Tim Kolb
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[Cass McNeilly] “Any thoughts?”
Yeah…I’d start with a reinstall of CS4 now that QT 7.6.x is on the system. It probably should have prevented you from installing as it didn’t see a standard old 32 bit QT install. I’m willing to bet there may be missing installed Adobe components due to the proper version of QT not being on the machine.
So…start with that.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
[Gordon Frederickson] “I pulled the troublesome video track back and forth a few times in the timeline, and to my surprised it began rendering correctly. Some bug in Premiere Pro perhaps?”
I’d guess the codec had a frame it was hanging on…this problem seems media-based.
I’d transcode the media for future use as a media player will play back lots of less than well structured media, but an editor needs to access it at a different level.
As I said, there are lots of free codecs out there but it’s tough to do the quality control on them when you’re already doing the coding for free.
If you can reproduce the problem with any mainstream, professional codec like XDcamHD, DVCProHD, DV, HDV, etc, then I’d look at Premiere Pro, but this problem was weird…I’d say you may want to report back to the codec folks what the problem was…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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well…have you tried some other codecs? Something like DV or DVCProHD?
Shareware codecs can sometimes simply have some little hack or modification that simply throws some specific application off…
Does the Lagarith or Fraps material transcode into something else? Maybe that would get around whatever the hangup is…
I’m not very knowledgeable on the vast landscape of shareware codecs I’m afraid. They are prone to the same possible problems that any shareware application is…someone can afford to write them but testing them in every possible use is simply quality control that is impossible to do for free.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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Well…yes, “anything” could be fine…
I don’t know you…I don’t know if you’re the most experienced DSLR shooter within 100 kilometers or whether you’ve had the camera for a week.
I don’t know what laptop you have…or what display is on it, or what board is driving it…
I have no idea whether you’ve been a colorist for 25 years and have an intuitive genius about you or whether you’ll be posting here again in 3 days asking how the color wheels work in the 3 way color corrector.
I also have no idea what content you’re shooting…TIG welding takes some knowhow to get a picture that won’t simply be an exposure nightmare right out of the blocks…a bulldog wearing a tutu falling into a swimming pool while chasing a butterfly will run on some American TV shows no matter how awful it is…
I also don’t know what television station or network you’ll be submitting to, or what their standards are…
You are creating a television show with a DSLR and a laptop…neither being natively calibrated for that use, whether it’s POSSIBLE to get by without observing any industry standard image handling practices or not simply depends on too many things to give you any useful answer I’m afraid.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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On Frame blending…if you do any fast/slow motion or time remapping, I’d try a test output before deciding whether to use Frame Blending or not… It can be salvation or damnation completely dependent on content and circumstances.
I’d also recommend that any clips that are in 60i that can simply be run at 50i without harming the content (cows in a pasture, landscapes, etc.) should be simply re-interpreted in the project panel to 50i from 60i. It’s one click and the clips will now even run render free on the timeline and of course, be very clean with no frame interpolation.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Stupid question…
You’re referring to Premiere Pro CS5 (released only months ago) and not Adobe Premiere v5.0, right?
Please don’t be insulted by the question…I had a recent misunderstanding of this type…
Thanks
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
At this point I’d say we need some specifics:
What sort of footage are you using? (Framesize, codec, framerate, etc.)
What sort of sequence do you have? (As above…give the settings)
How are you creating the black and placing it on the timeline? (What video track…are you dissolving or fading it in with opacity or a hard take…give the details.)
What are the export settings you’re using? (Same drill…)
And finally…what is your “media player of choice” and have you tried other players with the media in question, or tested a different output format with your chosen player?
Let’s start with the basic troubleshooting and go from there…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Ah…helpful.
I have 5 GoPro cameras… I wish I had more time to just get out and play with them, they’re a blast.
On your issue…my first guess would be that since the GoPro only records progressive, interlacing isn’t an issue unless you’ve loaded the footage onto a 1080i sequence instead of a 1080p…
That leaves Frame Blending…if you right click on the clip on the timeline, a menu pops up…find “Frame Blend” and be sure it isn’t checked. Then find “Field options” and make sure it’s set to “none”…
Then in the Media Encoder dialog, at the bottom of the settings on the right hand side of the window, once again make sure that “Use Frame Blending” is NOT checked.
These are the first areas I’d check.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Expensive is relative…
I’ve got 20+ years in the industry and I think the capability available to an average individual is unbelievably inexpensive, and continuing to get moreso every year.
Your options are pretty limited with a laptop. I know that AJA’s I/O HD and I/O Express will work with a Mac laptop. I believe Matrox has some products for a laptop, but I’m not as knowledgeable about their product line. Black Magic Design has some I/O options as well…
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TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
It would be tough to give you transcode advice without knowing what settings you’re using.
However, doing the MPEG2 transcode in Encore won’t be any faster… It has to get done one way or another…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,