[Sean Mcculley]

I’m monitoring the audio from the computer output and not the client monitor. I know about that 1 – 2 frame delay going out to the client monitor. What is happening here is that I hit ‘Play’ and the audio starts playing then 30 – 45 frames into the timeline the video starts playing.

I can play the clip 10 times in a row – sometimes it is flawless and other times the timeline indicator and video don’t move while the audio plays. The video stalls for a second or two and runs out of sync.

I’ve tried moving the footage to a local drive thinking that the video was getting delayed from our shared drive but the same thing happened.

Any clues?

[Sean Mcculley]

If I wanted to convert my mp4 to a more editable codec before I begin editing, would you reccomend starting with compressor to change it? I assume converting to to ProRes is the best route to go.
What about using MPEG Streamclip?

Sorry for the basic questions. I’ve been stuck editing the same format in and out (in Premiere Pro)for years. I’m now branching out to FCP and working with different formats. Is there a good resource to gain a good working knowledge of different formats and codecs?

Thanks for the help!

[Sean Mcculley]

That sounds very similar to what I’m experiencing. Clips recorded on the Firestore and brought into CS4 play fast while the audio plays at normal speed. This occurs in the preview monitor and also when edited into the timeline.
Clips not recorded with the Firestore play just fine. I wouldn’t be surprised if the video were playing at 100x speed like you are experiencing.

What is your workaround? Any guesses as to why this is happening? Have you ruled anything out?

Thanks!
Sean

[Sean Mcculley]

I’ve restarted and created a new project without any luck.
I’m using the DV-NTSC Standard 48K Setting. This is SD footage. All of this footage plays fine in Premiere 2 on another computer.

This may be related: HD footage we’ve brought into this computer gives us an extremely long clip…. We shot a 1 minute clip but comes into CS4 as a 15 minute long clip. When it plays to the 1 minute it freezes on the last frame for 14 more minutes. I’ve also seen this happen on a Mac Pro running CS4 as well. In all occasions the footage was shot on a Panasonic HVX200 connected to a Firestore FS100 recorder.

[Sean Mcculley]

Has this issue ever been resolved? I’ve had similar problems with a studder in my video. This was on my Mac Pro with CS4.

[Sean Mcculley]

I copied the SD timeline into the the HD timeline but I still got the letterbox. Couldn’t find a way to unlink it from the 4:3 sequence.
However, it did help me in a way to manually rebuild all the sequences. I ended up copying the “bad sequence” and placing it several layers up in the good timeline. I could then follow along like a template and duplicate what was done below. It took a few hours to rebuild but I couldn’t find another way out.

Thanks for the help!

[Sean Mcculley]

From what I can tell, It is the sequence that is set to SD. When I choose ‘item properties’ for the clip it shows Pixel Aspect…HD(960×720).

If I choose a sequence and hit ‘Item properties’ it tells me the frame size is 720×480 and pixel aspect is NTSC-CCIR 601. There is nothing beside Anamorphic in the item properties. It looks letterboxed. If I double click on a clip in the sequence it loads it into the viewer letterboxed.

Today I created a proper DVCProHD sequence. There is NO letterboxing. I can load up the raw footage without letterboxing as well. The problem now is when I try to drag an old SD sequence into my new project – i get the error message “Operation Not Allowed. You Cannot Nest Sequences With Different Editing Timebases”.

Is there any way to recreate my sequences?

Thanks!

[Sean Mcculley]

This footage was captured on P2 with a Panasonic AJ-HPX2000 camera. I used a Panasonic P2 reader to copy the footage on to my computer’s hard drive. I’ve also had the same problem on a second project with footage shot with a Panasonic HVX200 & Firestore 100 (Quicktime DVCProHD 720p/60).

I should be able to use the footage natively in Premiere CS4.

I took a hard drive with some jumpy footage to someone’s FCP to determine if it was the footage having problems or my computer It played fine on their system so I assume my Premiere / Mac is at fault.

Is there a codec that I need to download? Can someone walk me through setting up the project to see if I missed something obvious?

As far as my AVID, that blurry scan line didn’t show up on my test DVD. My problem there is that the exported quicktime has gray bars on it meaning I don’t have a quicktime codec for HD – or maybe corrupt. I have two NLEs on this computer that handle native DVCPro HD footage. Shouldn’t there be a HD quicktime codec installed?

I really want to get this fixed in CS4.

Thanks for the help!

[Sean Mcculley]

Can you clarify? Was the answer to getting rid of the gray bars – installing Calibrated Decode – or is there a codec in Panasonic P2 manager?

[Sean Mcculley]

Asking the cameraman not to pan or buying FCP isn’t an option. I was hoping someone has had this problem and has found a solution.