[John Riker]

Doesn’t premiere utilize codec installed in the system to open files as well? So assuming 4:4:4 Predictive is something that can be opened for editing with a codec, it should be able to utilize it no? Again assuming that codec exists as those files don’t open in WMP so base system has no codec to view that material.

JR

[John Riker]

[Jeff Pulera] “Ah, sorry, I see now you did mention that workflow. Have never had out of sync audio importing .vob files, that’s weird.”

Are you able to use VOB files in Premiere Pro CC? Note I am on pre 2014 version. I couldn’t import VOB’s until I installed TotalCode but then have all kinds of framerate issues with these files.

JR

[John Riker]

[Jeff Pulera] “What Steve said…why jumping through so many hoops? Copy .vob to hard drive, Import to Premiere, Export to WMV (why though?).”

Our messages may have crossed, but see my other response on the sync issues I’m running into. Also not to get into WMV and why to much but with XBOX 360 you can only play stereo sound thru the Xbox and not 5.1 audio which is supported thru WMA. And on top of that the Xbox seems to stutter a lot when using other formats. WMV is flawlessly played back. 10 years from now when all my devices are no longer used may rethink but for now best solution for me.

Side note on MPEG Streamclip. It doesn’t support MKV files which is OK if it can pull the separate videos out of the file. With other tools I get 5 different videos to pick from which makes sense. I have four separate videos, and then a pointer of a 5th that contains all four right after another. Streamclip always seems to return three “movies” as it calls it.

EDIT: My thoughts are that since Premiere Pro CC can’t natively handle Mpeg2 content and I’m using an intermediary codec that I’m not entirely sure they support in Premiere Pro CC that I need to be able to convert the stream to another format or Premiere will keep choking or having issues with it. Just my thoughts.

JR

[John Riker]

I’ll give MPEG StreamEdit a try. I have downloaded it a couple times but for some reason didn’t end up working for me.

For reference, I went thru a lot of conversions before I netted out with exporting with MakeMKV and then converting to MP4 with Handbrake. Seemed to be the only way the audio stayed in sync with the video when I was done converting. Even if I imported the VOB files into Premiere Pro, the final resulting files were out of sync. I even had one point where there was a hiccup in the video where it started out of sync and went in sync. But when I used MakeMKV that problem went away. However it combines things works better than other things I’ve tried. With the exception that you can’t leave it interlaced that I can see even with passing params in the gui. Believe StreamEdit had the same problem.

JR

[John Riker]

Wow, 2014 version is messed up. SO the latest update was able to load the MP4 files, but the exported uncompressed AVI file had an error of some kind in it. Not sure what, but multiple tools would crap out trying to convert it about a fourth of the way thru. Guess back to like 7.2.1 or something if I can get there.

JR

[John Riker]

I’ll answer my own question so others who may run into this know. I was using Premiere Pro CC 2014 version 8.0.1. Was having issues either with MP4’s or specifically MP4’s that were created in Handbrake. Whatever the cause, I updated to 8.2.0 (65) version and it was again able to open MP4 files.

JR

[John Riker]

Thanks Jeff. Then let me give her a try. Need to copy it over to the computer manually. I do not put the editing computer on the network.

Do you think third party plugins like NeatVideo will work across instances as long as the version is the same?

Also do you think the project needs to be in the same folder as the original one was or is the pathing stored relative?

Thanks.

JR

[John Riker]

Thanks for the replies. On my mac I’m at the max I can be at. Found an article on how to switch it to allow me to adjust the size and am good there but a Mac is slow for my needs.

Assuming I can get it working on a PC, is NVidia GPU required to run this software? I know when it launches it complains all the time, however I do not spend a lot of money on GPU’s because I find rendering thru a GPU has visual artifact issues compared to CPU based. My primary rendering station is a dual CPU XEON 2.65GHz (12 core) system for a total of 24 processing cores. Is it then that Resolve can’t take advantage of this and requires GPU’s for it’s work? Not that I can even get that far as I can’t even get to selecting a file on the PC but curious.

Also for reference the PostgreSQL DB won’t ever install. Even running as administrator. Always fails. I’ll check the minimum requirements, maybe 8.1 isn’t supported or something. If there is a link to these requirements let me know. All I ever see on their basic website is a download link for Win or Mac.

Thanks.

JR

[John Riker]

Just for archival in MP4 format. And it’s REALLY bad quality other than the cleanup I did because it came from some VHS tapes stored in my basement for years so having an unusual frame size isn’t a concern.

Also for Ann, I never saw a crop setting in Premiere Pro CC export page unless that is specific to certain export formats.

Thanks.

JR

[John Riker]

More I look at this, do I need to use the motion settings to center the video image and then stretch it to fit as close as possible to the edges all around keeping in aspect?

JR