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Inspiring
February 20, 2017
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Strange playback issue with exported video (Premiere Pro)

  • February 20, 2017
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I've been seeing this issue where after exporting a video using either Premiere or Media Encoder, every time there is a cut from clip A to clip B, I see a quick frame from right before clip B's edit point. Doesn't happen in the timeline. Has anyone else encountered this? So far I've tried:

  • Duplicating the sequence and re-exporting.
  • Cleaning out the Media Cache folder.

Windows 10
Premiere 2017.0.2 v11

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Correct answer theTallest

Welp, I figured it out. Looks like the proxy media I was using was out of sync with the original media by exactly....Yes, you guessed it: ONE FRAME. I had the proxies toggled on all throughout the editing process, so I never saw it until the raw media got exported. I was using Handbrake encodes for the proxies, so maybe that was the problem.

Phew! Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone.

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Inspiring
February 21, 2017

Welp, I figured it out. Looks like the proxy media I was using was out of sync with the original media by exactly....Yes, you guessed it: ONE FRAME. I had the proxies toggled on all throughout the editing process, so I never saw it until the raw media got exported. I was using Handbrake encodes for the proxies, so maybe that was the problem.

Phew! Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone.

Participant
February 21, 2017

Try trimming your cut points by a frame... see if the issue is the source.  What you're describing is (potentially) common if/when working with interlaced source footage and editing cut to cut.

Inspiring
February 21, 2017

Hmmm, interesting....So I cut 1 frame out of the beginning of clip B and left a gap. Exported, and saw black in that spot, as expected. Then, I moved clip B one frame over on the timeline to close the gap. Re-exported, and saw the offending frame again.

shooternz
Legend
February 21, 2017

Is this long GOP source footage?

Legend
February 20, 2017

That ain't normal.  How exactly are you viewing the exported file?

Inspiring
February 20, 2017

Through Quicktime. It's a high bitrate h264 mp4 encode.

Legend
February 21, 2017

OK.

Bring the file back into PP and check it frame by frame.  See anything weird?