Premiere CS5 Choppy/Skippy Render Issue

[Glen Cowans]

Hi Dragan

I have just found your thread, am having the same problem with a hi sped machine and cs5.5.

Have you had any joy with your issue and perhaps solved it?

The only thing different that I can see is that if I do a mp4 render and then use media encoder to output that mp4 as a mpeg2 it seems to fix the problem, but I am not convinced or have faith in CS5.5 too much at the moment, that it will not fail again with some choppy scenes.

Interestingly, the mp4 when played back has a choppy section at the beginning but the mpeg2 from it seems fine.

Glen

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Hi Glen,

I did something similar to what you did. Only I exported to an uncomrresed AVI first. Then from the AVI I used Media Concepts Encoder to get to MPEG 2 and it was fine. I did it about five times and it seemed to work ok. Hopefully it that was a patch.

Hope this helps..

Thanks,

Dragan

[Bill Boyer]

Hello – I was browsing trying to find this MPEG2 freezing issue and I came across your Creative Cow post. I am currently having the exact same issues with PPro CS5.5. Every created MPEG2 file (using AME) has a momentary (½ to 1 sec) freezing. Yet, if I import the MPEG2 back into PPro CS5.5 it plays perfectly. The freezing seems to only occur when MPEG2 is played back in the Windows Media Encoder and the Tightrope TV system SX encoder at the TV station. Did you ever find a non-complex way of stopping this problem and being able to use the Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 for all your encoding?

My system is:
Motherboard=ASUS P7P55D-E LX Xtreme Design
CPU=Intel I3 @ 3.2 Ghz
RAM=16 BG DDR3
Display Adapter=EVGA GeForce GTX 550Ti with 1 GIG DDR5 on board
HDD=Two (2) internal 1 TB capacity @ 7200 rpm and 1 exteranl 1 TB

Thanks for any information you have that corrected this problem for you,
Bill

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Hi,

I found a work arround. I will the video out as uncompressed Avi and then I will encode it using Main Concept Reference Encoder.

However, I believe that it worked also once you import the AVI into Adobe Media Encoder and then render out, just make sure that in the settings you leave a good gap between Target output and Max Output bits.

Hope this helps, let me know if this works for you.

Thanks,

Dragan

[Bill Boyer]

Well, I gave that a try and it does work. However, it’s an extra step that should not be necessary. My point is Adobe/Microsoft should do something about the situation. I can sort of understand why Adobe has neglected the situation because all the MPEGs playback fine when they’re brought back into PPro CS5.5. It’s Microsoft’s Window Media Player that seems to be the bad guy here. At my TV station, the Tightrope SXLE server, which plays the MPEG files into the SX encoder for broadcast, uses the Windows Media Player for the file playback. That’s why everybody watching the channel sees freeze-frames. It’s the pits! My work around is that I kept PPro CS2 on my system along with the new PPro CS5.5. So instead of using CS5.5, I use CS2 for TV stuff and there is no problem. Really a shame to have to use a program that is 3½ versions down from the latest to obtain a perfect MPEG2 output file.

I’m going to throw this CS5.5 issue to Tightrope and see what they can suggest. Maybe there is an upgrade they have developed to correct the problem with Microsoft’s Windows Media Player.

Thanks for your reply and suggestion. It does work and very well!
Bill

[Eric Vinyard]

I’m having the same problem. I have noticed, however, that if I export as non-multiplexed files and then multiplex them in TMPGEnc, the resulting .mpg file plays without the skips/pauses. I don’t understand why CS5 doesn’t seem to be able to render a multiplexed .mpg that doesn’t have these glitches. Terribly frustrating.

[Ernst theodor amadeus Hoffmann]

From what I can tell, and I could be wrong, but it seems as if exporting to an external hard drive seems to solve the problem. At least, it did for me. The first time around I managed to make a HD render, no problem on the same hard drive i was running adobe premiere pro on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIsoFl2yduk&feature=youtu.be

However, after that, I got choppy renders. However, on a whim, I exported a few samples of video to which I have known to be choppy to the external, and voila! It worked for me. So, just a suggestion. In any instance, best wishes!

[Chris Karlen]

I too am having this issue. Has anyone found a solution?

[Virgil k. Reed]

I am using Creative Cloud at home and 5.5 at work and I am having the same issue that yall have. Has anyone found a solution to this problem? It is driving me insane.

Thank you,
Virgil

[Mark Shumard]

I’ve been having this problem exporting mpeg2 files from Premiere Pro CS6. Anything I export with any of the mpeg2 settings (mpeg2, mpeg2 for DVD, and mpeg2 for BluRay) skips in places when I play the mpeg 2 in Windows Media Player. The mpeg2 files play fine in DVD players. And when I import them into PP CS6 and put them into a sequence they play fine. My work around is to export a high-bit-rate H-264 file, import that H-264 into Premiere Pro CS4, and export the mpeg2 from there. I get a skip-free mpeg2 file that plays fine in WMP.