[Pat Irwin]

“Makes me wanna buy a mac. windows is sh!t when it comes to film production”

I’m not certain a Mac is going to solve the problem. I’m running an iMac with the i7 microprocessor and 16gb RAM – tons of CPU power, tons of memory and scratch disks are two Firewire 800 Lacie 2Gb drives: I have an elusive video flicker on one of my productions that I simply can’t track down the cause of on export.

I’ve tried everything I can think of, re-conforming the source, different sequence settings, export settings, the usual. No avail, still have a bit of flicker with clips that have a significant amount of white in the material. I thought toning down the exposure would help, but that does not work either.

When the project is in Media Encoder, and while viewing the output window, the flicker appears while moving the scrubber, so I think it may be some anomaly within Media Encoder.

I’d be curious about a fix for this as well, since it is a bit frustrating. My solution was to scrap it in Premier Pro and do the project in Final Cut Pro, as Adobe never seems to be of any help on tech issues. (They’re quick to take the several thousand dollars from me for CS5, but not so much when it comes to support.) Thankfully, it’s not that complex of a project, but frustrating nonetheless.

Anyhow, if you find a solution, please post and best of luck to all experiencing this issue.