[Dragan Negovanovic]

Ok working on it now. 8 Hours to go:-)))

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Ok, when you say uncheck a couple of cores do you mean one core because the options I show are

All Processors
CPU0
CPU1

DO I leave just CPU1 and let it render?

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Tim, once again thanks for your response. I completely agree that my machine is very limited now for HD Editing. I will purchase a new most powerfull laptop very soon. However, I don’t know if that will fix the problem.

Two reason why I am saying that:

1. Todd in the upper post has an excellent machine and he is having the same issues

2. I have rendered 45 min AVCHD to MPEG2 before on this machine without a glitch.

I am taking your recommendation now to take import the project into a new one and export out an uncompressed AVI first, then i will import into new project and render to MPEG2. I will post the results. Thanks again.

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Todd it is good to see that I am not the only one with this problem. You definately have a high end system, unlike me, and we are having the same issue. This leads me to believe that it is not my system. I am exporting into the AVI format now to try as Tim suggested and I will then try to convert into MPEG2 to see if there are issues still.

Just FYI, my system is Inter Centrino Dual core 2.53ghz, 4gb of ram and 500gb 5400 rpm. Your typical everyday computing machine, it redners for a while, but it renders it out.

Thanks for your input..

[Dragan Negovanovic]

What is the computer configuration?

I have a Intel Centrino Dual Core 2.53mghz per core, 4gb of ram, and 256mb Nvidia card. The hard drive is 500gb 5400rpm, 300 being available.

Where is your scratch disk set?
I am sorry I am not sure what this means. I am new to video

How much hard drive space for scratch? For Video storage?
I have 300 gb available on the hard drive, I am not sure how I would allocate the space. Sorry.

Exact framerates/datarates you’ve tried.

I tried exporting, 30mbs target rate with target high 36mbs..MPEG 2 upper field first for NTSC with frame blednig and max rendering quality setting

I also tried 7mbs target with 9mpbs high. MPEG2 upper field NTSC, frame blending , max render quality

I tried 25mbs target and 30 high, and rendered as pal 25frames, upper field first into MPEG2

I tried 7mbs target with 9mbps high MPEG2 for PAL upper and lower field frame blending max render quality on all of these tries.

I also exported as WMA but that was awful

I also rendered as h264 with the 1080/60i preset and it stalled as well

What happens if you export to something crazy like uncompressed or QT Animation or even DVCProHD and THEN compress it to MPEG?

I did not try this yet, but I can try that as well

AND…as I asked you, have you imported the original project into a fresh project to see if the project itself is simply corrupted?

Hmm, no I have not tried this yet. However I will try.

I know I should probably upgrade my machine as well, but I don’t know if that is the cause.

Thanks for your patience with this.

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Tim, the stalls are consistent. However, when you import the rendered file into a fresh CS5 Premiere project it plays perfectly fine. Then I render out again and the stalls happen in two different places :-((( Each new render causes a skip on a different place.

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Tim, FYI. I just rendered and selected export with preview file. The video stalled in two spots. Unbelievable.

Any thoughts?

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Tim, thanks for your reply neighbor. I am in Chicago, Illinois by the way. Anyhow, I am using Looks Builder and Neat Video plugins. I shot the footage in NTSC 1080/60i, and yes you are correct mp4 is the wrapper. You know your stuff:-))) At this point I will try rendering with preview files because i have not tried that.

The other thing that is odd is that once I import the rendered video that gets stuck on two scenes into premiere, it plays fine. When I render the rendered video(and this version does not have looksbuiler and Neat video, becuase it was the rendered version) it plays fine in premiere, but renders and gets jammed in two different spots:-(((

I also imported the footage to youtube and it is smooth there. So apparantly youtube fixes it.

I am new to video and don’t have a lot of experience with this but, I am beginning to think it is my machine.

What are your thoughts. I have a Dual Core, 2.53ghz per core, 4gb of ram, 256 mg nvidia video card laptop. I know this is not impressive to that fanciest i7’s out there. I will go and buy one if you think that this will fix it.

What are your thoughts? Thanks again for your patience and help.

[Dragan Negovanovic]

FYI, when I uploaded the file to youtube. Youtube seem to correct the problem. However, I really need the mpeg2 to work well for the broadcasting on the TV station.

Thanks so much for your help with this.

[Dragan Negovanovic]

Ok folks I just rendered to PAL NTSC MPEG2 with lower field first, target bitrate 7mbps and high bitrate 8mpbs, and the result is that is skips in three other places.

OK so I took the file which was HD NTSC which skipped in a couple of places, then imported into premiere, it played perfect, exported to PAL (above) and the video is jerky, stalls a bit in three completely diferrent places.

Original footage was shot with Sony EX1 in mp4 format.

Yes and I did try to export in mp4 format before and it does the same thing. I have been rendreding for more then a week now:-))

Please help.