Andy Prada
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“nesting my sequence into a 4:3 sequence, which didn’t work (the video became much too large for the frame, resulting in more complications)”
Simply use resize to reduce the image in the motion tab of the effects composition.
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You obviously know a limitation/anomaly here Kevin….care to explain what’s going on?
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Who originated the MPEG2 files? Were they all done by yourself or from various third parties?
I ask this only because some of them might not be very good to start with. When you right click the properties of a file in explorer it should, in the detail tab, tell you the parameters and bit rate. If they bit rate is very low that might explain the problem. Premiere will not be able to improve on what might not be a well encoded piece of video in the first place.
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“This does not happen on all MPEG2 files but it certainly happens most of them.”
Therein may lie the problem! Can you give us some parameters of your different MPEG2 files so we can look a little further?
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Follow up: just how do you input to this deck?
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“I am going into a Sony XDCam R1 deck and it gives me a reference error every so often and the video goes to black.”
I don’t think this is a Premiere problem. I think this a deck sync problem. I may have a solution or I may not.
Your deck’s input should be set so that reference should be INPUT VIDEO. Anything else and it might be trying to reference to sync that it can’t find. (like an external clock or sync pulse generator) This is true of all pro/broadcast VTRs and may well be true of your XDCam VTR.
You need to make sure that the deck takes its sync from your input video not look for it elsewhere.
You might also hear the VTR servo struggling to look for sync as it records and this is a tell-tale sign of no proper reference signal.
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Try deleting all your preview files completely. Reload the project and let it compile a new set for the sequence you are trying to export.
It could be that some files are not being accessed as they should and ME thinks they don’t exist.
Computers are only human aren’t they?
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“When I go to playout a timeline (16:9 Standard Def)there is from time to time a break in the video”
Just remind me of your capture / sequence settings and general PC spec
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Just out of interest….do you get the same problem if you hook it up by USB only (presuming of course it has USB)