Adam Leonard
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Whelp, I talked to him again and it turns out the thing that he saw on TV that looked so choppy was a graphics intro that was intentionally made to look choppy by a third party. He said that about one other thing as well, but I personally couldn’t see a difference there.
Only remaining question is if my export settings are the best they can be, and I think they are. Just exported it four different ways and the difference seems pretty marginal to me, if it exists at all.
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I’ll ask the videographer about how exactly he’s dumping the footage. I know he does it via a Windows computer and then, via a local network, puts it onto an external drive connected to my computer (also Windows).
UPDATE: He says it’s done directly from the XQD card.
I installed Catalyst Browse and analysed some of the footage there and found something interesting. It says it has a frame rate of 29.97 fps but a Capture FPS of 59.94i. So what does that mean for our problem?
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I’ll ask the videographer about how exactly he’s dumping the footage. I know he does it via a Windows computer and then, via a local network, puts it onto an external drive connected to my computer (also Windows).
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I think it’s because our station broadcasts in 1080i.
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I just had the same problem, except that PP (2015.2) really seems to think that the missing Project tab is open, but I can’t close it or bring it to the forefront. Another weird separate problem with me is that my tabs keep overlapping/covering each other up and nothing seems to fix them. I tired almost everything, and then wondering if maybe it was buried somewhere, started closing all the tabs one by one and then seeing if the Window drop-down menu showed the Project tab as being closed as well. Lo and behold it did after the second tab was closed. Reopened it from the Window menu and it actually appeared. Quit and reopened Premiere and had the same thing happen again, although it closed along with a different second tab this time.
Just posting this here in case anyone else is having the same problem.
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It will be mostly used by this one computer, although we’re most likely going to network it to at least one other computer to allow the videographer to dump new footage to it directly from his machine in the next room over.
All footage shot in the last 9 months or so is in .mxf format and was shot on a Sony FS7 (more details copied from Premiere: Wrapper type: MXF OP1a (type: SingleItem SinglePackage MultiTrack Stream Internal)
File generated by: Sony, Mem (1.00)
MPEG-2 422 Long-GOP).There’s a bunch of footage shot on an older camera from about 2012 until about 9 months ago that’s in .mp4 format that I still use occasionally.
About 18 months before we switched to the new computer and Premiere we tried using a Drobo that was connected over the network and it failed miserably (was too slow to work with), so I don’t really want to try that again.
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Weirdness bonus- I just made an edit (without the nesting work-around) where the problem should have occurred, and it didn’t happen. I went back and tried redoing older edits that had the problem, and it still had them. There doesn’t seem to be any difference between the cuts that had the problem and the ones that did not.
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A couple more details that might possibly help:
- The whole thing was originally made in Avid 6, exported as an AAF, and then pulled into Premiere. Premiere hates Avid’s way of doing alpha-channeled footage (the clips appear on the Premiere timeline but don’t work at all), and so I had to replace them all by re-importing the photos and putting them back on the timeline anew. Since the video footage takes up the whole screen and has no alpha matte, I don’t need to do that with it. But there was one bit of video footage that I pulled in separately, and the disappearing background problem still happened, so I don’t think the problem has much to do with this.
- The problem still happens between a photo that’s the size of the entire screen and a photo with an alpha channel, not just between video like that and photos with alpha channels.
- I have reason to think that my video drivers might not be up to the task of running Premiere CC. The it’s an NVIDIA Quadro running version 8.17.12.7589. I tried updating the software once and Avid quit working, so we had to switch back to the older version. We’re about to switch to a new computer entirely. But the problem with the background disappearing during transitions still happens when I’ve exported the video, so I don’t think it has to do with this.
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What I’m doing in my work-around is nesting together a series of photos, with dissolves between them (no problems with them) but not on the end, and then dissolving between the nested layer and the video.
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Actually, I’m only dissolving the one layer and the other one is just left there in the background. Also, I’ve actually been doing the same project with only slight differences in Avid for years and didn’t have this problem. I tried nesting the entire upper layer to the background layer and it still happened.
What I’ve been doing is nesting the sets of photos between each video clip to the background and then putting a cross-dissolve between the nested layer and the video layer (the latter of which doesn’t show the background).