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Mavic 2 Drone Footage - Very choppy in timeline and export - Urgently looking for fix.

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November 11, 2020
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Hey,

I am currently working on a project for a friend that includes 4k & 2.7k drone footage from the Mavic 2. When I open the footage in VLC it looks great and smooth. However, whenever I import it into Adobe I start to skip a large amount of frames and I understand that this is normal. However, it also skips frames when I export the footage.

I have tried:

- Playback resolution 1/4 and 1/8

- Rendering in to out inside Adobe.

- Creating Proxies - I can scrub the footage perfectly in Adobe however, when I export I start to skip a large amount of frames again.

For some reason the footage actually plays back smoother inside Adobe when I do not render the footage "in to out".

I recorded the footage with a:
SanDisk Extreme 256 GB microSDXC Memory Card

- 160MB/s read, and 90 MB/s write

- UHS Speed Class 3 rating and video class speed of V30 labelled as “4K UHD-ready” which makes it an ideal choice for 4K footage.

My laptop specs:

- 16gb RAM

- GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q Design (with latest driver)

- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Noah

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WontYouPleaseHelpMe

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It is all the problem of Premiere Pro because it doesn't happen in Avid or Resolve. It isn't a proxy thing or a drive speed thing. Again it is Premiere. Plays jittery in Premiere plays smooth as silk in original quicktime. Unadultrated clip and same as source sequence play jittery in Premiere. No transcoding in the world or proxifying will help. Might have something ot do with shooting at high frame rate on Drone but I doubt it. Premiere is at fault and your making us crazy. Fix it Adobe I pay a lot every month. I want use Premiere but ever so buggy in so many areas.

I suggest using Resolve or Avid. Resolve is free from Black Magic.

Thanks

Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

Hello, chatisclosedshyt,

Sorry for your issue with drone footage.

It is all the problem of Premiere Pro because it doesn't happen in Avid or Resolve.

I suggest using Resolve or Avid. Resolve is free from Black Magic.

Nice to know. Thanks for the info. Regarding Premiere Pro, can you give us full details about your computer system to check your system requirements? Can we get complete details of the footage? Run it through MediaInfo in Tree View and show us a screenshot to help.

Plays jittery in Premiere plays smooth as silk in original QuickTime.

A player app will have a different performance than an NLE. Sorry for the confusion.

It isn't a proxy thing or a drive speed thing.

Unadultrated clip and same as source sequence play jittery in Premiere.

No transcoding in the world or proxying will help.

I suggest using Resolve or Avid. Resolve is free from Black Magic.

That is unusual, as proxies and transcodes usually solve almost every performance issue. Did you use the QuickTime presets or the H.264 ones?

It might have something to do with shooting at a high frame rate on Drone but I doubt it.

Please share complete details about your media. It helps. Check out the freeware MediaInfo. That is the app we ask editors to use here.

Fix it Adobe I pay a lot every month.

I want use Premiere but ever so buggy in so many areas.

Apologies. Adobe support is here in the user-to-user forum and is here to help but to contact the product team about quality issues (complaints), bugs, and feature requests; use this link: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro

Happy to help with your current issue, but we need more info, please. 🙂

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio

tombinder

Participant

Im running a new Mac Book Pro with M2 Max and 32GB of Ram. Still my Mavic 2 Pro H.265 Footage is very hard to edit, or simply not editable in premiere pro. Please fix this.

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camf87154326

Participating Frequently

I moved my source files to an SSD and then exported to an SSD. No problems since! It looks like it was slow disks!

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fernandosa1104

Participant

Man I'm facing the same issue. I'm desperated because I have to deliver the video to a cliente asap.

Video plays smoothly while editing using proxies, but the export is so choppy. My project is a mix of DJI Mavic .MOV files, Go Pro and Sony a6000 .mp4 files.. Man I don't know what is happening withe DJI 4K frames..

Literally my first project on a very brand new computer. I9, 32gb ram, 500 ssd. All brand new components.. Why.. Why is this happening.

The drone shots are so choppy in the export..

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camf87154326

Participating Frequently

Finger crossed as I am having the exact same issue! Hoping we can find a solution!

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fernandosa1104

Participant

I made it!

Turns out the problem was the the video format. I edit on pc and I heard that Windows doesn´t handle the .MOV file format very well. Mac can handle this format without problems usually.

So I downloaded XMedia Recode, don´t if it´s the best file converter but it worked for me. I converted the mov files to .mp4 and it worked!

Let me know!

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Andy 1968

Inspiring

Try switching form Nvenc to Quick Sync as seen in the video below. Sometimes the Nvidia Drivers have issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L-erwmRxAU

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Jye Talbot

Participating Frequently

This sounds like a frame rate issue between the clips and the sequence settings.

I suggest you use a 25fps sequence and film all your footage in 25fps to make sure the meta is consistant across all your footage and your sequence settings.

On that note, if you have an archive of footage filmed in different frame rates, you can always go the rout of "assume footage at 25fps". this should help close the gap between framerate variation.

mikelwisler

Participant

I am also having this issue and my computer is an absolute beast.. it is not the computer like people are saying.. something fishy is going on with premiere and these mavic clips.. The rest of my video I shot is running perfectly smooth otherwise.

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Phillip Harvey

Community Expert

H264/5 is never good for editing, but in all the time that I've been editing video, anything that comes from a DJI product has absolutely monstrous playback. And that's on any number of high end systems at half a dozen different production companies, my own computers, etc. DJI has some secret sauce to their h264/5 encoding. That being said, I'm surprised that the OP has had issues with Cineform proxies, and regardless of playback in Premiere the final product shouldn't inherit any of those issues.

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Sami Succar

Inspiring

I agree!!!

It's a nightmare everytime I have to work with any footage from DJI. There's no way around it except for making proxies or transcoding the original media.

I have yet to use a system that can edit DJI's files smoothly!

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Did you copy the contents of the card to an internal hard drive or are you trying to edit from the card? You can't edit well if you are trying to edit from the card.

What are the complete computer specs, including hard drives (how many, what kind, what is on each, and how full)?

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noah0D4C17698317Author

Participant

Did you copy the contents of the card to an internal hard drive or are you trying to edit from the card?

I copied the contents on my internal SSD.

My SSD is a - Samsung MZ-V7S1T0BW SSD 970 EVO Plus 1 TB M.2 Internal NVMe SSD (up to 3.500 MB/s)

What are the complete computer specs, including hard drives (how many, what kind, what is on each, and how full)?

computer specs:

- 16gb RAM

- GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q Design (with latest driver)

- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz

hard drives:

2 SSD's - Samsung MZ-V7S1T0BW SSD 970 EVO Plus 1 TB M.2 Internal NVMe SSD

1. 50gb free (the project is on this one)

2. 807gb free - freshly installed it yesterday.

I will try clear some spaces on my 1. SSD and put the project on 2. SSD and try to export it from there.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

You need at least 32 gig of ram to edit 4K footage.

What kind of proxies did you make.

Render in to out as in making preview files or exporting.

Post screenshot export settings.

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noah0D4C17698317Author

Participant

You need at least 32 gig of ram to edit 4K footage.

Does that mean I cannot export 4k footage smoothly without having 32gb of RAM?

What kind of proxies did you make.

I downloaded proxy templates from Matt Johnson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b8VtZX62XA)

1280x720 - Cineform (if that makes any sense?)

Sorry I dont know too much about proxies yet.

Render in to out as in making preview files or exporting.

Preview files.

Post screenshot export settings.

I can do this later, do you have any suggested export settings that I can try out?

The video will be exported at 1080p in the final stage.

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