Christopher Szabo
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All right, so yes, the system can be capable of a smooth playback to tape, although, a single laptop drive on a P4 would be borderline. I would make sure the drive is well defragged and has plenty of free space. An external drive might cause issues here. So, these are videos you have shot yourself? Once the footage is rendered, how is the playback in the preview window.
“Jump cutting, freezing, skipping” does sound like a codec issue, but if you are getting the footage directly from a DVCAM or miniDV tape, then it should be fine. This isn’t coming from an analog input right?
Once we have this part solved, other issues might include a wrong field order (lower first for DV), a wrong project setting (are you using the default NTSC DV 29.97?), or if none of these are solutions, you may just be looking at a need of a new install.
Okay well the system is defragged and there is plenty of space on my D drive (16GB) and I soon found out that was not enough, so I got a WD External 150 GB hArd Rive. Is this causing the issues? Yes these are videos I have shot myself. The playback in the preview window once the project is rendered is kinda slow, but that’s because my computer can’t work that fast. I usually have to use the fast forward option, and this allows me to playback the preview just fine. And all my video is caputured from a SONY Handycam camcorder, which uses miniDV tapes. I do not know if this comes from an analog input. I don’t know what that is lol. I had my multimedia teacher try to help a while back, and we solved part of the problem with rendering by changing the project setting, but now this problem is still here. What would be the next step? Do you think it could be my external hard drive?
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I mean firewire. I directly export the project to tape from the Premiere program. I had previously tried export the project to an AVI ( or MPEG2 as you state it) onto “my computer” but when it is burned to a DVD, the quality is horrible due to the audio jumping and video jumping and skidding. By freezing, I mean the DVD on which the project is exported to, or the tape to which the project is exported to, when either the tape or the DVD are playbacke, the movie itself on these devices comes out in a kind of jump cutting, freezing, skipping type of jumble that is not the way the movie should be played back. I don’t know how to make that any clearer lol. And my system is fully capable of working with Premiere. am using a SONY VAIO laptop label PCG-FRV27 with an Intel Pentium 4 Processor 2.66GHz, 960 MB of RAM. I am almost sure it is not my computer.
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Oh well I don’t know if the file is Xvid. I just knew that I had seen this codec before on my computer so that’s what I thought it was. Okay, let me try stating my problem again. When I complete a project in Premiere, I cannot export the project to a tape because while it exports, it skips and freezes up mulitiple times. So I’ve tried things such as exporting the project to an AVI file, reimporting that file into Premiere and trying to export it to tape, which also fails. This same scenario is treu when I try to burn thr project to a DVD. It skips and freezes. I have exported projects to tapes succesfully before I started using Premiere( I used Moive Maker), but something within Premiere is keeping my projects from being able to be exported to other devices such as DVD, Camera, or iPod, without freezes or skips. I don’t know if the codec is Xvid. Haha is this making any sense?
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which file do i check, like the movie i captured from my camera or what?
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Oka so I downloaded this Gspot freeware and installed it. I browsed for the file I am having trouble with( it is the exported movie from Premiere) and it says it is a DV Type 2 AVI and under codec it says “dvsd”. is this alright? should i be looking for something else? what should I do now?
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I am pretty sure it is Xvid. How would I know for sure which Codec and have, and…..what is a codec? Haha I am good with compter, just not with the fancy names. Lol. Also, if it is my “codec” would this also cause problems to any device I export it to, such as a DVD, Tape, or even my iPod, because I am having trouble on all three.