Al Jensen
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Are you using Shadow/Highlights by chance? There’s a well known bug for years now where Shadow/Highlights sometimes causes flickering if you do it manually, particularly when there’s a large area that is mostly the same color. Here’s a thread covering the issue over the last 4 years (!) with no solution in sight:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/758937?tstart=0
I have no idea why Adobe hasn’t managed to fix it, as currently Shadow/Highlights is unusable.
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I think she means just choose Width/Height as if you were cropping. If you take a 1280×720 video and export it at 1280×700 it doesn’t squish it down, it actually trims 10 pixels off the top and 10 off the bottom.
I agree though, there should be better options for cropping, even if that means auto creating a new sequence for the crop. I have 40+ different project files for dealing with various 720p source files ranging from 1262×690 to 1280×720. Currently I deal with it in Virtualdub before importing it into Premiere, but it would be nice to deal with it all in Premiere alone.
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If I crop 4 pixels off each side in the export settings though then my 1280×720 output will now be 1272×712, but since I’m starting with a 1920×1080 source there’s no reason not to have a full 1280×720 and just crop the pixels out of the full sized version instead. So my 1920×1080 source becomes 1912×1072 which is then resized down to 1280×720.
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Good information. Thanks Jeff!
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I should add that if I just right click on the clip and choose Scale to Framesize it puts a few pixels of black around the edges. Probably because it’s theoretically more like 720×404 but due to the 16 pixel increment thing of MPEG-1/MPEG-2 the standard is 720×400.
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They’re raw VOB files from some promotional DVDs. VOBs are MPEG-2 files with a .VOB extension. All DVDs are encoded at 720×480 and then letterboxed or adjusted to the proper AR by the player. In this case, the VOBs are 16:9 widescreen and should be 720×400, which is standard for filling a TV, much like 1280×720 is standard 720p. I am exporting them as h.264 files for YouTube. Thanks.
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Very interesting, thanks for the link.
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[Chris Borjis] “Al, are these .mov files?
If so you will need to have someone transcode them to another pc friendly format.
I had to convert a few hundred HDV .mov clips for a client a month ago.
They had me transcode them to pro res.”Yeah, they are. Okay, that pretty much makes it official then. I’ll contact him and see if he can send me them in a different format since I was unable to convert them using Virtualdub, even with AVISynth.
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It’s a .MOV file. I’ve been using this install of CS6 for a little over a year, but this is the first time I’ve tried to use his footage since he switched cameras. It never occurred to me it would be an issue 🙂
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I got it from another guy who was filming, and he does indeed use FCP. Googling around it looks like if you’re on a Mac and you don’t have FCP you can install “ProApps Quicktime Codecs”, but that doesn’t work for Windows. It sounds like you’re right.