[Mike Prindle]

Please disregard the above message; I rebooted and did everything over again and it installed fine.
Thanks,
Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

[Mike Prindle]

I haven’t had problems with importing that footage into CS4. Maybe it’s just luck. However, I do have to remind myself to ensure the Presets are set to AVCHD 1080p, that the fps and frame sizes are same as imported file. I usually have issues only when presets, prefs, or sizes don’t match. Seems obvious, but I occasionally forget this.

But you may already know this. I even import 1920×1200 footage into projs with presets AVCHD 1080p 29.97 and they turn out crisp and clean when exported to avi, H264, and MP4. Hope this helps.

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[Mike Prindle]

Thanks Todd. That answered my question. And I greatly appreciate the Help PDF. But sometimes I don’t get the search argument accurate enough to find the answer in “Help” — but when do, it is always explained very well. But searching for it is sometimes the challenge.
Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Hi Brian.
That worked like a charm… thank you very much. I forgot about noticing the bmp in the Presets before, likely because I was always looking for a file, not a bitmap. Plus I get in a habit from the old version’s menus.
Thanks,
Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Thanks again Mike…. problem solved!! Appreciate it!

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[Mike Prindle]

Thanks, Mike. Your comment was helpful!

Mike Velte said:
“I suspect you will have hardware challenges with that resulting in a very low frame rate if even 1 frame per second.”

I don’t have enough experience with different cards and what they are capable of doing. Do you (or anyone else reading this) think a high-end video card, like ATI’s Radeon HD-5970, would do the trick? I didn’t think 1920×1200 would be that challenging for a high-performance card. Or possibly is it the limitation of Camtasia’s capture capabilities that impacts the frame rate?

The PC which I plan on using is Core i7-975, 12GB RAM DDR3, nVidia GTX280m 1GB GDDR3, and an Intel 160GB SSD drive. If necessary, the Radeon HD-5970 may be optional by using a PCI16 ExpressCard Adapter. Do you still think Camtasia6 capture at 1920×1200 and 29.97 may be questionable with this PC setup?

Thanks.

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[Mike Prindle]

Please disregard my second post above. I think I’ve figured it out. Thanks Jon and Eric for your replies.
Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

Eric said:
“When I say corrupt, I mean corrupt as far as Premiere is concerned. It still may play fine in a media player “

Thanks Eric. Coincidently I noticed another problem that might be related to what you said and I ask for any comments.

I began 2-hr video project in PPro CS4 consisting of a dozen 10-min clips. Original clips are mostly 320×240 wmv3 30fps. I used the AVC File Converter to change format to 720×480 mpg2 at 29.97 – (convert to .avi didn’t convert well). Then imported the 720x files to PPro timeline. When they played on PPro monitor, the head of the person talking (tight closeup) would frequently move from side to side with a shadow frame hesitating 1-2 frames behind the real image then snapping quickly to the real-life movement frame position to caught up. It’s as though every 5-6 seconds a sticky frame would freeze for a instant before disappearing, or appearing to caught up the real image position. It’s like a sticky shadow-image falling behind (1 or 2 frames) in the movement – in this case, the person’s head movement. At first I thought it looked as though the 3rd & 4th frames were missing, giving a jerky effect. But it’s really a stickiness of past frames occuring every 5-10 seconds of playback.

I played the file in Win Media player and the footage looks fine. I re-converted the original file format again to 720 at 29.97, but no change. AND GET THIS: I moved the original footage – 320×240 wmv3 30fps – to the sequence timeline preset at 720×480 29.97, and the clip played fine. But converted to 720×480 mpg2 at 29.97, and it plays jerky or sticky even in a 720×480 29.97 preset sequence timeline.

Amazingly, I previously used similar types files from the same footage pool – 320×240 wmv3 30fps and converted to 720×480/29.97 mpg2 – in another project preset to 720×480 at 29.97 and all went well.

I’m perplexed at this. The numerous source footage files all varied in format and fps before being converted to 720×480 29.97. So why do some work and others don’t? It’s bizarre. Sidenote: these files are not the highest quality footage and I have no idea of the model cam that shot them.

Thanks again,
Mike

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[Mike Prindle]

That answers what I need to know….Big help! Thanks, John

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