Adobe Premiere Problems

[Alareth]

Anyone here have and experience with Adobe Premiere? I'm having an issue with a video project I'm working on.

I have several .avi video clips that playback fine in everything I've tried; vlc, wmp, bsplayer, etc.

When I import them into premiere for editing they have a strobing effect where random frames show as solid green. I ran the clips through virtualdub's bad frame checker but the results were clean.

I'm new to Premiere so I'm not sure where to start to resolve the issue.

PS: I've asked about this in a few video specific forums but I thought I'd give it a try here as well.

 

[GeeMack]

Anyone here have and experience with Adobe Premiere? I'm having an issue with a video project I'm working on.

I have several .avi video clips that playback fine in everything I've tried; vlc, wmp, bsplayer, etc.

When I import them into premiere for editing they have a strobing effect where random frames show as solid green. I ran the clips through virtualdub's bad frame checker but the results were clean.

I'm new to Premiere so I'm not sure where to start to resolve the issue.

PS: I've asked about this in a few video specific forums but I thought I'd give it a try here as well.

Do you use AviSynth at all? Maybe write a tiny script with AviSynth to check all the details of the file. See how they compare to a file that works.

v = AVISource("videoname.avi")
Return(v.Info())

Load it into VirtualDub and see what it says. The information will be printed on the video itself.

 

[Wowbagger]

I recall having similar symptoms the first time I tried to edit 1080p HD video on a 5-year-old computer, with only 2 GB of RAM.
So, I would ask: How good are the specs. of your machine? And, how massive are the video files you are trying to edit?
The video files could be at a higher resolution and/or framerate than what the computer can handle, at least while editing software is running.

That's the only thing I can think of. If the machine is a fairly new, good one, then I suppose we'll have to think of something else.

 

[GeeMack]

I recall having similar symptoms the first time I tried to edit 1080p HD video on a 5-year-old computer, with only 2 GB of RAM.
So, I would ask: How good are the specs. of your machine? And, how massive are the video files you are trying to edit?
The video files could be at a higher resolution and/or framerate than what the computer can handle, at least while editing software is running.

That's the only thing I can think of. If the machine is a fairly new, good one, then I suppose we'll have to think of something else.

That's a valid question. Running video processing software can be hit and miss on systems with insufficient horsepower especially when working with higher frame rates or resolutions.

 

[Alareth]

It seems to be an issue with the Cineform codec that was used to encode the files.

 

[kedo1981]

Try converting them to different format like MOV and see if you get the same result.
When you cap your video save as full frames.