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PremierePro CS6: Video stuttering and freeze-framing in playback
I know there are a few posted threads about this already, but no one seems to be having my problem (unless I missed it going through the threads). Here’s the problem:
Premiere CS6 runs fine with media captured from 2 of 3 camera sources that I use in editing. Media from one camera, however, will freeze and stutter to the point it’s almost impossible to edit, unless I watch the entire video in real time and drop my in/out points that way. Even then it stutters. The camera audio plays fine during high-speed scrubs, and video will play for the first half-second or so, then freeze. The video size, frame rates, video and audio stats are identical to the other cameras. But the problem is only apparent with media from this camera (all media so far). When I load a clip into the source monitor, it says “Media pending” for about 4 seconds before the frame image appears.
Thoughts?
“Ohh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. “I’m My Own Grandfather”! Let’s just steal the damn dish and get out of here! Screw history!”
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Quick update: It wasn’t until I opened the original media files in Quicktime to compare them (hoping to see something I wasn’t seeing in PrP), and noticed that the camera files were compressed to h.264. Sure enough, in the finder I could see the files were substantially smaller that media from the other cameras at similar length. I imagine this has something to do with it.
I ran one of the compressed media files through Compressor and converted it to pro-res (I’m sure that must be like trying to enlarge a poor image in Photoshop), and it seems to stutter less in Premiere’s source monitor on playback and scrubbing. Not flawless, but better.
Anyone else having this problem might take a look at the media for compression.
“Ohh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. “I’m My Own Grandfather”! Let’s just steal the damn dish and get out of here! Screw history!”
-Professor Hubert Farnsworth -
I had the same problem.
I changed the video compression and it played back just fine. I didn`t change the format (i use wmv)but the compression settings of that format.
Hope you solved it!
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