Premiere CS3 exporting bad frames

[spicediver10191]

I've had a problem for years where Adobe Premiere (first Pro 2, now CS3) gives me bad frames in most videos I export from the timeline using any lossless codec (Largarith, Huffyuv, etc).

I'm running XP SP3 with 4GB RAM. I enable the Windows 3GB application switch for maximum stability.

My clips are frameserved to the timeline using AVIsynth. I've experimented with the AVSplugin RAM settings but there's no solution there.

The problem can occur on both NTSC or PAL projects, on short 1 minute projects or a 90 minute ones, on both RGB exports and YV12 exports, and any size aspect ratio (2.35:1, 16:9, 4:3). There may be lots of bad frames or relatively few. I can't see a pattern to the problem.

Here's a sample of these junk pixels. They are nearly always in the top third of the picture, and usually black and white with bits of colour. The junk was once mostly green and/or red; more recently it's mostly black and white. Don't know why.



Here's snapshots of my typical Premiere export settings:








Please ask if you need more info.

Can anyone point me to a solution here?

[filmboss80]

What kind of CPU power do you have? Are your media files on their own hard drive, or are you editing footage on the same drive as your operating system? Deficiencies in those areas could be the culprit. Also, there are postings in various forums about Lagarith sometimes not working or playing well with Premiere, and indeed, I've had problems with it myself. After switching to HuffYuv as my lossless avi format of choice, it's been smooth sailing ever since. You might want to consider doing the same.

[spicediver10191]

What kind of CPU power do you have? Are your media files on their own hard drive, or are you editing footage on the same drive as your operating system? Deficiencies in those areas could be the culprit. Also, there are postings in various forums about Lagarith sometimes not working or playing well with Premiere, and indeed, I've had problems with it myself. After switching to HuffYuv as my lossless avi format of choice, it's been smooth sailing ever since. You might want to consider doing the same.

The CPU is a Core 2 Duo Pentium 3.2GB. Media files are on their own drives, seperate from the C drive.

Last time I tried Huffyuv the problem didn't disappear I'm afraid.

[poisondeathray]

You can try UT Video Codec as well

I doubt this will affect you, but upgrade your lagarith , there was a bug fix specfically for Adobe in 1.3.26 (but it addressed crashes, not corrupted frames) . I believe 1.3.27 is latest

Version 1.3.26 released on 09-25-2011
Fixed a buffer overrun in the decoder that caused crashes with Adobe products. Thanks to the all the people that reported this bug.
Fixed an error that caused certain solid color frames from 1.3.20 and earlier to be corrupted.

If the preview in program monitor doesn't show corrupted frames, it's not an avisynth frameserver issue

[spicediver10191]

You can try UT Video Codec as well

I doubt this will affect you, but upgrade your lagarith , there was a bug fix specfically for Adobe in 1.3.26 (but it addressed crashes, not corrupted frames) . I believe 1.3.27 is latest

Version 1.3.26 released on 09-25-2011
Fixed a buffer overrun in the decoder that caused crashes with Adobe products. Thanks to the all the people that reported this bug.
Fixed an error that caused certain solid color frames from 1.3.20 and earlier to be corrupted.

If the preview in program monitor doesn't show corrupted frames, it's not an avisynth frameserver issue

Thanks pdr. Nice to know I can rule out AVIsynth as the cause.

I'll update Lagarith and also give that UT codec a try.