iPhone XR 1080 30fps video tearing in Premiere CC 2019 on camera pans and movement

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November 4, 2019
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I use my iPhoneXR to shoot fast with a monopod. Been doing it for about a year now. I know Premiere can be finicky with iPhone footage, but usually my footage imports straight in fine.

And when it doesn't, I have dealt with any stuttering or video glitching issues using either Media Encoder or Movavi Converter (converting usually to an Full HD mp4) and then importing that resulting footage in to Premiere, and that has worked fine.

But now, with footage from two recent shoots, the video, even after using those two options (and I have been trying all combos of different conversion formats) the footage tears at times -- mainly on camera pans. Again, the video plays back fine in the iPhone, and the conversions look fine as well when played back before importing into Premiere. Again, the glitches appear only after importing the footage into Premiere.

Could a recent ios update have changed something?

Thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks - D

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

try using Handbrake to convert the footage to a standard progressive fixed frame rate like 24p (23.976 fps) or 30p (29.97 fps).

https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

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davidr26188693Author

Participant

Please see my answer to Steve_Griffiths above. It looks as if my Movavi converter is doing the job after all. But I will defintely keep Handbrake in mind. Thank you!

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Steve Griffiths

Inspiring

Are you by any chance working in an 'interlaced' (i.e. upper field first) Premiere Pro sequence?

My first thought was that this might be an interlacing issue with variable frame rate footage from the iPhone.

Pans will highlight any issues like this.

Also I'd love to see an image capture/ short video of what your 'tearing' looks like - might help understanding the issue.

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davidr26188693Author

Participant

Thank you for your reply. Perhaps I am silly for not having done this before, but it seems that when I use the converted mp4 footage that I create with the Movavi converter, the tearing does not appear when I render out the final .mp4 sequence. So, even though while working within Premiere the tearing seems to be greater than I have ever experienced previously, it seems to be a non-issue in the end. Whew, that's good news.

BTW, how do I see what my detailed project settings are (e.g. to confirm whether I am editing in 1080i or p) after a project is created?

Thanks again!

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