[Mark Shumard]

Dennis R., Thanks for your time and interest. I have been having the same skip trouble with MPG2s exported from PP CS6 playing in Windows Media Player. My work around is to export MPG2s from PP CS4. I’m sure if there were a straightforward solution, Adobe techs would have written a patch by now.

[Mark Shumard]

I’ve been having this problem exporting mpeg2 files from Premiere Pro CS6. Anything I export with any of the mpeg2 settings (mpeg2, mpeg2 for DVD, and mpeg2 for BluRay) skips in places when I play the mpeg 2 in Windows Media Player. The mpeg2 files play fine in DVD players. And when I import them into PP CS6 and put them into a sequence they play fine. My work around is to export a high-bit-rate H-264 file, import that H-264 into Premiere Pro CS4, and export the mpeg2 from there. I get a skip-free mpeg2 file that plays fine in WMP.

[Mark Shumard]

Thank you for your help! I’m new to Resolve and it’s a really steep learning curve. I’d been searching “window time code” on the DR forum but was getting only info on how to use time code. You didn’t tell me where to find the check box but you did give me the right word, “burn”. I word-searched “burn” in the PDF manual and found I needed to go to a “palette”, word-searched “palette” and found a palette that has a flame icon (duh … must be burn) and there was the check box! Thanks again for your help!

[Mark Shumard]

I am still getting this skipping problem, only when I play the MPEG2 in Windows Media Player. My work-around is still to export another file type from CS6 and render an MPEG2 file from that export in CS4 on another computer. I think that Adobe has changed something between CS4 and CS6. Is anyone getting good results exporting MPEG2 from CS6 and playing the file in Windows Media Player?

[Mark Shumard]

Sorry I have nothing more on this. I’ll try re-installing Premiere Pro eventually, maybe that will help. In the weeks after I posted this I found that the problem occurs in exporting with the “MPEG2 for DVD” as well. I worked around this by exporting a DVAVI from Premiere Pro CS6 and encoding to MPEG2 in Adobe Media Encoder CS4, which I still have on another computer. I exported the HD files I needed from PPCS6 as H264 files.

The big differences between my old and new computers is that my new computer is 64 bit, has more RAM, has 8 threads on a 4-core processor that is overclocked, and has a solid-state drive as a C-drive. That’s where the Premiere CS6 is located. If your computer has anything in common it might be a clue to the problem.

[Mark Shumard]

Dennis, Thank you for your time and thoughtfulness. I looked at the 1080P file more closely since I wrote the last message and noticed that it skips in a few places. My best guess is that the MPEG2 codec is corrupt. When I get the chance I’ll reinstall the PPCS06 software. By the way I forgot to say that my C drive is a 120GB solid state. Don’t know if that has anything to do with the problem … thanks again.

[Mark Shumard]

Thanks, Dennis. Standard setting MPEG2 1080p HQ 29.97 plays fine. Standard setting MPEG2 720p HQ 29.97 skips (drops about 3 frames at odd intervals) Every 720p custom setting that I tried dropped frames, although in different places for different settings. All renders using the same setting drop the same frames (renders are identical when I use identical settings.) When I play any particular exported MPG2 file, the same frames are dropped whether the file is played from the beginning or started somwhere within the file. I got identical playback results when I played the MPEG2 files on a 2nd computer – different processors, video card and operating system. (All MPEG2 files were exported from PPro CS6 and played with Windows Media Player.)

I tried exporting and identical clip with identical settings on another computer using PPro CS4. All exports played great. In fact, every MPG2 file I’ve ever exported from CS4 has played well.

I imported some of the skipping MPG2 exports into a PPro CS6 project and put them on a timeline to look at them closer – and they all played fine on the timeline!

Any ideas?

[Mark Shumard]

Don’t double-click the clip. Just single-click to select it. In the “effects controls” tab you can manipulate “Video Effects”, “Audio Effects” and any filters you have applied to your single selected clip.

BTW if you want to apply an effect to many clips on the timeline, select the effect(s) in the “effects controls” window, copy it (them), select all the clips you want on the timeline and paste. The effect and its settings are applied to all selected clips. This works with Motion and other basic settings as well.

[Mark Shumard]

I’ve had this problem from time to time. Sometimes 44.1k files sync and sometimes they don’t. Try converting the files to 48k and importing those into Premiere. I use Sound Forge for the conversion. Works most of the time.

[Mark Shumard]

I’m considering buying one. Wanted to see how AVCHD looks from the camera.