[Joby Anthony jr]

Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with the particular issue you’re experiencing. I only wanted to chime in here because under your list of troubleshooting, I didn’t see trash preferences. I think you nailed a lot of the other troubleshooting steps, and maybe you did that one too. But just in case, that’s another one to try.

Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

I’m on a M1 Mac, so FWIW. My solution to the gamma shift dilemma was to change up my monitor profile to Rec.709 (the resulting output of all our current projects). The Display Color Management box in Premiere’s preferences is Unchecked (and also greyed out, so not even an option–which could be a M1 nuance? don’t know).

Anyway, changing the monitor profile was the only way I could get Premiere, Quicktime, and VLC to all show me the exact same image.

And I can’t take credit for this solution. I don’t recall where my research ultimately came across this, but it essentially seemed to be the only way to address it properly, rather than go through the LUT hoops or any other cobbled together solutions.

Oh! And before I stumbled on this, I would add the Gamma Effect and adjust it accordingly. It wasn’t perfect, but was better in helping me get some consistency to my outputs.

Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Ah! Apologies. I assumed it was an iPhone. But glad to hear you got it to work!

joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Preview -> File -> Import from <name of phone>

Not ‘Import from iPhone’ (which is also an option), but for me, was the option right under that. Anyway, brings up an importer dialogue box where you can see all of your media (photos and videos).

And for reference, this was tested on Ventura, 13.2.1. And in my past experience worked the same way on previous OS’s, so it should work the same way on Monterey.

Bottom line: use Preview (or one of the other Mac apps such as Photos or FCP.

Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

My first thought was wondering about the graphics card and if it was about to die. Or a RAM module. Or over-heating? My encouragement would be to also start with reducing playback from Full to 1/2 or 1/4 and see if it still happens. Might also be related to GPU playback, so switching it to Software Only processing could be another troubleshooting step. And lastly, I don’t know if Premiere’s “Dogears” would tell you anything more about it, but worth a shot (CMD+Shift+F11, on a Mac; unsure of PC–look it up).

Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

I know on our C100s, all of our NLEs seem to know to automatically stitch together its AVCHD files, but not the mp4s from the camera. So Canon created a stitch tool to put those pieces together. Maybe Sony has a similar stitching tool?

[Joby Anthony jr]

Another thought might be to look at any theater and/or broadcast-styled higher-ed schools/degree programs in your area. Could be student about to graduate who’d love a chance to hone their craft and possibly add to a demo-reel.

Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Forgive me Patrick as I don’t have any experience working in Production, but I know when I import from one project to another and it pulls in duplicate footage, I just have it ‘Consolidate Duplicates” under the Edit pulldown menu. This seems to work well. Wonder if Productions would behave the same way?

Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

We have an editor with the same issues. iMac Pro. I’ve done all I can, including a full CC delete and reinstall to no avail. Which makes me wonder about a possibly corrupted user image. But we can’t do anything about that in an enterprise environment (like create a new one on our own). So we plan, at some point, to take it to IT and have them nuke the machine and do a full OS reinstall, etc. And it’s persistent to their machine only. None of our other editors have the issue.

Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Assuming a limitation of mics and inputs (e.g., four mics going into a Zoom recorder), what we’ve done in the past is just have the guests pass around stick mics. So one mic with the host the whole time (stick or lav), and then the others are stick mics that get passed around. Not ideal, but doable.

The other alternative, which IMO would be less ideal is to have one or two stick mics that the guests would walk up to.

Or, maybe put a couple of stick mics strategically placed on stands that sort of act like boom mics that can “cover” a couple people at the same time.

But agreed, a less than ideal scenario for sure. And it sounds like no matter what scenario you end up with, you can expect a lot of post work.

Better might be to break it up into segments so that no matter what you only have as many people on a mic as there are mics. So for example, four mics, host + 3 guests. Ask questions, respond, then break, reset with new guests, and stitch it altogether in post. Generally there’s only one person talking at a time, no matter how many people you’ve got. I know podcasts can be a bit different than an event, but I still don’t think you’d have 10+ people talking at once.

My encouragement would be to see what the event producer is willing to negotiate, because it otherwise sounds like a recipe for something that no one would be happy with in the end, even in a proper studio setup. Just too many people. Again, IMO.

Joby.