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cristianmk
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April 6, 2019
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WEIRD problem with zebra in Fuji XT3 video files. Help!

  • April 6, 2019
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My Fujifilm XT3 video files are not properly displayed in Premiere Pro. What the camera shows as overexposed highlights with zebra set at 70%, appears in Premiere as black dots, circles and shadows in source monitor, and in the sequence. Interestedly, when exporting the video files the black images stay and render in the file! Also, I tried transcoding the original media during ingestion with ME, and the proxy files also embed the black dots for highlights in the video (I've checked them in the finder folder...)

It's quite a weird bug, considering that FCPX reads the files without this highlight markers, both at importing them and reproducing them. Also original media in finder reproduces them ok. It only happens inside PP and ME.

My mac is an mbp 2012, running the latest version of MacOS Mojave 10.14.4, and using Premiere Pro CC 13.1

Video settings in camera 4K 24p 200mbps, H265 (HEVC) 4:2:0 10bit, Long GOP, film simulation Eterna.

I'm attaching screen captures with more information.

It's an annoying bug, guys please help me! thanks!!!

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Correct answer brettr3018450

The new update seems to have solved this issue. Also my h.265 files playback so much smoother now. Thumbs up Adobe!

16 replies

Legend
July 14, 2019

OMG ! WHAT A MIRACLE ! THANK YOU LORD !  THE PROGRAM WORKS THE WAY IT SHOULD !!!!!!

OMG ! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !

Participant
July 14, 2019

Oh my gosh, yessss. Thank you for this answer. I've been struggling with this problem for a few months now.

brettr3018450
brettr3018450Correct answer
Participant
July 14, 2019

The new update seems to have solved this issue. Also my h.265 files playback so much smoother now. Thumbs up Adobe!

zmax.well
Participant
July 14, 2019

Yes! This makes my life so much easier!

zmax.well
Participant
July 8, 2019

I have the same problem with my 10-bit H.265 footage from the X-T3 when I use Warp Stabilizer. The only solution that's worked for me is to "render and replace" the footage in the timeline using the sequence settings and then adding the effect. It would be nice if Adobe could fix this, though; probably has something to do with the bit depth/luminance range.

eleazarw33251381
Inspiring
July 1, 2019

I've had the same problem for months now and am glad it's not just me. It's 100% a bug and the easiest solution I've found is to use an older update of Premiere Pro and AME until it gets fixed.

Legend
May 23, 2019

I did a google search earlier to see what the Fuji camera was about. I didn't get all the info I would have liked.

Apparently the XT3 is some improvement over XT2. It can shoot UHD and DCI ( UHD being 16:9 ).. 4K. The Fuji LOG ( F log) is their new gamma curve getting into wide gamut stuff or whatever it's called.. which is even MORE range than P3 ??

Anyway, I don't have one of those cameras. And I use Windows 10 machine. And I could probably put your 4K into my laptop Resolve but certainly NOT into my CS6 Premiere Pro

So this issue seems to be trying to whittle it down to what works and what doesn't work and there's a lot of variables.

I think a fair minded person would first of all consider the very human ( natural ) tendency to try to HELP the people who are having trouble with the Fuji footage, cause frankly, that black stuff looks absolutely HORRENDOUS.

Nobody here is in ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM connected to ADOBE. It's just a FORUM ( public ). People share their experiences and try to help each other. Some have a warped sense that they HAVE to SELL adobe and bad mouth other NLE's. Some have warped idea that PC is better than Mac.   People are just people, with very different attitudes and experiences, but in GENERAL everyone sorta wants to help … or they wouldn't spend the time here.

If you want to complain to Adobe, trust me, they don't even know you exist via this forum.

I don't think it would be helpful ( with what I have to work with ) but if somebody wants to put a 3 second source file from that camera as UHD (forget DCI for now )… into something like google share or whatever it's called... (3 secs straight from camera, which will be a HUGE FILE do download )… I'd be willing to check it out...see if ugly black stuff is in Resolve. I don't think I can jam it into CS6.

good luck

Legend
May 23, 2019

whoops… this has been going on so long, I forgot that I already tested the light bulb near bed clip ...which worked fine using resolve on PC win 10 ( on junky laptop ).

So forget I asked for a sample...

sorry..

Participant
May 23, 2019

Same problem here, though I shot my footage on 1920x1080. Working on Mojave iMac (a friend who tested it on high Sierra seems to play it fine)

So whose fault is it and more importantly, do we have a solution? Does Fuji have a say in this?

Participant
May 23, 2019

Hey mate, I have the exact same issue with my footage. I've spent 7+ hours with the technicians from Adobe over the phone and via remote support sessions where the manually tried everything on my computer, but to no avail. The only thing that I tried that works sporadically is to change my H.265 footage in media encoder to Prores 422 HQ. This fixed the issue on some clips, but then on others it remained. Honestly the biggest pain in the arse and I cannot believe they still haven't fixed this.

I literally think the only alternative for now is to use alternate software (resolve, FCPX) if you can...

Let me know if you've had any success.

Effram
Participant
May 15, 2019

Having the same issue in both After Effects and Premiere. Rolled back to Premiere 13.0.3 and After Effects 16.0.1 and the issue doesn't exist in these older versions.

Hoping it's appropriate to post the current bug reports here and that everybody will go vote in the hopes that this issue is resolved soon:

Overexposed parts of video blacked out – Adobe video & audio apps

Fuji XT-3 10-Bit H.265: clipped highlights render black – Adobe video & audio apps

Participant
May 16, 2019

Thank you will try with older versions. 

Participant
May 8, 2019

I have a Fuji XT3 and am having the same issues in Premiere when transcoding to ProRes through Media Encoder. When I import the original files into Premiere without transcoding them the issue is not present.