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August 13, 2020
Question

Videos from iPhone keep coming out jittery

  • August 13, 2020
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I am new to Premiere Elements and to video editing.  I keep having the same frustrating issue with my videos, which is that at a certain point some clips will suddenly start to look jerky (In Premiere), like it's a bad effect from an old 80s music video.  And I can't get rid of it. Here are two examples:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iuxCJ5LcKo

 Look at :29 or 1:02 where I've spliced in an alternate take and the alternate is all jumpy.   

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDxRsh3pPyo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link 

Half way through it switches to a film of my screen and it gets jumpy, same issue, alittle harder to see but the source video was fine. 

 

In all cases, the MOV source videos I'm pulling off my iPhone (I copy them to my PC via USB) look great on my phone and run off my PC, and then look great when I *first* pull them into PE.  But at a certain point some videos start to look jerky *in the program*...and then they export jerky.   

 

I haven't been able to diagnose it, but again I'm new to all this.  There are no FX applied, it just happens, seemingly inpredictably, and once it's happened I can't undo it, I have to replace the file ... very frustating.  I've looked on line and I think I've matched all the settings (frame rate, rendering)...it just seems weird that it seems to just happen.  

 

Any idea what's going on?  This issue joins a lot of other compaints I have with the program, but those are more around non-intuitiveness (wacky snap conrol, linking text boxes) and this is by far the worst and most frustrating,  Any help appreciated. 

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 13, 2020

If the footage is variable framerate convert to constant framerate with Handbrake before bringing into Elements.

Participating Frequently
August 13, 2020

hey Ann, thanks -- see my above reply, not sure if you can tell.  it's just a MOV file from my iPhone X.  Thanks so much!

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 13, 2020

Yep. Variable framerate and H.265. Both a pita to edit.

HandBrake

Legend
August 13, 2020

Which version of the program are you using on what operating system?

 

Are your video clips HEVC video? 

 

Participating Frequently
August 13, 2020

Hi Steve--

Thanks so much for your reply.  

I am running premiere Elements 2020 on a w10 PC laptop. 

I am filming videos on my iPhone X and then connecting w/ USB to the PC and manually going into the iPhone and grabbing the MOV video -- quicker than uploading and I hate iTunes.  (I literally search the iphone for that day's date to find the videos.)

I don't know if they are HEVC videos.  Here is an example file's properties in windows:  

Here is a link to that file if it helps: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g20gvicv4qm2bzs/IMG_5027.MOV?dl=0

 

Thanks again for your response!