Dropping Majority of Frames Upon Import - Premiere Elements 18
Greetings and thank you in advance to anyone who might be able to offer assistance.
I am having an issue when working with an AVI file imported in to Premiere Elements 18. The clip is a short ~1.5 min capture of my computer screen's output captured with VirtualDub. During the video, the resolution of the screen being captured changes from 1600 x 900 to 640 x 480 and then back again. The captured video plays as expected (including all the frames Premiere drops) in both Windows Media Player and VLC Media Player, but Premiere will only render the frames recorded at 1600 x 900 (the first 1.5 seconds of the clip and the last 1.5 seconds of the clip). All the frames recorded when the desktop switches to 640 x 480 are dropped by Premiere and Premiere alone, but the audio is still there during the missing visuals.
I did 2 tests with captured AVI files, one recorded at my native desktop resolution of 1600 x 900, and a second recorded at 640 x 480. Both clips report 'DROPPED FRAMES' when I click 'Show Properties' within Premiere, and both have the exact same issue of not displaying any video when the desktop switches to 640 x 480 during the capture. Again, in playback outside of Premiere, the clip recorded at 640 x 480 takes up the full screen, with all the dropped frames perfectly visible, and in the clip recorded at 1600 x 900 all the dropped frames are there in a 640 x 480 box in the upper left of the screen.
After reading up on other potential solutions to dropped frames, I have told Premiere to both use smart fix and not, no difference. I have enabled/disabled the Auto Analyzer, no difference. Enabled/disabled Maximim Bit Depth, no difference. I have tried starting with the project settings at both 1600 x 900 and 640 x 480, no difference. Perhaps there is a codec or plugin or something that might help solve this issue?
I am really not sure what else to try so I will appeal to the wisdom of the crowd. Thanks.
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