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October 2, 2019
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Jumping Footage

  • October 2, 2019
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I'm having an issue with some iphone footage in Premiere Pro, playback is very very jumpy and seems to have mixed all the frames up. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? 

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    Legend
    October 3, 2019

    heres some weirdness.  the interpolation worked when I downrezed to 1080 prores proxy in ame.  5 minute clip in synch through the end.  clearly ame not dependable on this... 

    Legend
    October 3, 2019

    you're right, the audio's screwed up.  

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 3, 2019

    Did you check the audio? Is it still in sync?

    Legend
    October 3, 2019

    yup, just did a 5 minute clip with interpret footage applied to the clip in AME.  It worked without issues.  I've attached 2 screen grabs, one showing the interpret settings in AME and the second showing the frame rate of the camera original

      

    Legend
    October 3, 2019

    ok, I'll use the blue reply button at the top...  But as I said, I just tested the interpret footage command in AME and it worked without issues.  I'll do a longer clip and see if there are any problems...

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 3, 2019

    Answers dont get lost just buried in View all replies (big pita as most of them are empty...)

    I tested AME in the past; did not work.

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 2, 2019

    Please use the Blue reply button so posts dont get buried.

    Legend
    October 3, 2019
    the reply button at the top of the thread? Seems counterintuitive to me and if you're following the thread, you'll get a notification, I think. Let me know if I'm missing anything here. And I'm assuming that you agree that you can use AME to interpret the footage to a different frame rate.
    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 2, 2019

    AME does not correct the framerate  It uses the framerate it interpretes on import.

    It will be constant but at an odd framerate; e.g. 25.03 instead of 25 (i am in pal-land)

    Legend
    October 2, 2019
    Compressor will do it, but not AME? but he's on a pc, so Compressor's not an option...
    Legend
    October 2, 2019
    Yup, seems to have worked. the exported quicktime reports 29.97fps in both quicktime player and in premiere, and when I play the clip in premiere it looks ok, and when I step thru it I don't' see any evidence of weird blended frames...
    and you can apply the interpret footage workflow from within premiere. Right click on the clip in the bin and chose modify: interpret footage and choose "assume this frame rate" and enter 29.97 fps (or 25 fps if you're in PAL land)..
    Legend
    October 2, 2019

    what format are the iphone clips?   The latest iphones use a different codec which can cause issues on computers running os's (at least on the mac).  And fwiw, the iphone footage that I've worked with does not have a precise consistent frame rate.  This can cause all sorts of issues...  recently was troubleshooting a friends project when I noticed that the timecode display would only display frames, not timecode.  the cause was the source clips erratic frame rate.  Ann, I haven't used Handbrake in years.  Any reason not to use something like Adobe Media Encoder...?

    Participant
    October 3, 2019
    The phone shots are from a mixture of Iphone 7 + XS Max. Frame rates are differing from 29.97, 30, 30.02. I have used media encoder and this has fixed the issue. Before putting it through media encoder I opened the same project file on my macbook pro and had no issue with playback. What would be the reason
    Participant
    October 3, 2019
    Does anybody why this wouldnt work on a PC but be fine on a Mac?
    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 2, 2019

    Might want to convert the footage to a format Premiere likes and can handle.

    Use HandBrake and be sure to set it to constant framerate.

     

    Participant
    October 2, 2019
    Ok thanks for your reply. I've never had issues with this footage when editing on a Mac in Premiere, Now I've switched to a PC this has become an issue.