Premiere Pro 2.0: strange green vertical band in Program Monitor

[spicediver10191]

I've just upgraded to Premiere Pro 2.0 and it is handling imported dvd footage differently.

I'm playing around with progressive 16.9 footage that I have imported from various DVD video movie sources. I converted and imported as usual using AVISynth scripts.

The footage behaves normally in every respect but one: in the program monitor window on the left-hand side is a bright green vertical band. It stays there when any of the footage is exported to an avi file or when I author a DVD.

A screen shot is attached.

Can someone advise on the cause?

Many Thanks.
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[Guiboche]

I can't say exactly what the problem is, but can tell you that Premiere Pro 2.0 and later don't work very well wtih any codec or preset outside of it's own standards (DV, HDV, etc).

But for a better method, use DGMPGDec with VFAPI. It also doesn't have the RAM/framerate problems associated with importing AVS.

Convert your footage to d2v with DGMGDec first. Then convert the d2v to AVI with VFAPI. Now you can import that dummy AVI into Premiere.

If you get framerate roundoff issues (23.98 ) open the d2v file inside notepad. Look for this line:
Frame_Rate=23976 (24000/1001)

And change it to this:
Frame_Rate=23976 (2997/125)

Now Premiere should read the proper 23.976

[spicediver10191]

Thanks.

Just to see what happens Ill try that out, even though my green bar problem has now been fixed.

Using DGIndex I just selected the "force film" option to convert my NTSC progressive footage from 29.97 fps down to 24.976 fps when creating the .dv2 file, then imported my the AVISynth .avs file into Premiere as normal.

I thentried a test DVD export of some edited footage to disc and it looks great - just as long as I convert it back to progressive NTSC 29.976 fps.

I can't say exactly what the problem is, but can tell you that Premiere Pro 2.0 and later don't work very well wtih any codec or preset outside of it's own standards (DV, HDV, etc).

But for a better method, use DGMPGDec with VFAPI. It also doesn't have the RAM/framerate problems associated with importing AVS.

Convert your footage to d2v with DGMGDec first. Then convert the d2v to AVI with VFAPI. Now you can import that dummy AVI into Premiere.

If you get framerate roundoff issues (23.98 ) open the d2v file inside notepad. Look for this line:
Frame_Rate=23976 (24000/1001)

And change it to this:
Frame_Rate=23976 (2997/125)

Now Premiere should read the proper 23.976

[Guiboche]

You might also want to check out my new guide I just posted too. I'm sure it will be of interest
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic338866.html