Detecting bad frames in HDV footage

HI, i just installed the update, i was really looking forward to the bug fix to detect bad frames in HDV footage, this was the update to cs3 and cs4 had it to begin with -
Improved handling of MPEG streams
The Premiere Pro 3.2.0 update provides improved handling of MPEG files. Errors in the MPEG stream can occur during recording due to tape dropouts, record start/stop glitches, timecode breaks, and a variety of other causes. Bad frames caused by these MPEG stream errors are now better identified in 3.2.0 during file indexing and playback. Because older MPEG index files and conformed audio files (those existing before the 3.2.0 update) do not take advantage of the improved MPEG handling, these files should be deleted to avoid compatibility issues.
am disapointed as this is what i have been looking forward to, i guess am still stuck with cs3.
here was the post i created 3 moths ago: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3114477

Hallo,
Ich denke ich bin hier richtig.
Frage inn Deutsch bitte um Hilfe.
Adobe CS5. v.5.02
PC CPU- i7-930.
P6X58Premium Asus Board.
Win 7 Ultimat 64Bit
Das Programm soll alle AVCHD Daten von Camcordern direkt lesen könne und auch bearbeiten können.
Dateiendung: MTS.
Erkannt als AVC/ H.264 Datei.
Diese kann CS5 nicht sauber abspielen.!
Egal ob SSD Festplatte oder SATA II- Schnellste von WD- er spielt diese MTS Daten nur
mit starken Artefakten ab.
Der Störende Ablauf wirkt Pulsierend Rythmisch, so als wüdern die Farben
in dem Video abblättern wollen und verschieben sich dabei. Erklären kann man das nicht man muss es sehen.
Wenn die Datei gerändert wird geht es wohl besser aber auch nur dann, wenn diese Datei in der Timeline Gelb oder Rot ist.
Ansonsten kann man diese datei nicht rendern.
Dann muss man die Datei über CS5 exportieren.
Ich habe das MXO2mini Matrox und muss dann ein solches Format wählen.
Der mediaplayer von Win7 kann meine MTS Datei sauberst abspielen. Kristallklar.
Die umgewandelte Datei von CS5 kann dann CS5 abspielen.
Der Mediaplayer spielt die Datei dann nur totakl Verzittert wieder, da ist keine Freude am Videoschnitt zu erleben.
Hat jemand eine Idee was das für eine Ursache hier vorliegt?
Ist das problem der artefackte schon bekannt? Ich kann leider kein englisch und ich komme auch nicht in ein deutsches Adobe forum sondern lande immer nur hier.
Für jede Idee bin ich dabkbar. RoDo

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