Comments on: Some Tips & Tricks for Adobe Premiere Pro when working with HDV

By: nnn

nnn — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:35:18 +0000

Hi,
I am having problem when i export my final video on Premiero CS4 and i play it on Windows media the audio and video looks fine. But when i try to make a dvd or i see the video on tv – on air the audio looks out of sync from the video.
What can i do to fix it? I am not very good on computers.
Hellp Please

By: Benoit

Benoit — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:06:30 +0000

Your message@Benoit:
reply here… so I’ll be notified… (I’ve just check the box for this reply)

By: Benoit

Benoit — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:05:11 +0000

I have the re-indexing loop because it crased when I’ve imported the footage. I have no xmp files to delete… nothing…
Everytimes I open the project it re-index everything over the last version of the .pek file.
What can I do ???

I’ve deleted all the .pek files and index it… closed… restarted the computer… re-instal CS4… nothing seems like working.
3 hours that I loose trying to make it working !
The footage is about 500 clips of 5d markII footage converted in .avi with neoscene.

By: aNgelo G

aNgelo G — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:19:27 +0000

@rojer108: I started using CS5 lately and love it. Much faster and stable than CS4….but not perfect.

I never experienced your issue.
I have converted CS3 and CS4 to CS5 and didn’t get anything…but never really had bad frames.

How do you capture your footage and what codec are you using?

When I started using Cineform NeoScene, all my issues disappeared: http://www.cineform.com/neoscene/

By: aNgelo G

aNgelo G — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:16:21 +0000

@Paul V.: Sorry for the late reply, I was busy.
Do you capture your footage via Premier?
Do you capture your footage in one big file?
I have run into a lot of problems lately with tape, whenever I capture one big file. The solution for me is to split everything. When I capture my footage I ask Cineform to split scenes. That is the only solution I found (or exporting your audio from the video and manually sync it).
I now always use Cineform to transcode and capture my footage.

P.S. I have a better machine than you, so it’s not hardware related.

By: rojer108

rojer108 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:22:57 +0000

I am having a problem with CS5 detecting bad frames in my HDV footage in inserting Red frames, It is not inserting red frames which is making synching 4 multicam clips very hard as it is stitching together the half seconds dropped frames rather than inserting half seconds of red frames which keeps the footage to the right length, this is very frustrating, as cs3/4 had this, what’s up with cs5?

I have a test clip with bad frames from a old tape, when I import in it cs3 and cs4 it detect the bad frames and inserts red frames, but when I import in cs5, it does not detect the dropped frames and reduces the duration of the clip. so when i open my cs3 projects in cs5, it is all out of sync as the clips with the dropped frames get reduced in length. it has nothing to do with the clip as i get a second of dropped frames in 1 hr, this is normal, but what is frustrating is that you will have to manually detect the bad frames and cut the clip and sync it again with the other cameras.

By: Paul V.

Paul V. — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:53:50 +0000

Out of the blue, my instance of Premiere Pro CS4 has lost the ability to capture synchronized video and audio. I’ve searched a variety of forums and the web to no avail. This isn’t the typical capture problem caused by underpowered hardware. I have a quad core Mac Pro (2009) with 12 GB of RAM and three hard disk drives. The fullest hard disk drive is at 16% of capacity (84% available). My capture device is a Panasonic Professional DV deck. Video that I captured back in April has prefect sync. I’m out of ideas. So, do you, or does anyone, have any suggestions on what this could be? Thank you.

Paul

By: aNgelo G

aNgelo G — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:41:35 +0000

@Hate adobe: Yea they always have bugs. I still edit everything in Premiere, but my main tool is After Effects. If I was to work 10h a day in Premier I would most probably go crazy, but AE rules for post.
You can try Vegas, it is a widely used tool.
Or go the pro way with Avid.

Here is a list of some NLE apps: http://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/roundup/12-non-linear-editing-apps-you-should-know-of/

By: Hate adobe

Hate adobe — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:18:59 +0000

Premiere cs 3 is an absolute disaster.
Capturing hd, audio is SECONDS out of sync.
They can’t fix it.
They should be called aDopey.
Never again i buy another dopey product!

By: aNgelo G

aNgelo G — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:42:21 +0000

@vipul: I am not sure.

What I know is that Win 7 requires 1Gb of Ram.http://windows.microsoft.com/systemrequirements
You also need a good CPU. HD clips vary depending on their encoder. If ever you don’t want to invest in RAM, try Neo Scene. http://www.cineform.com/neoscene/
I convert all my HDV and AVCHD footage.
More RAM is always good, and DDR2 is extremely cheap.

I work on a i7 overclocked to 3.6Ghz with 16Gb of DDR3 and everything works like a charm.