Vince Becquiot
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I used Scenalyzer’ s DV reapir tool, and the miracle fix came through. I guess this will have to be another praise for such cheap, yet useful piece of software.
That still doesn’t tell me where those errors are coming from, but at least I don’t have to get that tape shipped overnight, probably would have cost me more than buying Scenalyzer all over again 😉
Vince.
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Hi Mike,
Well, this is where I got. Imported the footage into Adobe Audition, same drop outs.
As I am editing through this footage, I’m realizing that it’s happening about every two minutes, pretty consistently, not always noticeable because of silences. Why Windows Media doesn’t pickup those drop outs, I don’t know.
Could be an adobe thing, but I have a feeling those could be capture errors, maybe dirty heads.
I was also using Windv at the time because I was capturing on a laptop, that could be it too.
I’ll start the capture from scratch and post an update. Thanks for taking a stab at it.
Vince
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Mike, I have 4 dedicated HD’s which are defragmented weekly. The problem also appears on any exported files from that timeline.
The drop out is actually 2 frames only, but very noticeable, and appears about 12 times, at very specific points.
Vince
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It looks like these are actually PAL specs. You may have a better chance getting the right answer in the After Effects Forum. There are quite a few more European Mods who should be able to help you with that.
Cheers,
Vince
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Michael,
When you say distortion around the edges, do you mean within the safe area on people etc, or in the overscan area ?A distortion could be a field order reversed. Have you tried encoding a single file, say DV, when you know the field order is lower first, and see the results then ? In my experience, PP2 does not always recognize the right field order on import.
I avoid progressive unless I know it will be played on computers only, or projection. Very few set top DVD players deal with progressive very well, and the artifacts you are seeing are probably the DVD player trying to convert the footage back to interlaced so that it can be viewed on a standard monitor. Bottom line encode for the popular choice, which right now is interlaced.
Also by highest quality, you might mean 9 Mbps which isn’t recommended for burned media because of the potential error inducing rate.
Vince
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If you don’t have a website hosting service, you can use any of the free online image hosts.
I personally like this one, no registration: https://tinypic.com/
Also:
https://photobucket.com/Again, to go back to the posts above, I do agree with Aanarav that you probably should get a broadcast requirements sheet from the station. We can give you more specific directions from that. Otherwise, you may find yourself going back and forth as different technicians take a look at it at the station.
But that could be fun too 😉
Cheers,
Vince
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Well the slides and over the video track, since they are being dissolved with it, the video appears on the edges.
I don’t mind the black, what I am masking is the video.
Vince
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It is, but nothing that would be worth spending time on, and it probably wouldn’t be very realistic.
This was probably achieved by lights likely held by the dancer themselves.
Vince
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Go to the Preview monitor, and change the display to YC Waveform. Your video should be distributed between 7.5 and 100 IRE’s
You can correct this by using the level plugin, or you could try auto level, but I wouldn’t recommend it if that’s going to TV.
Using the level plugin, and keeping your display on YC waveform, lower the RGB, white input level.
I would take a look at the help file for other adjustments.
It would nice if you could post some screen caps of you YC waveform and video as well.
As someone mentioned above, if you don’t have a broadcast monitor handy, things will be a lot harder to fix.
Vince
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The easy answer is Premiere shouldn’t crash. Unfortunately, troubleshooting crashes is a science in itself.
The usuals suspects are other programs running at the same time. If haven’t done so already, go to start>run, type in msconfig, and go to the startup tab, uncheck EVERYTHING. Then do a restart.
That might mean disabling the antivirus (which in a way you shouldn’t have on a production computer), or other usually non important things.
If the crashes stop, then go back and recheck what you see as important one at the time.
If that doesn’t help, it could be just about anything else. Bad ram, that can be troubleshooted by removing them one at the time, or a hardware conflict. Even a firewire device.
From my own experience, and I do sometimes work with complex nested timelines as well, it pretty much never crashes.
BTW, what kind of footage and resolution are you working with ?
Vince