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Premiere CS4 Source Monitor woes
Looking for some help with the following problem..
Whenever I import an AVI into Premiere CS4 and open it in the source monitor it goes catastrophically out of sync, that is if the file plays at all. At times the video plays at turbo speed whereas the underlying sound seems normal. In other cases the frames play at near standstill speeds..
Another example.. I open a movie running at an hour – I move the slider in the source monitor from beginning to end and it displays maybe a minute or 2 from the whole thing?! (Making a sequence and dragging the clip in there does the exact same thing.)
The media I’m using is run of the mill AVIs encoded with DIVX and/or XVID (Think Family Guy episodes) I tried cutting some sections out in VirtualDUB mod (direct stream copy, with no sound) but this is not making the problem go away. Even tried re-encoding some samples (either in DIVX or XVID) .. 🙁
In the past I have used CS3 to manipulate all sorts of media, adding some titles, moving pictures, adding soundclips to make little funny clips – NEVER had this problem. Unfortunaly CS3 is not installed on this PC or I would have tried it with that version..
Out of desperation I tried the same files (I used dozens of different files) but in Sony Vegas, which does not display these problems. I’m familiar with Premiere Pro though, I prefer using that. Not looking forward to having to relearn everything. :[
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-//- Denise -//-
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3 Replies
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MPEG is a delivery format and was not designed for editing. Some people experience no problem editing MPEG clips in Premiere Pro, while others are not so fortunate.
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Quite odd as I have made many things (in CS3) and never had any problems. I’ll try downgrading as messing about convertings things for hours isn’t something I’m looking forward too.
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Unfortunately there are so many flavours of MPEG (and often MPEG files are not correctly encoded) that it is easy to confuse PPro. Hence the suggestion to stick to a format like DV AVI which PPro handles very well.
Cheers
Eddie
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