"Fixing" auto-backlight camera adjustments in PPro CS6

For a recent event, I used an HD camcorder that I hadn't used before. I ran it in full auto mode. In several of the resulting recordings, the camera darkened the image (reduced the aperture) due, evidently, to some backlight source. Thus, my video has times where the picture darkens, then lightens back up, repeating the cycle at random intervals (see the example). Within PPro, I've tried Auto Levels, and that does keep things at more or less the same brightness, but at the expense of accurate hue (blues turn purple, etc.). Auto Color and Auto Contrast behave similarly. My question is this... is there any "easy" (i.e., non-keyframing) fix either within Premiere or, worst case, After Effects? Any and all assistance would be GREATLY appreciated!

It looks like the iris is shuting down for no reason,there is no backlight apparently. Anyway, In my (little)experience, I've been using lighting effects combined with keyframing and got good results in kind of same situation.

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I'm having trouble completing the round trip. I got my audio tracks from PPro CS6 to Audition CS6 without problems, right by the manual. But I'm having trouble getting that audio work back into PPro.
I'm working a mid-sized project (one hour class, two cameras, etc. headed for DVD). Got edit lock. Everything is done now except for cleaning up audio. After the audio I can send the whole lot to Encore for DVD making. But first, audio.
Took the entire sequence to Audition via PPro's "Edit...Edit in Adobe Audition...Sequence..." path. This worked just fine. It pushed all the audio files to Audition, Audition opened up and gave me a "make an Audition project" dialog box, etc. Nearly 100 files came over to Audition, on the right tracks, in the right order. Very nice. Made my changes. So far so good.
What I've read in the manual says that all I have to do when I'm done is "File...Save" in Audition, then PPro will have and use the changes. Sorta like Dynamic Link, but different. So I did the the project save.
At this point, things deviated a little from the plan. I started up PPro, opened the project, and no sign of the Audition work. Can't find a file anywhere in the project panel that says Audition on it. The files on the timeline are still the dark green of the multi-camera edit, not the lighter green of an Audition file. When I've done this for individual clips, I've gotten back a file with a name like "*Audio Extracted_1.wav" that shows up with the same green as the Audition icon on my desktop.
So I thought, fine. Not as easy as I had hoped. I'll just have to import it manually. But PPro doesn't seem to have any idea how to deal with a *.sesx file, which is the project file from Audition.
Should I be exporting, say, a *.wav file from Audition (how?) and import that into PPro? And if I do, is there a good workflow to re-sync this audio with my video tracks?
I'm confused. Don't know what I did wrong. Don't know what do to fix it. Don't know how to avoid this in the future. So any help gratefully received.
Bruce Watson

OK, now I *am* confused.
Just did it again (a different DVD project however), as described in my original post. This time PPro stayed open for me. So I sent all the sequence audio files to Audition via the "Edit...Edit in Adobe Audition...Sequence..." comman, then did my editing in Audition, and saved it the Audition project. Go back to PPro, and... nothing. No sign of any file from Audition in the project panel. No sign on the time line. No sign of any Audition file anywhere in PPro that I can find.
What gives? What am I doing wrong?
What I did get was a folder at the same directory level as my PPro project file, a folder in it with the project_name I gave Auditon when it opened from the PPro "Edit...Edit in Adobe Audition...Sequence..." command, and then two files for every clip in the project (a *.wav and a *.pkf), and finally two more files, a project_name.xml and a project_name.xml.sesx.
I suppose I can export a *.wav file to PPro manually. Worked before. But I'd like to learn the "correct" way, the way Adobe intends it to work.
Darned if I can figure out what I'm doing wrong though. Help???

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I have been working on a wedding video and I have needed to interpret some 60fps footage to 23.976fps. I did it the way I always do it by going to modify and interpret footage then changed the fps. This time however I can only preview part of the footage on the preview window, the rest turns black. If I take just the black part of the video, however, and put into the timeline it turns into the footage it is supposed to be. I still can't see it in the first preview window though!!!! I need to go through a lot of interpreted footage so it would be nice to be able to preview it! Any way to fix this?
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Hi Kevin, I will do the bug report.
Hi Steve, that probably is true. The NeatVideo plug-in in AE and PPro is also the same - at least the technician in NeatVideo claims that. So, then it must be PremierePro itself reading or interpreting the .R3D files incorrectly.
Remembering that NV plug-in asks the host application for adjacent frames, I made also an experiment (in PPro) with how much is cut from the beginning of the clip with the following results:
- as told before, if the clip is not shortened from the beginning, NV gives good results
- if I shorten the clip only one or two frames, the result is not much worse
- if I shorten the clip ten frames, the results are getting worse
- if I shorten the clip couple of seconds, the results are getting even worse
- the more I shorten the clip from the beginning, the worse results I get...
The clip I've tried has steady movement (the camera moves steadily in one direction). Therefore, I guess PPro gives different time references for the frame played and the adjacent frames NeatVideo plug-in is asking for. If the clip has been shortened on the timeline only a bit, then they still work quite well as references for NV to be used. And the more the clip has been shortened on the timeline, the less the "asked frames" work as a good comparison. It seems as if NV plug-in asks frames based on the length of the original clip, and PPro gives frames counted from the beginning of the edited clip on the timeline. Hence the bad quality.

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I'm assuming this is possible since Adobe is officially continuing support of both CS6 and CC versions of PPro.

It is a very valid assumption. Adobe has created a world in which their customers are heavily split between the CS6 version and the CC version of their products. This means that in order for continued seamless collaboration between project personel to occur, project files created in one version need to be readable and usable in the opposite version.
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Hi.
I'm encountering a problem in Windows 7 x64 with PPro CS6 (installed as part of the evaluation version of the Master Collection). It occurs both with the version I downloaded using the Adobe download helper tool, and the patched version (that is, after applying the bunch of updates of the master collection). I can reproduce it reliably:
1) Open PPro, create a new project and a sequence (HDV).
2) Add a MTS clip into the project, put it to the sequence.
3) Save the project
4) Close PPro, Restart it
5) Open the project that was just saved
What happens is that the application simply crashes/becomes unresponsive. In the monitor window I see that yellow-ish image telling me that media files are being loaded. I can't say PPro is a very useful application when it does not support to open projects xD.
What can I do? I simply assume that this behavior is not a feature, so.... maybe the problem is with my system configuration? Note that I do not have QuickTime installed, and I don't intend to do so (I'm avoding anything remotely related to Apple).

Why would you put an AVCHD clip into an HDV sequence?
HDV is specific to video from a HiDef TAPE camera, not a file from a newer type of camera
Please NOTE that the PPro CS6 screen may look a bit different
For CS5 and later, the easy way to insure that your video and your project match
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PPro cs6 error timecode.cpp-1014

A PPro cs6 project I was nearly done with started giving me a popup window when opening the project:
I hit the continue button and it carries on as if nothing had happened. So.... what's it mean? What can/should I do about it?
For what it's worth, I just made the final release candidate disk for this project. Which makes me wonder.... I didn't get this until after I had dynamically linked this project to Encore cs6 to do the DVD thing. The proximity of the error to using Encore with this project makes me wonder.... and PPro and Encore did fight a lot about the chapter markers (I set them up in PPro and exported them to Encore, even learned how to do a manual reloading of the chapter markers in Encore "from the source" as it's called).
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Output to DVD (widescreen, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps)
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PPro CS6 Blurriness

I think my issue may or may not be related to this discussion:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4488446?tstart=0
I'm having some serious issues with output from PPro CS6. The screenshots below should illustrate the issue very well.
This first pic is using the Mercury Playback Engine (MPE) with hardware acceleration. This is with the video paused. This is how the video should look. Notice how sharp and clear the picture and text are:
This next pic is still using MPE hardware, but the video is now playing. Notice how the text gets soft and the picture gets very grainy:
Due to the title being on this sequence, even with MPE hardware enabled, I get a red line over the title. So this next pic is after I rendered the timeline (using ENTER key render only) with the video paused. The picture looks better, but still slightly soft - at least the horrible grain is gone. BUT, now the text is very blurry and there were artifacts introduced to the lower third around the text.
Next is the same same MPE hardware enabled, rendered sequence, but now it's playing - not much difference, but ever so slightly softer:
The next pic is with MPE software only, paused, unrendered. Everything is now softer, and the pic gets blurry and darker. Actually, everything gets a bit darker and for some reason, the drop shadow on the pic turns almost black:
Next is with MPE software only, playing, unrendered. Everything still dark, but now the pic is full of grain:
Next is with MPE software only, paused, and now rendered. Still dark, but grain is gone from picture. Text is now blurry with artifacts around it:
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Anyway, I really hope Adobe fixes this soon...it would make my life much easier!

>hope Adobe
You need to tell Adobe, not other people in a user to user forum
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
When you file a report, be sure to include the information you did not include here
More information needed for someone to help... click these links and provided the requested information
-http://forums.adobe.com/message/4200840
-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/416679

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Why would you put an AVCHD clip into an HDV sequence?
HDV is specific to video from a HiDef TAPE camera, not a file from a newer type of camera
Please NOTE that the PPro CS6 screen may look a bit different
For CS5 and later, the easy way to insure that your video and your project match
See 2nd post for picture of NEW ITEM process http://forums.adobe.com/thread/872666
-and a FAQ on sequence setting http://forums.adobe.com/message/3804341

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Grrr
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I bought a brand new Mac 27" desktop that came loaded with Adobe CS6. Everything worked like a charm until the hard drive, 1Tb, developed a bad sector and the Apple Store reinstalled a new one as I had extended warranty with them. They recycled the drive immediately (like a fool I didn't ask for it back to get the data off it.) But luckily I have all my data on CrashPlan. I downloaded it and it worked great except I downloaded it to the desktop and not the original location so it got squirrely. I also have an external 1.5Tb drive that I wanted to make bootable so I installed Mavericks 10.9.3 . I then went ahead and installed it on the newly installed drive too.
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I am going to re-download the backup but this time to the original location (I still don't think it will work with Adobe. What can I do about this?
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You need to contact Adobe Support either by chat or via phone when you have serial number and activation issues.
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Fuzzy and Ann are correct in my opinion. Premiere Pro thinks that the duration on the timeline is just the first part of a clip that has been given a rather long handle, so to speak.
Just drag it out as far as it goes. Premiere Pro will not let you drag it out farther than the end of the comp under these particular circumstances.
Why not do that automagically for you? Too dangerous. What would it do with anything on the sequence out to the right of the clip? Overwrite it or push it?
Now, I suppose that a good way to do that would be to alert you about the problem when you return to Premiere Pro and ask you how you want it handled, but that would take a Feature Request. And I am not sure what would need to happen if you had made a bunch of changes to other links other than that one before returning to Premiere Pro.
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The Application Error event log shows:
Faulting application name: Adobe Premiere Pro.exe, version: 6.0.1.0, time stamp: 0x4fac933f
Faulting module name: HandlerMetadataEditor.dll, version: 6.0.1.14, time stamp: 0x4fac92b8
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Fault offset: 0x0000000000006748
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS6\Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS6\HandlerMetadataEditor.dll
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Thanks,
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Thanks for the advice. I tryed your method with same results.
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