[Henry Garrou]

I suppose your friend has a similar system to yours, Using the in-processor video card perhaps? This is common when working on a laptop.

[Henry Garrou]

It’s probably your GPU then. Adobe and nVidia work very well together. I assume AMD does well also (I haven’t use AMD since they were ATi), but the in-processor video cards by Intel do not have a great track record in high-end software. I think that’s Changing with Iris, we’ll see soon enough.

[Henry Garrou]

I’m not seeing the anomalies in your footage, when they’re on my systems. I checked them in VLC player, AE, and Premiere Pro.

I can think of two possibilities that could cause this.

1. video driver/GPU issues.
See if disabling GPU in premiere fixes the problem
File > Project settings > General & change the video renderer to ‘MPE Software Only’
Then re-enable GPU. You don’t want to work without GPU support in adobe products, but this could reveal your issue. This is not to say that you don’t have driver problems effecting your video overlay, but those issues wouldn’t pass on to the final render and show on other’s computers.

2. Perhaps at some point you installed a third party codec pack. These are common for xvid, xdiv, and other alternate codecs. In the past, when I’ve installed these players/codec packs, they often overwrite codecs for mp4 and others with their own hacked version of the codecs. You can try installing the ffmpeg codec pack, which will overwrite your mp4 h264 codec with theirs. If this fixes the problem, then it’s the codec. Uninstall all third party codec packs and uninstall/reinstall AE, Premiere Pro, and AME to restore your system to the Adobe installed codecs.

Lastly, I lived in San Francisco for a long time, and I know that spot next to the Ferry Building, in your Power ranges video, very well. My wife and I talk about moving back there every day.

Hope this helps.

[Henry Garrou]

I’m checking out your file now. And no need for embarrassment here. You’re surround by people with similar problems.

[Henry Garrou]

Two more questions, what is your video card?

Would you send me a link to one of the files that does this on your system, I’d love to test it.

[Henry Garrou]

Ingest is a general industry term for obtaining the clip/footage onto your HDD. It’s general enough that you can discuss the action without having to declare it as “captured” since that doesn’t describe all forms of ingestion, such as downloading etc.. You’ll find it used in Premiere to describe that very action, the third tab under Project Settings.

I’m trying to narrow down why you would see these marks in premiere and not in the sourece file on the camera. I’ve never seen that anomaly in h264, and you’re not seeing it in your source before it’s in Premiere, so that’s a good sign that this can be reslolved.

Under sequence settings, have you set “Preview File Format” to “I-Frame Only mpeg”?

[Henry Garrou]

And what file format and what codec are these files?

[Henry Garrou]

What are you using to ingest these? Are you using a capture card?

[Henry Garrou]

You can add a >selector >Wiggly to that Animator 1 and get some nice variety to the flow.