Changing data rate (Adobe)

[Bladerunner04]

I've got Premiere Pro and I need to lower my average date rate because I keep getting dropped frames. Trouble is I can't find where you lower the date rate, lil help? Thanks in advance.

[edDV]

Loosing frames during capture or encoding or?

what is the capture device?
what is the source format, project format, export format?

[guns1inger]

More detail needed. I am assuming you mean DATA rate, not DATE rate. Is this for video coming in or when you play back the results. If you are dropping frames while transfering video to the PC, are you using firewire ? Have you shutdown all other software that you don't need to have running (this includes firewalls, anti-virus software, messenger etc). Are you browsing while you transfer ?

If the source is DV then the datarate is fixed and you have to find a source for your dropped frame problem. Defrag your HDD before each transfer. If possible, use a seperate disk for video transfer, and format it before each transfer session.

If the problem is playback, what are you outputting as ?

[Bladerunner04]

Yeah DATA rate, I'm having trouble during encoding. I haven't outputted the video to anything yet but when I do playback it looks terribly jerky.

[guns1inger]

If you mean preview, then ignore it as it really isn't the same as the encoded work. Encode to your HDD and play it back from there. I suspect that you don't have enough physical memory, so Premiere is paging, which makes everything slow and jerky. render it out to the HDD, shutdown premiere, and look at it again.

Try this. Load up Premiere in a typical environment - with the things you normally have open running as you would. Load up your video files and preview them. Don't worry if they are jerky.

Now right-click on the task bar (usually at the bottom) and select Taskmanager, from the menu. Click on the Performance tab and look at the following numbers

CPU Usage
Physical Memory Total
Physical Memory Available
Commit Charge Total
Commit Charge Peak

What do these numbers say ?

[Bladerunner04]

CPU USAGE-0%
PM- 523628
PHYSICAL MEMORY AVAILABLE-82224(& climbing)
CCT-479940
CCP-481368

So the jerkiness in the monitor windows is normal? Sometimes though this jerkiness stays when I export it as a movie to say something like this...

Export
Video and audio
Entire Sequence

Filetype
Microsoft DV AVI

Video Settings
Compressor: DV (NTSC)
Frame size: 720h 480v (0.900)
Frame rate: 29.97 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC (0.9)
Color depth: Millions of colors
Quality: 100 (out of 100)
Fields: Lower Field First

Audio Settings
Sample rate: 32000 samples/second
Channels: Stereo
Sample type: 16-bit

I haven't really been capturing anything but just using already d/l video