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Abdul_Majid
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August 22, 2012
Question

Premier Pro Slow Motion is jerky (not smooth) when exporting with Mercury Playback GPU Acceleration

  • August 22, 2012
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When rendering slow motion video clips (video slowed down to, for example, 30%), with Mercury Playback GPU Acceleration and with frame blend enabled, the rendered video is not smooth (is jerky). Frame Blending does not have any effect on the rendered output , The results are identicle with and without Frame Blend.

When software only rendering, and with frame blend enabled (ticked), the resulting video is smooth motion.

Please take a look at the following which demonstrates the issue:

https://vimeo.com/48133743

I am using the following:

Windos 7  64 bit

Premier Pro CS5.5 (with latest updates)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (with latest driver)

The video I am rendering is HDV 1080i format..

I have tried exporting in MPEG2 and M2T with Max Render Quality ticked. Both formats produce the same results.

Why does Frame Blending have no effect on slowed down clips when exporting with Mercury Playback GPU Acceleration? Is this a known issue?

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    D225342979z9o
    Inspiring
    May 31, 2022

    Hi I am having the same issue as you. It started last week all of a sudden. Using Sony A7S3 10 bit, 60 frames a second slowed to half, I am having bad motion blur even with very slow movements on my part while taking video. I don't know what to do about it. I am trying to search for a solution. I dropped back to version 22 2.0 and I thought that fixed it, but no.

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      Jaron Wong
      Participant
      June 22, 2022

      God. I'm running into this for months! It's unbelievable that they haven't fixed this since 2014.

      Looking for solutions but nothing can help.

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      seelenfaenger
      Participant
      November 2, 2012

      Thought I chime in here for some more information. I'm not a video pro (rarely do anything related) but from what I understand slowing down a clip and enabling Frame Blend should produce a smooth result. However, when I do exactly that with the current CS6 I get the same choppy result that has been the subject of this thread.

      So as long as I am not overseeing something in the process of creating slow motion, the problem still exists with CS6.

      To test it I used a h264 video @ 1080p60 I exported with Sony Vegas at 100% speed and normal settings (as far as I can tell) earlier. I imported it into a new project, slowed it down and enabled frame blend (for the clip as well as later in export). However, the frames in the resulting video are not interpolated but duplicated, so all I see is a slide show with 12 FPS.

      Renderer is MPE, software only (apparently my 660 Ti is not even supported...).

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      Dave_Knarr
      Participating Frequently
      November 3, 2012

      First, I have a video showing the slow motion problem in CS5.5 and CS6.  CS5 seems to be okay.  Here it the link to the video    http://www.studio1productions.com/blog/?p=93

      Also, you can enable you 660Ti to run in GPU mode.  Here is an article explain how and a software program I wrote that will do it for you for CS5, CS5.5 and CS6

      http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

      Dave

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      Abdul_MajidAuthor
      Known Participant
      December 28, 2012

      Hi

      I raised this issue with Adobe back in August 2012 - see above. Adobe have withdrwan the support case I raised with the following comments:

      "The case has been withdrawn as it is a known bug & has been reported to our Engineering Team for further research."

      So, at least it has been acknowledged as a bug. Hopefully a fix on its way in the not too distant future.

      Jeff Bellune
      Jeff Bellune
      Legend
      August 25, 2012

      I don't know what combination of hardware or settings is affecting your result, but I just exported AVCHD 1080i source footage that was slowed down to 15% using hardware MPE in CS5.5 and the result was silky-smooth slow motion.  I exported to MPEG2 Blu-ray using Premiere Pro's built-in encoder.  I have a GTX560Ti card using the latest drivers.

      Jeff

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      excited_Genie16B8
      Legend
      August 25, 2012

      In my test with 24p media, both hardware and software looked like crap at 30%, very stuttery, even with Frame Blend.

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      kayahacal
      Participating Frequently
      October 25, 2012

      Having submitted the Bug details to Adobe, I received a telephone call from Adobe Technical Support who confirmed the bug. The gentleman explained that this problem is known to affect interlaced video and not progressive - though i tend to disagree especially having seen Daves Basketball clip which was in progressive format - if you look very carefully, there is still a small amount of motion jitter in the GPU Accelerated clip but it is certainly much much better than the one shown in interlaced format. The Adobe Gentleman also mentioned this problem has been fixed in CS6 - I then explained the CS6 slow motion problem as explained by Dave in the above link i.e. whilst the slow motion in CS6 is now  smooth, there is a certain amount of background wobble or ripple seen in the clip.The Adobe gentleman said he will escalate this issue with his engineers. I have also been asked to submit to Adobe the link to this forum page and any other references and links that may be useful to them - I will do that today.

      I short:

      1. Adobe have confirmed they are aware of the CS5 and CS5.5 GPU Slow Motion bug - I assume they are working on a fix.

      2. Adobe have said this issue only affects interlaced video and not progressive (I'm not convinced)

      3. Adobe have agreed to investigate the problems with video quality in CS6 slow motion (in both software and GPU mode).


      I am having problems with slow motion and cuda as well on CS 6.02 along with the latest GPU and CUDA drivers. The slow motion is effect is very unpleasant and at times unacceptable altough other CUDA accelerated effects show no artififacts. Along with that, I noticed that apllying the effect through the effect control panel is not possible as when trying to change the %100 value, the value is greyed out. The only ways left are either time streching the clip or right clicking on the timeline and changing/adding the value. Lastly, applying slow motion on longer clips causes hangs in playback on certain clips. BTW, All my clips are 4:3 DV PAL so is the sequence.

      Regards,

      Slow Mo on 4:3 DV PAL clips

      Mac PRo 3.1,

      Dual quad core 2.8

      12 Gigs of RAM

      Nvidia and Cuda latest on Premiere CS 6.02

      Geforce GTX 480

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      Abdul_MajidAuthor
      Known Participant
      August 25, 2012

      This is the first time I have used this forum. I am surprised no one has replied after several days of me posting this question. Perhaps I have not described the problem clearly. If anyone has any questions or requires clarification, please do not hesitate to ask.

      I have since been liaising with Studio 1 Productions who have also confirmed this problem in CS5.5 - please visit the following link for more information:

      http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=455951077751730&id=149452058431969

      We are conducting further experiments to see if this problem also exists in CS6.

      Can anyone suggest how we can get this escalated to the right people?

      Jeff Bellune
      Jeff Bellune
      Legend
      August 25, 2012

      Can anyone suggest how we can get this escalated to the right people?

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