CS3 problem with footage

Jaime V

Jaime V

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Hello all, I'm hoping someone here can help me. I've recently bought a macbook pro and premiere pro CS3, but I'm having a weird problem when I capture footage. It ends up looking like this:



The last time I had this problem it was due to a timecode break; that's not the case this time. I don't get any dropped frames, and there's no Timecode breaks. If I capture the same footage on my old Windows machine (I am in the middle of making the switch to Mac!) it looks fine.

Also, if I open the .mov file in Quicktime, it looks fine there too! So it would seem to me it's not an inherent problem with how it's capturing the footage, but how it's playing it back in Premiere Pro CS3. To test that theory, I captured the footage on my Windows machine, copied the AVI file to the Mac and it looks fine there too...so I'm not sure what the heck is going on.

I've tried searching the net for answers, but either no one else is having this problem, or I'm using the wrong terms. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Jaime
 
why does that look like an interlaced field (instead of a progressive frame), what are your camera settings?

I don't know the answer to your problem but would be very interested in the solution . . . best.
 
yeah right...why does it lol.

I'm using he DVX100b, and this was shot using Scene File 5 (which is 24P). I don't believe it's anything in the camera settings because it captures properly on my windows machine.

If there's a flaw in that logic though, I'm open to suggestions.

On Premiere Pro CS3 Capture settings, there is an option under Capture > Video > Compression (which is set to DV/DVCPRO NTSC) > Scan Mode and it is set by default to Interlaced. I thought...hey that must be it...and changed it to Progressive but it didn't make any difference.

-Jaime
 
Let me ask this another way I guess...is anyone here using Premiere Pro CS3 on a Mac and shooting and capturing 24p fine? If so, can I please ask what your capture settings are in Premiere Pro CS3?

I'm stumped!

Thanks,
 
you should use a 24p DV preset project and change it a bit if you need to. it will automatically remnove the extra frames to give you pure 24p. if you dont do that, youre likely working with 30 fps material on your 24p timeline, or the cadance may just not be properly pulled down. either thing will result in you still getting those interlaced frames your seeing there. you can make a new project, and copy your project bin items to your new project , then just drag your sequence down to the timeline window and start editing , but it should be true 24p then. ..no more interlacing.
 
Neil Rowe said:
you should use a 24p DV preset project and change it a bit if you need to. it will automatically remnove the extra frames to give you pure 24p.
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Hello Neil, thanks for the response. I am indeed using the 24p preset in Premiere for the project.

At the suggestion of the gentleman above you, I played with the field options on the footage and saw the 'always deinterlace' option, which works.

I find it odd that I need to do that on the Mac, when there's no need to do that on Windows, but I guess whatever works right?

I do wonder if I'm losing any quality by having to use the 'always deinterlace' option on the Mac but from the short test footage I have, it seems to look ok, but it's not the same frame for frame as the same footage captured on Premiere on Windows.

Thanks again for the suggestions all!
 
Jaime, I am having the exact same problem, using the exact same camcorder model as well. I've tried fiddling with just about every setting in PPro CS3 for Mac and had severe interlacing every 5 or so frames when filiming in either 24p or 24pa.

The only difference is that my footage (.mov) still isn't passable when viewing it in Quicktime. I progress one frame at a time and can see jaggies / lines every 4 to 5 frames (although a great deal not as bad as what Ppro CS3 mac shows in the preview window). With AVIs that I capture using Ppro 2.0 on the PC, every frame is clear with no ghosting, interlacing, or any such artifacts.

I'm convinced there's something broken with Ppro CS3. My solution was very inelegant. I would capture raw AVI over firewire using a desktop PC running Ppro 2.0 under XP Pro, and afterwards would transfer it to the mbpro. The captured 24p/a footage was totally usable and flawless. I'm not sure you'd want to consider running Ppro 2.0 via parallels or fusion.

I was starting to think I was the only one encountering this problem all along. It sure sucks to be us right now.
 
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