[Jerry Wise]

yep…track matte key in Premiere is not very good. In the old Final Cut 7 you could place your matte where you want it and move and re-size your fill footage with ease. this is what i do…place your matte where you want it to be then nest it. put your footage below the matte nest then nest the footage. so you will have 2 nests now. open the footage nest and apply the matte nest above it. make the matte nest 50% transparent to act as a guide. re-size and move your footage to fill the transparent nest. when you get the footage the way you want it then disable the matte nest.
there you go…done the hard way.

[Jerry Wise]

maybe what you are filling the text with is not the same aspect ratio as the text.

[Jerry Wise]

it could be the frame rate of the footage.
have you placed the footage in the timeline and is the audio still out of sync.?

[Jerry Wise]

this is a great tutorial.

[Jerry Wise]

check to see if the little icon in the timeline is unchecked. i t’s under the timecode display to the left.

[Jerry Wise]

i have the same complaint. i usually magnify the image in the program monitor to avoid the problem. like go to +100 or +150 etc.

[Jerry Wise]

I’m not sure. If you play the clip in the XDCAM player there is a time code break due to the cameraman stopping and then restarting. The time of day timecode will just keep running resulting in a jump in the timecode. Premiere does not see the time code breaks.
I will have to get back with the editor and see what all is happening at the ingest stage. maybe the the problem will reveal itself.
it might be that each clip will have to be ingested up until there is a break and then ingest the next clip until the next break and so on.

[Jerry Wise]

are you exporting progressive or interlaced ?

[Jerry Wise]

i think Control Option and select the video part of the clip.

[Jerry Wise]

would “change color” work ? i use that all the time.