V5.2 Screwing up PPro 1.5 Batch Capture

[Matt Dowling]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for taking to the time to report.

What BMD preset were you using? Also what was the properties of the PSD files? Frame size, DPI etc…

So it seems PSD and Adobe titler files trip this up yes?

Also is there a reason you are capturing to Adobe DV and not BMD DV preset? Does the same thing happen with a BMD DV or uncompressed sequence? You can put your DV clips on an uncompressed timeline.

Also i am not sure if you are putting sequences inside another (master) sequence? From memory Premiere Pro doesnt like that too much but i am not 100% sure of that.

Please mail pcsupport@blackmagic-design.com and Andrew can try repo this (might be worth sending the offline project file to him) and assist you further.

Cheers,

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Dkh Lai]

Hi Matt,

Here is my work flow, I’m capturing DV PAL
footages from my VX2000 via 1394 on Adobe
DV PAL 4:3 project.

Then I’ll import all the footages only
to a new BMD DV PAL project and start
my editing. On BMD DV PAL project, I
never put sequences inside another
(master) sequence.

The reason i’m capturing video from Adobe
DV Pal project is mainly because when I
tried capturing DV PAL footages via firewire
1394on BMD DV PAL project, Adobe Premiere
Pro shut off automatically without even promting.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, refering
to your reply above, Do you mean you can
capture DV footages under BMD DV PAL/NTSC
project via Firewire 1394?

Is there any difference between Adobe DV
codec and BMD DV codec?

For me, I only manage to capture BMD DV codec
via BMD anologue or composite video because
Everytime when I want to capture DV with BMD
DV PAL project, I need to switch BMD device
control to DV device control to I only can
control my Camera, after switching to DV device
control and when I hit record button, Premiere
will shut down and return to desktop without
promting.

I’ll send my offline project to Andrew for
further assistance.

Thanks

Daniel

[Dkh Lai]

Hi Matt,

My project is 35MB in size, I have
tried sending it to Andrew but the
file size is too big as an attachement.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

Regards

Daniel

[Matt Dowling]

Is it 32 MB as a .zip? – do you have an ftp site we could grab it from?

Regards,

Matt
Blackmagic Design

[Dkh Lai]

Hi Matt,

After so many nights of editing, I’ve forgotten
that the project file can be zipped.

I’ve send the BMD DV PAL zip project for
to Andrew.

Hope to hear from you guys soon.

Thanks

Regards

Daniel

[Sameer Shrivastava]

Hi,
I have also experinced lots of similar crashes.
I am using 10 bit pal project to capture a 1000+ 50min. edl with 5.2 drivers.

these crashes were not there with 5.1 drivers.

the crashes(i.e a serious error … etc) happened when i was placing an imported clip on the timeline.
The imported clips was renderd on after effects with 10 bit 422 blackmagic codec. After reopening and reimporting the same clip, i could place it on the timeline without any problem. I would say the crashing happened 3/10 times i was doing the above. It also crashed with same message if switched on or off the video layer on ppro. again not always.
these chances of these crashes are high if i was doing the above two actions.

I am even facing similar problems capturing dv clips. ppro reports cant activate current recorder try resetting the camera.
So i opened an blackmagic decklink dv project chose dv capture and said ok the premiere crashed without saying any thing
I did the same thing again but this removed all the four check boxes Saying playback and preview on desk top etc. the system did not crashed. i got the dv control. but i was getting black on desktop capture window. but when i batch captured the clips, the clips were ok . though it was showing black during capture.

First time i installed 5.1 drivers it captured smoothly. now it happens the same way on both 5.1 & 5.2 drivers. i’ll check on earlier versions and report

sameer shrivastva