Premiere Issue

Mitsukai_Toori · Post by **Mitsukai_Toori** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:37 am

i made a video in premiere, i've done this before for prodjects for school but...

once i exported it the footage looks shaky, like really really bad. WHAT DID I DO WRONG?

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:09 am

Besides posting this in the Hardware part of the help forums instead of te Software part of the forums? Just kidding.

I need to know more of what you mean by "shaky". Do you mean that it jitters and jerks along, that it kind of lags as it plays? That it isn't smooth motion?

Mitsukai_Toori · Post by **Mitsukai_Toori** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:11 am

whoops...lol.

it jerks, it shakes, it slows down at points. it's horrid, it's like watching someone else's film of the movie..i've never had this problem before.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:22 pm

What codec did you use to export? HuffYUV and other lossless files are not really meant for playback, so if you used one of those (which you should have), it's not surprising that you're having problems. If that's the case, then recompress the sucker to something like XviD and see if you still have issues.

Mitsukai_Toori · Post by **Mitsukai_Toori** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:58 pm

actually it was in microsoft DVAVI format...i'm trying the other formats offered...hoping one of them works...thanks though.

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:13 pm

What are the specs on your computer? I'm guessing that trying to play back in DVAVI may be the problem, as Scintilla suggested.

Perhaps try MPEG-1 as an option in addition to XviD, as well as reducing the resolution of the final product (i.e. 360x240 instead of 720x480).

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:48 am

You could test your playback with one of the free files at this Sony Media page. Download and unzip. The file is a DV encoded clip; it should play smoothly. Systems as slow as 600 MHz (in my experience) can play DV files without trouble. If it works, then I bet something is wrong with your project; i.e. it's not making the file you're expecting.

virtuoussin13 · Post by **virtuoussin13** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:23 pm

I believe I've had this problem before. I exported a finished video of mine and then tried to play it immediately without compressing it using Divx or another compressor. It refused to play smoothly and stop and go and sometimes jump. Of course that was in AVI and not DVAVI, but still, I would reccommend compressing further using Xvid or Divx, and then try watching it. That fixed the problem for me.

could be wrong though...