they don’t do anything. The render stays frozen at 99% infinitely. Pressing the ‘stop’ button simply crashes Adobe Media Encoder.

This problem is driving me crazy and I think its safe to say I’m interested in an alternative screen capture program. Snapz just doesn’t seem meant to be for editing with Premiere Pro CS4. Unless someone can please prove otherwise.

Attached below is my Adobe Media Encoder log…

-Mike Wach

Tue Mar 10 02:05:16 2009 : Queue Started

– Source File: /Users/Mike/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Meeting 04_1.prproj
– Output File: /Users/Mike/Desktop/Meeting 04/Meeting 04.mp4
– Preset Used: Screen Capture 1024
– Video: NTSC, 1024×768, 29.97 [fps], Progressive
– Audio: AAC, 192 [kbps], 48 kHz, Stereo
– Bitrate: VBR, 1 Pass, Target 3.00, Max 6.00 [Mbps]
– Encoding Time: 00:37:04
Tue Mar 10 02:45:12 2009 : File Successfully Encoded

Tue Mar 10 02:45:29 2009 : Queue Stopped

Tue Mar 10 03:06:46 2009 : Queue Started

– Source File: /Users/Mike/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Meeting 04_2.prproj
– Output File: /Users/Mike/Desktop/Meeting 04/Meeting 04_1.mp4
– Preset Used: Custom
– Video: No Summary Available
– Audio: AAC, 192 [kbps], 48 kHz, Stereo
– Bitrate: No Summary Available
– Encoding Time: 00:00:34
Tue Mar 10 03:11:06 2009 : File Successfully Encoded

Tue Mar 10 03:11:08 2009 : Queue Stopped

Tue Mar 10 03:31:42 2009 : Queue Started

– Source File: /Users/Mike/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Meeting 04_4.prproj
– Output File: /Users/Mike/Desktop/Meeting 04/Meeting 04.mov
– Preset Used: Custom
– Video: 1024×768, 29.97 [fps], Progressive, Quality 100
– Audio: 48000 Hz, Stereo, 16 bit
– Bitrate: MPEG-4 Video

Tue Mar 10 11:28:07 2009 : Queue Paused

Tue Mar 10 11:28:09 2009 : Queue Resumed

Tue Mar 10 11:42:23 2009 : Queue Started

– Source File: /Users/Mike/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Meeting 04_5.prproj
– Output File: /Users/Mike/Desktop/Meeting 04/Meeting 04.mp4
– Preset Used: Apple iPod Video Large
– Video: NTSC, 640×480, 30 [fps], Progressive
– Audio: AAC, 128 [kbps], 48 kHz, Stereo
– Bitrate: VBR, 1 Pass, Target 1.00, Max 1.40 [Mbps]

Tue Mar 10 12:02:08 2009 : Queue Paused

Tue Mar 10 12:06:23 2009 : Queue Resumed
– Encoding Time: 00:39:02
Tue Mar 10 12:23:58 2009 : File Successfully Encoded

Tue Mar 10 12:24:16 2009 : Queue Stopped

Tue Mar 10 12:56:21 2009 : Queue Started

– Source File: /Users/Mike/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Meeting 04_6.prproj
– Output File: /Users/Mike/Desktop/Meeting 04/Meeting 04.mov
– Preset Used: Custom
– Video: 1024×768, 10 [fps], Progressive, Quality 100
– Audio: 48000 Hz, Stereo, 16 bit
– Bitrate: Animation

Tue Mar 10 13:11:15 2009 : Queue Paused

Tue Mar 10 13:11:18 2009 : Queue Resumed

Tue Mar 10 13:12:05 2009 : Queue Paused

Tue Mar 10 13:13:22 2009 : Queue Resumed

Tue Mar 10 13:25:08 2009 : Queue Started

– Source File: /Users/Mike/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Meeting 04_7.prproj
– Output File: /Users/Mike/Desktop/Meeting 04/Meeting 04.mov
– Preset Used: Custom
– Video: 1024×768, 10 [fps], Progressive, Quality 100
– Audio: 48000 Hz, Stereo, 16 bit
– Bitrate: None

Tue Mar 10 15:32:28 2009 : Queue Started
– Encoding Time: 65:17:35
Tue Mar 10 15:35:26 2009 : File Successfully Encoded

– Source File: /Users/Mike/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Meeting 04_8.prproj
– Output File: /Users/Mike/Desktop/Meeting 04/Meeting 04.tga
– Preset Used: Custom
– Video: 1024×768, Progressive
– Audio:
– Bitrate:

Tue Mar 10 15:35:27 2009 : Queue Stopped

Tue Mar 10 16:13:12 2009 : Queue Started

– Source File: /Users/Mike/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Meeting 04_9.prproj
– Output File: /Users/Mike/Desktop/Meeting 04/Targa Sequence/Meeting 04.tga
– Preset Used: Custom
– Video: 1024×768, 10 [fps], Progressive
– Audio:
– Bitrate:
– Encoding Time: 00:14:14
Tue Mar 10 16:29:02 2009 : File Successfully Encoded

Tue Mar 10 16:29:07 2009 : Queue Stopped