CS4 Glitch? Or just me?

Fliques Osman

Fliques Osman

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I'm hoping some one can give some insight.

I'm using PPro CS4. But the footage in the Source monitor and Program Monitor is blocky and pixilated.

My Footage from tape is:

DVX
Squeeze Mode
24pa

My project setting are:

DV - 24p Preset
Frame size: 720 x 480
Frame Rate: 23.976 Frame/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2121)
Fields: No Fields (Progressive)

Also, I have adjusted the Draft Quality to Highest and I have interpreted footage.

However if I create a project that is not widescreen the footage is not pixilated or blocky in the source monitor or the project monitor.

Whats going on? I thought that if you shoot squeeze 24pa then you edit in widescreen 23.976 mode?

Thanks.
 
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Hey David,

I don't have any capturing software to take a snap shot. Is there any way to take a snap shot of the source monitor and program monitor using Ppro CS4

Thank you
 
manymoosh said:
Hey David,

I don't have any capturing software to take a snap shot. Is there any way to take a snap shot of the source monitor and program monitor using Ppro CS4

Thank you
Click to expand...

If you're on a Windows machine, with the image on the screen you want to capture, press the print screen key (prt scrn on my keyboard) - nothing should happen visually, but then open Windows Paint and do a "paste" - you should see the screen grab.

Save as a jpeg and there you go...

Also, I noticed you said you "interpreted footage" - if you've got 24pa footage, and a 24p timeline, you shouldn't have to interpret any footage. What did you change?
 
Hey Eric118 I interpreted the footage because Ppro CS4 could not do pull down automatically (in prior versions it could).

I shot DVX footage: 24pa, squeeze.

My project settings are:

DV - 24p Preset
Frame size: 720 x 480
Frame Rate: 23.976 Frame/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2121)
Fields: No Fields (Progressive)

When I import the footage into the source monitor or program monitor with the above settings the image is blocky and pixilated (as seen in the left screengrab)

However, if I import the footage in a new project with the letterbox preset the footage in the source and program monitor are fine (as seen in the right screengrab)

I was under the assumption that if you shoot squeeze 24pa then you edit in widescreen 23.976 mode?
 

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PhantomVideo: I captured in Ppro

David Jimerson: I upgraded -- started a fresh project but still the same thing.
 
Phantomvideo: All 24pa footage yeilds the same result. I contacted Adobe Support - but nothing.

Anybody in DVXuser World ever experience the same thing.

Thanks
 
I was experiencing the same thing when working with some SD DV footage. It looked terrible in the source window. But when i exported it using encoder it looked perfect.
 
So I am correct that when you shoot squeeze mode 24pa on a DVX100 you edit in DV - 24p NTSC DV Widesceen Preset

Thanks
 
Hey,

I can get it to render normally, its just cutting the footage in the source monitor and program monitor that was the problem. Nevertheless, I have switched to Avid.
 
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