Xdcam Ex footage suddenly pixelating on render in timeline

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April 6, 2019
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Footage from both our Sony XDCAM EX1's has suddenly started to look awful beyond words when rendered in the timeline in Premiere Pro 12.0.1. It plays fine on camera, and looks reasonable in the timeline until it is rendered, at which point it becomes massively buzzy, blocky and pixelated. Have Adobe changed their support for the Sony XDCAM EX codec?

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R Neil Haugen

Legend

My guess is MTD is on the right track. It sounds like the preview codec settings are screwy.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Meg The Dog

Inspiring

Can you post a screen shot of your Sequence Settings ( click in the timeline and go to the menu Sequence > Sequence Settings)?

MtD

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mirandae10027541Author

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Hello - I've tried adding a screen shot but it won't allow me to, - apologies. I've been using the New Item - Sequence - XDCAM EX and selecting the one which matches the footage. ( (25fps 1280 x 720 Square pixels 1.0, etc)

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mirandae10027541Author

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Preview File Format: I-Frame Only MPEG (greyed out), Codec: MPEG I-Frame (greyed out, along with the 'configure' option button), Width: 1280 H: 720. Max bit render and Max render quality currently ticked, but have tried it without - (no apparent difference to this issue either way.) 'Composite in Linear Colour' is ticked.

I tried changing the video previews to QT Pro Res 422, and it has lost the truly horrific blockiness (Yay!) but retains some graininess as if the Gain had been accidentally knocked on ( it wasn't, I went out and shot test footage making sure it was off) .

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