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June 8, 2012
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[CS6] DV - Bad output quality

  • June 8, 2012
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I have a problem with DV output quality in Premiere CS6 6.0.1.

Nonrendered  and rendered video looks the same on external monitor - blurish.

- Mercury Software only

- DV PAL sequence

- DV AVI video + Premiere title

There is also bigger delay than with CS5.5 with outputing through firewire. It takes about a second to update image on external monitor after clicking on different part of the timeline.

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    Participating Frequently
    November 8, 2012

    What's the deal Adobe, 300mb update (6.0.3) and DV field order is still broken (reversed), this is a fundamental basic of video editing and needs to be fixed.

    Participating Frequently
    November 8, 2012

    Assemble edit to tape via firewire is still broken, too. 

    The Timeline does not roll when Assemble at timecode is selected.  CS6 crash record only.

    Participant
    November 8, 2012

    We also have a bug logged in this to, could you give me some more info to the systems you are using when encountering this problem?

    Participant
    October 2, 2012

    Hey everyone I just wanted to give you an update on this issue. Two bugs have been logged one in which when "assemble at timecode" affects export and where DV sends PAL DV signal to tape in incorrect order. In terms of the PAL DV bug,  in between CS5 and CS6, the transmit settings were changed and it is the nature of the beast where plugging up one hole ends up punching a new one, I spent a very long time on thinking of an appropriate analogy and well sadly that was the best i could do.... In terms of a workaround for now, of course going back to 5.5 is not an ideal option but that is a possibility as is reversing the field orders in 6. I'll try to keep everyone updated to the best of my ability and again I apologize for the inconvenience to you all.

    Participating Frequently
    October 2, 2012

    Reversing the field order does nothing for me - DV output is blurry either way. Has been since I got CS6, CS5.5 is nice and clear.

    Participant
    September 21, 2012

    Id like to apologize to everyone for the inconvenience and delays that this may have caused you and your projects. The bug is currently set to fix so it is on the right track. I will continue to update everyone as soon as more information is available.

    Participating Frequently
    September 21, 2012

    I've just confirmed this problem is happening on both Mac and PC - looks like someone at adobe has screwed up and when premiere interprets footage as DV Lower field it is actually interpreting it as upper field first (within the software) but still indicating that it is interpreting it as LFF!!!

    Try manually interpreting DV footage as upper and it will play back with out the blur/flicker (it’s a temporary workaround but this is a unacceptable bug)

    I have sent a bug report to Adobe, I advise everyone else to send one in as well so we can get this fixed ASAP.

    Participating Frequently
    September 20, 2012

    I have the same problem (video is displayed with reversed fields through DV output) this is completely unacceptable as I work with a lot of interlaced SD video and I need to be able to preview it and check quality while I edit, and using the DV cable has always been the easiest way of doing this (has always worked fine until CS6)

    I only way I can get it to play out properly is by interpreting the footage as upper field, I also noticed that when I did this horizontal lines i.e. text became sharp when viewed through the program window, which normal happens if you bring in a video which premiere has incorrectly interpreted the field order i.e. lower field mpg – which previous versions of premiere always got wrong.

    I’m assuming premiere CS6 has a bug in the way it interprets DV files – it thinks and says they are lower field but in reality the software has really interpreted them as upper field.

    ADOBE PLEASE FIX

    Known Participant
    June 10, 2012

    There is more...

    You have nice graohic card and you are able to use hardware accelerated playback.

    Timeline is playing fine, without any rendering required.

    You now want to export this to tape, but... it first renders yellow areas.

    Why this?

    As I said previously it will not export to tape anyway. Machine goes recording but timeline is not playing.

    Mitch W
    Participating Frequently
    June 12, 2012

    Hi AC,

    Make sure that you've selected and setup the Adobe DV playback preference under Edit > Preferences > Playback. This should help resolve the export to tape problem. Make sure to report back if it doesn't.

    Known Participant
    June 12, 2012

    Hi Mitch,

    Playback settings are in default state, I've only enabled "Adobe DV":

    I've tried changing these options but always the same results: machine is recording but CTI stays at the beggining of the timeline.

    There is no option to choose External Device for Export as we had it in previous versions. Is this OK?

    http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/attachments/panasonic-dvx-dvc-assistant/26658d1336410913-cant-export-tape-dv-settings.jpg

    Known Participant
    June 8, 2012

    Any answer on catastrophic DV support in CS6?

    I'm forced to go back to old and great CS 5.5 if there is no any solution or patch planned for this.

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 8, 2012

    >solution or patch planned

    You need to tell the Adobe engineers https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

    Known Participant
    June 9, 2012

    Told them and I'm going back to 5.5.

    CS3 - nice

    CS4 - slow

    CS5 - great

    CS6 - nice ideas, bad implementation (unfinished work?)

    CS7 (or maybe CS 6.5) may probably come as what CS6 needed to be

    Known Participant
    June 8, 2012

    Just to add some more info:

    - Windows 7 x64 SP1 + all updates

    - GTX 460 1GB with 301.42 drivers

    - Sony HVR M15E recorder

    - Tried with or without Mercury HW

    - Tried with regular and legacy firewire drivers

    Known Participant
    June 8, 2012

    OMG Export to Tape also does not work.

    Machine is recording but timeline is not playing.