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Still frame with zoom-in and scale (preset effects) looks awful when exporting to tape/DVD but great
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S***@adobeforums.com
2005-11-16 20:09:17 UTC
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The very last frame of my production of a total of 55min in Premiere Pro 1.5 I wanted to be freezed for several seconds with a small zoom-in up to the left (scale) and the audio of the clip should continue.

To be clear: the audio comes together with the image. After some seconds of the clip I freeze the image at a certain frame and let the audio continue. That itself is of course a very easy and normal cut. But now to the freezed frame (which is freezed for several seconds) I add a preset effect, "Fixed effect". I do a very small zoom-in up to the left so I add a "dot" for both "Position" and "Scale" and then an "end dot". I then preview. Looks great in the timeline. I let the audio continue further and I add "Black video" after my freezed-frame-with-small-zoomin-up-to-the-left and between both these video clips I put a normal disolve so the video comes down in black.

Everything looks perfect so I render the whole timeline by hitting the Enter key. Then I export first to Tape and then to DVD without any error messages. There the projekt looks fine except for this last cut which looks awful!! What happens is that when this clip comes to here the video starts to blink or relay many times a second between fully zoomed-in (made by the effect) and 'not-yet-zoomed-in-completly'. This is very hard to explain but actually I do think there might be a bug so I will try again to explain..

The cut blinks or relays between fully zoomed-out (the normal cut) and fully zoomed-in (made by the effect). Fragments of a second later it blinks or relays between a liiiiittle bit zoomed-in and fully zoomed-in (made by the effect). And it continues like this until the hops between the pictures get closer and closer until when the zoom-in is completed (because I leave it like this before going down to black).

I hope this was understandable and appreciate every help I could get with this. I have to stress on that I really have both rendered and saved up this project before exporting to tape/DVD and that it looks perfect only in the timeline. Same if I restart Premiere Pro 1.5 or even the computer.

Thanks a lot!!!

/Stefan
E***@adobeforums.com
2005-11-16 23:40:15 UTC
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Stefan, what is the source file format of the clip?Cheers
Eddie
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S***@adobeforums.com
2005-11-17 22:16:36 UTC
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Dear, Eddie. It is .avi and it was imported to Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 from the DV tape.

Regards
E***@adobeforums.com
2005-11-17 23:10:42 UTC
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Stefan, copy the sample project from your PPro installation discs to your hard drive. Open the sample project and create a new sequence. Drag one of the existing assets onto the timeline and hold the last frame in the same way as you did in your own project. Does it exhibit the same behaviour?Cheers
Eddie
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S***@adobeforums.com
2005-11-18 16:17:41 UTC
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I can try with the sample project this weekend but do you for the moment have an idea what could be the reason for this problem?

I mean, if I get the same result with the sample project, which I'm afraid I will get, then what?? And really, does it really matter if it will work or not - the files I import from the video camera (Panasonic GS-250, 4:3 format) will alway have the .avi extension and I think I use the PPro in a very normal way...

Any other idea or something I could try also? Did you by chance try this type of editing also? :)

Is there any update or patch or something that might fix this?

Best regards
E***@adobeforums.com
2005-11-18 17:03:41 UTC
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Stefan, if you can reproduce this problem with every DV AVI clip you have access to then you need to call Adobe.Cheers
Eddie
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S***@adobeforums.com
2005-11-19 22:14:55 UTC
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Hello again, Eddie. This issue comes up with whatever sample I try with. Gotta be a bug! If I preview the timeline with the video camera connected and if I right click on the video clip and choose Field Options >> Flicker removal, and if I NOT render before previewing in the camera it all looks as it should! But after rendering the clip (which the damn program does by itself when exporting) the same problem shows up again (as when I leave option defaulted (not to Flicker removal))! Very strange. This is not good. Now I understand why they call this Premiere Pro 1.5 a SEMI PRO application... :(

I hope (and was hoping in the first place) that Adobe looked into this forum and could give their comments and support too. Thanks for your attention though, Eddie.

Adobe, please help!! I'm starting to get frustrated about this problem/bug. The program is not exactly free and I would like to have some serious help with this!

Regards

Stefan

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