Adobe Premier Video Editing - Re: Combustion 3 footage into Premiere Pro 1.5 = Not so good

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Re: Combustion 3 footage into Premiere Pro 1.5 = Not so good

Michael J.

2004-11-21, 11:18 pm

Joel_Berry@adobeforums.com (Joel_Berry@adobeforums.com) wrote:

>Can anyone tell me why my export (Quicktime, Best, Animation, Millions of Colors+, Alpha) from combustion 3 (which comes into Avid Xpress perfectly) seems to have rendered only about every 10th frame?
>
>In other words, I have 5 seconds of bubbles, but only 50 different frames are displayed, with about 10 duplicates of each previous frame between them.
>
>I bring in the video just fine. Alpha channel is there. But when I zoom way in (so I can see every frame as I scrub through the sequence), it plays a frame, then 10 duplicates of that frame, then another different frame, then 10 duplicates of that frame,
etc.
>
>The video then is really jumpy and jarring. It even plays back perfectly from the Quicktime Pro software, so it's not a bandwidth thing, I don't think. All settings are NTSC DV 720x480.
>
>Any ideas?

Joel, can you tell me if you ever managed to figure out the problem? I have the same
trouble exporting Quicktime files out of Combustion 3 and importing them into
Premiere Pro 1.5. (Same file format and settings you are using).

What's even stranger is this. I often using Lightwave 8 for animations. When I
export my animations from Lightwave, it's in Quicktime format (Animation, Best,
Millions of colors). These import into and play in PP 1.5 absolutely fine! The ones
from Combustion 3 do not. Go figure! The ones from combustion always import with a
frame rate of 2.99, skip frames, and are very jerky. Interpreting the footage to
29.97 fps just plays the clip at 10x its normal speed. Also, I'm using a PC!

Would love to figure this out.

MJ

nappy-iou

2004-11-22, 7:20 pm

the last feature I did I had a lot of FX to do. We were cutting in FCP and
working in C* on a WIndows machine. I was happily working along creating
QTDV output from C* and then.. they stopped working in FCP. I could no
longer read them on EITHER the Mac or the Windows Box. No one had any idea
what was up. It seemed to be hit and miss. I blamed C* for the problem but
my workaround was to generate UNCOMPRESSED (none) QT files for transfer to
FCP. That was all that would work.

best

nap
<Michael J.> wrote in message
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> Joel_Berry@adobeforums.com (Joel_Berry@adobeforums.com) wrote:
>
>
>
> Joel, can you tell me if you ever managed to figure out the problem? I
> have the same
> trouble exporting Quicktime files out of Combustion 3 and importing them
> into
> Premiere Pro 1.5. (Same file format and settings you are using).
>
> What's even stranger is this. I often using Lightwave 8 for animations.
> When I
> export my animations from Lightwave, it's in Quicktime format (Animation,
> Best,
> Millions of colors). These import into and play in PP 1.5 absolutely
> fine! The ones
> from Combustion 3 do not. Go figure! The ones from combustion always
> import with a
> frame rate of 2.99, skip frames, and are very jerky. Interpreting the
> footage to
> 29.97 fps just plays the clip at 10x its normal speed. Also, I'm using a
> PC!
>
> Would love to figure this out.
>
> MJ
>
>