[Al Levine]

Just a bunch of questions and statements. I don’t have a solution, but maybe things to think about:

You shouldn’t have to worry about field settings or interlace, etc… That doesn’t apply here.

Are you taking into consideration that :00 of each second counts as a frame (technically frame 1, but timecode wise frame 00)? Maybe the VFX house didn’t export the last frame.

Do the clips have timecode on them? I’m talking metadata TIMECODE, not just time. Compressor could be adding timecode to your clips, correcting some sort of corruption when shots are imported.

How does After Effects see the raw clips compared to the converted clips? To me, After Effects always seems to interpret footage 100% correctly when other programs don’t.

I had this problem a few years ago when I was capturing video from an HDCAM-SR deck. My setting was accidentally set to 1080p, not 1080psf. Not sure this is applicable to you though…

[Al Levine]

If you want to record in-computer audio, the cheat is to get an AUX cable and connect it to your headphone port then loop it to your microphone port — given you have these ports.

If you have one of those Macs that ships with a single aux plug, you can try Soundflower.

[Al Levine]

Please provide Premiere version and OS version.

[Al Levine]

I read somewhere that others were having similar problems, and rolling back CUDA fixed the issue.

[Al Levine]

For me chaining my Audio Hardware preferences to Built-in Line Output and changing Buffersize to max (4096) made everything FAR faster.

[Al Levine]

I had the same issue. And the (strange) solution had nothing to do with what was in my timeline, and 100% to do with my audio settings in Preferences. Try changing your audio output settings around…

[Al Levine]

Not sure what the problem is, but here are a few ideas / questions…

1) The latest version of ProRes that might be in Software Update breaks Premiere… at least that’s what Larry Jordan’s newsletter said last month. But now I can’t find that article. Shoot.
Just make sure you don’t have ProApps QuickTime Codecs v1.0.4, if you can.

2) Are you using Hardware or Software acceleration on your sequence (OpenCL)? Are you using Maximum Render Quality or not? What video card do you have?

3) Have you tried deleting all your preview files? Are you exporting using preview files? Turn that off.

4) Are you using Export or Media Encoder? Try both.

5) Can you try and export on a different machine, maybe one with OS X 10.8.5?

[Al Levine]

Yup. We composite, deliver and finish all our shows in ProRes HQ… even though we cut in Premiere CC.
I think they’re put on HDCAM-SR at some point during finishing though. But the entire post production process is 100% ProRes in Premiere.

[Al Levine]

They both have trials, and both function completely differently. Give them each a try and see what you’re comfortable with. Most production houses that were using FCP 7 are switching to Premiere CC, as workflow doesn’t change much… But a lot of new editors who haven’t worked that way before are finding comfort in Final Cut Pro X.

[Al Levine]

Sorry, assumed your video was an SWF. Animation life has gotten the best of me.
If it’s just video, use Media Encoder to do your FLV files and Premiere for your CC files.