Limewire videos and encoding

i download vids from limewire but when i encode it and then try to update again, its still the same, what am i doing wrong?
for encoders i use videora and Imtoo

If you are using videora, try to look in the folder / directory on which you installed your videora. By default it is located in your program files. From program files look for "Videora" then go to "videos" folder. All of your converted movie files goes to this folder by default.
Or you can do a search on your hard drives for files with extension .mp4
Hope this helps.

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New Media Encoder Error: video and/or audio filters are missing...

My colleague reported this error popup window while using Adobe Media Encoder CC (up-to-date):
"video and/or audio filters are missing and the rendered output may not match the original"
I've been seeing similar errors the past few days. I can't remember if the wording was the same in the errors I saw, but the circumstances were the same.
I've never seen this popup error before the most recent CC update.
Some background info:
I queued up multiple Premiere Pro pproj files as usual from within Premiere
without rebooting or deleting any cache or temp files or anything, I start the queue
I have no special plugins installed in Premiere. Vanilla CC install.
Windows 7, 64-bit
This error doesn't tell me what audio/video filter(s) are missing. The output files, once I dismiss this warning, are perfect.
The major problem: It stops the queue dead in it's tracks. Sure, it might seem handy to stop and give you a warning, but when it's a false report and there's nothing wrong, it's killing us, because we queue up multiple files for encoding overnight, and we're not here to get the popups.
What is likely causing this? Is it a bug that this is appearing so frequently? Has anyone else experienced this besides my colleague and I?
Thanks!

Update for anyone experiencing this issue:
We are still investigating the cause of the issue and would really like your help tracking it down. If you run in to it I would be happy to jump on the phone with you and preferably do a screenshare as well. If you want to run some tests for me, this is what may help us track it down:
0. Please make sure you are updated to the latest version of Premiere Pro and AME, which at this time are Premiere Pro 7.2.1 and AME 7.2.
1. Simplify the project. Create a copy of the project and eliminate anything in the project that isn't related to the sequence(s) you are exporting. Then run the encode again. If it still occurs, move to the next step. If it doesn't occur any more, repeat step one and only remove half of the unused items (sorry, this is giong to be a manual process). Rinse, repeat.
2. Open your sequence in Premiere and press Cmd/Ctrl + A to select all clips in your sequence. Right click and select Remove All Effects. Export again. No repro? Go to step 4. If it still repros, go to step 4.
3. Make all the media offline. Export again. No repro? Go to step 4. Repro? Go to step 5.
4. Send me a message with as much detail as possible. Even better would be if you could provide me a copy of your project file.
Your help in tracking this issue down is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Media encoder messes up with green video and flashing frames

I've had this issue on three different computers now. I have Premier Pro CS4 with MP4 video in the timeline. Nothing too intensive. I export to Adobe Media Encoder with settings of H.264, 640x360, 30fps, square pixels, 3-6Mbps.
When I do this about half way through the encoding process the video goes completely green (have preview turned on to detect the error) and AME slows WAY down. Between long bouts of green video there are random flashes from frames shown earlier in the video. I've encoded full HD H.264 video on this machine in the recent past, so there's nothing wrong with the computer. Just like the other computers, something in the Adobe settings has gotten messed up. I'm not sure which component translates the premier pro project file to something AME understands (Adobe Bridge?). I tried a complete uninstall/re-install - no change.
I had Adobe Audition 2.0 installed briefly on this machine, but that shouldn't have messed anything up, right(?) I noticed that it installed Adobe Bridge, which would be a version much older than what shipped with CS4. Audtion was removed before I did the re-install of CS4. You would think that would repair Bridge to CS4.
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There have been other sightings of this issue on creativecow.net forums, but no definitive help. I now can't get my documentary rendered, so any help would be much welcomed.
TIA.

After days of uninstalling and re-installing...well...It turns out that PPro has a bug with H.264 (.mp4) files on the time line. I swapped all the files to the online versions (full HD, .mov, H.264, 50Mbps) and media encoder didn't crash anymore.
What's strange is that I used media encoder to create the offline .mp4 files for editing. The Mainconcept codec created the files, so you would think it wouldn't puke and die when using these files to encode the sequence to a final output - considering it's using the mainconcept codec to do it again. Dumb. There's likely a bug somewhere in the Mainconcept codec causing my intense headache.
So my issue is *kinda* fixed. I just need to find a better codec for intermediate offline editing. The full HD copies cause renders and encoding to slow down by a factor of 6. Adobe, if you're listening, please fix this.

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I do a lot of SONY HRD FX1 native 1080i HDV capture with Final Cut Pro 5 on my PowerBook 1.3 GHz G4..
Before Apple started supporting HDV, getting the audio and video lined up was such a nightmare that it wasn't even worth working on projects.
My material works great inside FCP 5, but I have had similar problems to what you describe when making the DVDs
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I have been using MPEG Power Professional (Heuris Inc) to do my MPEG2 video encodes as well as my audio encodes and I haven't had the problem lately.

PE8 and Encoding/Burning Error: Unknown Error:2131042562

Hello all:
I'm new to the forum and came across an issue. I had initially responded to an old post but at the direction of a couple veterans they guided me into doing a fresh post and to provide a lot more detail up front (thank you Bill & Steve). I apologize if I get too wordy everyone. Here it goes:
The end result is that I started working on a big project and when selecting "share" I'd burn to a DVD. It would go through all the processes of encoding and on the final step towards the end Premiere would give me the following message: Unknown Error: 2131042562. However a couple times it appeared I got further in which it would say it was burning to disc and then my system would reboot. Hard to say for sure what state it was at because I'd typically miss the reboot due to length of encoding process. To provide a little history, I suspected my system was infected a few months ago so I decided to rebuild and in the process upgrade the OS. I was running Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit. I ended up doing a low-level format and installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Followed the rebuild to a "T" plus have an IT background and have been building PCs for many years. Prior to rebuild I didn't appear to have a problem and burning discs from within PE worked. This is first attempt to burn disc through PE since the rebuild. Everything looks fine with latest drivers installed and installed in the order that Dell documents. Enough of that and let me get to PC spec's and the project details.
Dell XPS 8100
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Intel i7-860 2.8GHz Quad Core
8GB RAM
Intel SATA RAID Controller - 3400 Series
2 x Seagate Barracuda 750GB HDD, 7200RPM SATA 32MB Cache (ST3750528AS) in RAID1 Configuration
Single partition, C:\ Drive, with 597GB free (probably not optimal for performance)
NVidia GeForce GTS 240 Display Adapter
DVD/BLURAY Combo burner: HLDS BH30N (can burn bluray) - running latest firmware A103
Pagefile: System Managed; min 16MB, recommended 12226MB, currently allocated 8151MB
Video camera used: JVC Z-HD300AU (Full HD 1920x1080; AVCHD)
Project:
Basically putting together a dance team video for my daughter's end of season banquet. It's a compilation of both mine and another person's video. I used my camera and the other individual's was also a JVC but not High Def.
Timeline - Just over 38 minutes
Settings; NTSC --> AVCHD-->Full HD 1080i 30 5.1 Channel
Intro was a "Universal Studios" intro that I found on the internet-->MPEG-4 Movie
Had 3 PE title screens with some effects and seperate audio playing a .m4a song
From there probably a total of 9 video clips consisting of other person's video--> .MOD file extension
Then has 20 photos with title screen with the girls with both the photo and names fading in/out.
During slideshow I had another audio soundtrack playing in background--> .m4a
Then came another 20 video clips mostly from my camera --> .MTS file extension
Throughput the video I either used some fade in/out between video clips or used some of PE's transitions
What I've done for testing:
- I tested the burner and burned a data disc with Roxio without issue.
- I created a new project using same NTSC settings. I first only took .MOD files and tried ripping and then tried it again with only using some of my clips (.MTS). Both were unsuccessful.
- I then changed NTSC format and install of Full HD I just select "HD 1080i 30 5.1 Channel". Again just creating a much smaller project with the steps prior and still no luck.
- I've also tried using bluray media instead of DVD+R but again it did not work.
- I've even disabled McAfee during the process of burning to disc to see if that made a difference.
- The only successful attempts I've had is when I share to my PC and export to a file. Was able to do that with my original project plus a couple of my test ones. I've done both an AVI and MPEG. Trying to determine which is really the best option/quality.
I've read that some people recommend exporting to a file because it provides a backup of the video and you don't have to rely on PE. That might be fine but want to be able to retain my disc menu's and on the occassion in which I record at the highest resolution on my video camera, that I can burn a bluray disc (which I have been successful doing through PE before). So might be missing a step on maintaining my menu and might need recommendation of a 3rd party software to keep menu and burn to bluray. Especially if I can't get past my issue. The end objective is to be able to rip a DVD so I can give one to each of the dance team girls.
At this stage I don't think I have more to add but I'm sure I overlooked something. I apologize if I put anyone to sleep. It is very possible that I'm overlooking something but have to admit that doing video editing and building home DVDs are new to me so still striving to learn more in this area. I hope that someone has had a similar experience or can perhaps give me some advice. I've combed through the system event logs and did go through the computer and can't find a single thing wrong with the OS or hardware. I know back in the day that people would recommend setting the min/max of the pagefile the same to reduce fragmentation of the pagefile. Not sure if this holds true to Windows 7 or not. Would think that there might be pros/cons to either configuration. Maybe something is awry with my rebuild.
Thanks again for everyone who have been patient enough to read through my post. Thanks in advance for any help that you might be able to provide.
Best regards,
Mark

Mark,
Well-stated. Here are a few comments, and some questions:
You have both HD and SD material, and plan on burning to DVD-Video, which will be SD. How are you handling the mixed footage?
It appears that you started with an HD Project Preset, to match your JVC's source video. Is that correct?
What about that SD material? Did you just Scale it up to match the HD material, or did you leave it with full letter-boxing and pillar-boxing, i.e. black bars all around?
Instead of the iTunes music, can you convert the M4a files to PCM/WAV @ 48KHz 16-bit? Adobe programs can have issues with MPEG Audio, whether MP3, or M4a. The great free audio-editing program, Audacity, should be able to do this easily. This might have zero to do with the issue, but is the workflow that is 100% for me, though I use Adobe Audition to convert to PCM/WAV.
What are the pixel x pixel dimensions of those still images? Are you Importing overly-large stills, and getting PrE to Scale them down to the Frame Size of your Project?
As for your Page File, I recommend setting that up to be statically managed, and for two reasons:
With a statically managed Page File, the OS is freed of having to calculate on the fly, and that takes CPU cycles and reads and writes.
Depending on the CPU and the I/O sub-system, if the dynamically managed Page File is expanded a bit more slowly, than the program is expecting, it can fault, rather than wait, assuming that the system has hung.
Though you have two physical HDD's with the RAID 1, they are seen as one, plus the redundancy. It also seems that you have partitions. Is your D:\ just the Dell Recovery Disc? If so, then everything is on one HDD, the OS, the program, the media, the Scratch Disks, everything. This can cause bottlenecks when editing and Exporting/Sharing. Is your RAID controlled via software, or by a dedicated hardware controller card? If via software, then there are many CPU cycles used for that, and especially with a RAID 1.
You have adequate free space, and that is better than many. PrE requires plenty of HDD space for the very large working files.
Do you have Windows Indexing ON for your HDD's? This can really get in the way, when editing.
Now, there are two ways to Burn a DVD - Burn to Disc (where you are getting your errors - right?), and Burn to Folder, which will retain the full Menu system and all authoring. That will create the full DVD VIDEO_TS folder structure, with the IFO, BUP and VOB's. All will be included. Then, one can use a burning utility, like the great, free ImgBurn, to do the physical burn. This also has the advantage of allowing one to slow down the burn speed. About half of max. is better.
When you do burn, I strongly recommend using either Verbatim, or Taiyo-Yuden blank media.
I would also carefully check your Timeline for ANY gaps in your Video. Those can cause Transcoding errors. This ARTICLE will give you some background and tips.
Glad that you have turned OFF your anti-virus software, when you are editing and authoring. Especially the newer real-time monitoring, has caused no end to grief, as it insists on scanning every file accessed, and this can cause many errors.
For the BSOD/reboot, this ARTICLE might be useful.
It seems that you have already addressed most of the things in this ARTICLE, but perhaps there is something that has been overlooked.
I am sure that I am overlooking some things, and hope that others will have ideas.
Good luck,
Hunt

A workflow to burn AVCHD camcorder video and 5.1 sound to BluRay disc.

A workflow to burn AVCHD camcorder video and 5.1 sound to BluRay disc.
After weeks searching through many posts by the Forum’s experts with Final Cut Pro and Compressor, I have a crude workflow that seems to work for me, and might be of interest to others. This information I couldn’t find in the Help files of either FCP or Compressor, and would appreciate feedback on other options. Thanks to the Forum contributors who have helped me with suggestions.
I have successfully burned a BluRay DVD of the video and audio outputs of my new Panasonic AVCHD camcorder, that is, 1920x1080 video and 5.1 surround sound, using Final Cut Studio 2 (FCP 7.0.2, Compressor 3.5.4.) on an Intel iMac with OS 10.6.3
Using AUNSOFT-PAVTUBE or CLIPWRAP, I converted the camcorder’s MTS files to ProRes 422 .mov files containing 5.1 six channels of audio.
In FCPro, set the Sequence / Settings / Audio Outputs to 5.1 Monitoring:
     L+R Stereo,     Stereo
     Center             Dual Mono
     LFE                Dual Mono
     Ls +Rs            Stereo
Uncheck the “Downmix…to Stereo” in Warning box that pops up when this step is completed.
Drag the ProRes .mov file into the time line of FCP 7:
The next steps are important for assigning each of the six audio channels to the Dolby 5.1 configuration (L, R, C, Lfe, Ls, Rs). This step was new to me and something I couldn’t find in the FCPro or Compressor Help file manual. If anyone can reference a page number, I would appreciate that info.
In the FCP time line, unlink the video from the audio channels (Linked Selection) in the upper right corner of the FCP time line.
Select each audio channel, then right click in the area of the blank column near the padlock. Assign A1, A2, A3 etc to each of the audio channels as they fit the Dolby configuration ( L+R, C, Lfe, Ls+Rs) This process is kind of clunky and it may take patience to accomplish.
The best Forum ideas that I could find for setting up the six channel audio came from the following posts which I credit for their help:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/9095726#9095726
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12525373#12525373
In FCPro, Mark In and Out points, Select In to Out
Under File / Share option ………Select BluRay job……then Select either “Export” or “Send to Compressor”
(Note: At this point, the Option Export which enables FCPro to burn a BluRay DVD, seems to work well, and the resulting DVD video and six channels of audio seems as good as that produced by the more complicated option of “Send to Compressor”……..which is described below.)
If the Send to Compressor option is selected, Compressor is automatically started by this selection. At this point, do not Quit FCPro, because Compressor needs to transfer file data (or something like that) to Compressor.
In the job pane of Compressor, will exist two targets, H264 for BluRay and Dolby Digital.
I deleted the Dolby Digital and replaced it with Dolby Digital Professional Auto.
Clicking any where in the Sequence 1 job pane (not in H264 nor Dolby target rows) will reveal the A/V attributes:
Under the Job Action tab, select the BluRay unit that will eventually do the burning.
Clicking on the target H264 for BluRay located in the larger Job Pane reveals the settings I chose:
Clicking on the target Dolby Digital Professional (Auto) reveals these settings I chose:
I left settings on the Bitstream tab untouched. However the Preprocessing tab, I set the Compression Preset to “None”.
I found that turning on the BluRay burner with a preloaded BD/RE is best to do at this time, or even better, to energize the burner at the time that the “Send to Compressor” function is activated.
When settings are complete, select “Submit” in the lower corner of the Compressor larger pane and processing will begin, and a status pane indicating time elapsed and time remaining will appear. These estimates are not very accurate.
I have found that my 1 minute test video was initially estimated to require about two hours of processing time, but actually required only 1 hour which is still unusually long. Based on my experience, be prepared for an “overnight” processing to occur for longer movie durations.
This is the part of the overall process I need to understand better: How to estimate the duration to encode and burn 1 minute of video / audio? This 1 hour duration for 1 minute of video/audio was the same whether I SHARE-Exported to FCPro to burn DVD, or SHARE-Send to Compressor option.
Wondering if the encoding of the six 5.1 audio channels caused the lengthy processing(?). Perhaps settings that I made in Compressor affected time to process and burn.
Finally, I hope this poorly written process will help someone who has been looking for the same information as I had been. I would appreciate feedback from those who have already done this; what OS are you using, what hardware are you using? What software package have you tried. And lastly, Thanks to all who contribute to these Community Forums, who take the time to detail their processes. You all have helped me to get this far.
BoBo

Go to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4719249
BoBo

Premiere Pro CC and Encoder CC ( 7.1.0 ) produce different outputs dependant on Queue or Export meth

I have used a standard workflow for many months but recently something has changed. If I create a simple 720x576 sequence with video and then send this to Media encoder I get different results dependant on if I queue or export the sequence. If I export directly from the application then the resulting file is perfect ( MPEG2/QT ) , however if I queue the file and then export the resulting file contains small black vertical bands at either side of the image an the resulting image looks squashed.
Testing the same workflow in CS6 does not have the issue.
Has something changed with the latest 7.1.0 release ???
Can anyone make a simple test and let me know ??
If you simply queue to the Media encoder and view the window you can see the added bands ??
I am using MAC OSX 10.7.5 as a platform
Thanks

Here you can download the trial they are all the first build (7.0)
http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cc-direct-download-links.html
Updates can be found here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=98&platform =Windows
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=98&platform =Macintosh
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I have to cut 201 individual video and audio files for separate scenes from an 11-minute animated episode and save them as separate MP4 video and MP3 audio files. What is the most efficient way to do this?

Without knowing more about your project, it's hard to even guess at the most efficient workflow.
Like: Do these clips have audio or are you adding it? What format are these clips? What is the intended delivery for the 11 minute movie?
As a general matter, one creates an event, imports clips to it. Then organizes the clips according to the needs of job, using keyword collections and ratings. Then creates a project and starts a rough cut by marking ranges in the event browser and editing to the time line. Some people start with the music, making that the primary storyline mark where they want the edit to be and cut to that.
Upon finishing, one can choose one or more of the "destination" presets. It's possible to export Audio only or Video only or both. MP3 is one of the audio choices. Some of the presets are MP4. If you want possibly better quality and more control, export the files as master files and encode in Compressor.
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WMV3Server
To play avi files with WMV3/9 video and MP3 audio encoding on Mac OS X as of 2005-01-24 you will need:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
WMV3Server
Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X
An .avi file containing WMV3 video and MP3 audio.
Instructions:
Launch the WMV3Server java application and click the "Open" button.
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Next, click the "Start" button. The movie will be cached and WMV3Server will display "Server Started"
Open Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X. Pull down the "File" menu on the menu bar at the top of the screen and select "Open URL..." Enter the following address:
mmst://localhost:1755/
Windows Media Player should connect, buffer and play.
The download page (in Japanese) for WMV3Server is here:
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/8128/
The download link is:
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Here's a sample file (apparently a beer commercial.):
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Video and audio freezeing

For some reason my computer has been running super slow. When watching video like youtube and ustream. My video and audio will randomly start freezing which is super annoying, kind of like a skipping cd or dvd. I have reset safari and cache and its still doing it. i dont know what else to do any sujestions? thanks

Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

What should be the quality of video and audio for bandwidth 768KB

Hello Friends
We are provoding 768kB bandwidth for our connection. Can any body tell us what should be the quality of video and audio we can set that does not effect frame rate which is 24 FPS.
thanks in advance.

Hi Samir
You could try out the bitrate calculator at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/apps/flv_bitrate_calculator/ . It lets you try various encoding settings to see what fits best for the bandwidth available to you.
Regards
Mamata

What is the best resolution (1080, 720?) video and the best sound (PCM/AAC, bit, and kHz) that I can burn onto a DVD after creating in iMovie?

I have a Zoom HD Q3 video camera that also records good sound. An Apple Genius once told me that a DVD can only reproduce a certain level of quality in video and sound just like a CD can only produce a certain level of sound quality. For instance you can't burn true high definition video onto a DVD. You would need a Blue Ray Disc. But I forgot the specific data that the Genius shared with me. If my end goal is to make a DVD of my band performing, it doesn't make sense to record in a higher quality that I'm capable of reproducing on a DVD. Can I shoot 1080 or 720 (30 ore 60 fps)? My sound options are first PCM or AAC format, then PCM has a sample rate of 44.1, 48, or 96 kHz, and choice of 16 or 24 bit length. The AAC format has only one sample rate of 48 kHz but a bit rate choice ranging from 160, 192, 224, 256 or 320 kbps. Yikes. I'm not a sound engineer but I know this camera probably offers me a higher quality in both video and sound than the DVD can reproduce.
Of course, I have this same question with my Sony video camera. I can shoot AVCHD or MP4. iPhoto can't even import AVCHD so that question was answered for me but do I shoot MP4 12M 1440x1080 or do I shoot MP4 6M 12180x720? My end goal is always to burn a DVD. I don't understand what any of the above values mean in both paragraphs and don't necessarily need to know other than which to choose if making a DVD is my final goal. Thank you.
Richard

This is the forum for iOS (iPads and iPhones).
But I can answer your question; DVD scan only be SD.
Which in PAL land is 720 x 576 pixels (which can be stretched 16:9 anamorphic).
And is 720 x 480 in NTSC.
If you shoot in a higher quality then you will have a sharper image in the final DVD, but it will only be SD in the final encode.
iPhoto is a photo app, so no it can't import AVCHD; iMovie Mac can.
I will see if I can get this question moved to the correct forum so you get more answers.

Question Re video and Ipad +apple tv

I rented a SD video from Itunes videos this weekend. I downloaded to Ipad2 and wanted to project through apple TV as I have doen many many times. The sound came through, and the video showed the progress bar and icon of the movie but no visual, why is that???

Up until recently content on itms has been aimed at the ipod and encoded at around 1500 kbps which is below DVD quality IMHO and may well be what you have seen. I'm in the UK and cannot take a look at the new rental content but given the size of the files being reported by those that can, it seems rental quality is encoded at around 2500 kbps, but I could do with someone confirming this.
2500kbps IMHO will give you DVD quality, no-one actually knows how HD will be encoded but one has to assume it will be significantly above 2500 kbps, FWIW my guess would be between 3500 and 4300 kbps

I am importing a video and in iMovie the video is now white. the audio still plays and I can play the video properly outside of iMovie so any help is good?

I am importing a video and in iMovie the video is now white. the audio still plays and I can play the video properly outside of iMovie so any help is good?

I going to recommend again, downloading and installing some video helper applications.
1. http://perian.org/ (this will add a number of different file types to the ones QuickTime already plays)
2. http://www.divx.com/en/software/mac (will add more file types to what QuickTime can play)
Either one of these might be necessary to get MPEG Streamclip to export the video. Failing that the only other thing I have found is an obscurve discussion thread on Avid.com:
http://duc.avid.com/archive/index.php/t-277791.html
I've figured out what the problem is on my end. The video came from Avid on a Windows machine and was encoded with Squeeze. I found out that the 2 seconds of black at the top of the video were at a different frame rate than the rest of the video. I chopped off the 2 seconds of black and started at the first frame of video, exported it with Quicktime Pro and was able successfully view the video in ProTools. Apparently Squeeze will let you create a movie file that has different frame rates within the same movie... This fixed my issue that was exactly as you describe, hopefully it might work for you.
Lastly, you could try converting the video clip using HandBrake

Do i need to let the video finish encoding before i burn?

I want to burn a dvd in idvd. I know it begins to encode while you're still working on the dvd, but if i finsh editing the dvd and it hasnt been fully encoded in the project info tab, can i just burn it and encoding will hapen durig the burn or do i have to wait til encoding is done.

Hi
Burn - will cont. the encoding process - Can not burn until calculated.
BUT - There is another more recommended way to do this - as problems can occur
• Start in iDVD when Lay-out/Menus and all is done WITH - Save as a DiskImage
• Test this (when calculated) - with DVD-tool to see that all menus plays as intended and all Chapters starts where they are supposed to do etc.
• Then either
- Let iDVD burn (will do a re-calculation = takes much time) - or -
- Burn the .img by using - Disk Util tool - Will make a DVD-copy and need no re-calculating
BUT - both in iDVD and Disk Util tool - SET down Burn speed to x2 or x4 to get a much better DVD (less burn errors)
To get best possibly result (to me) I do
• use Verbatim DVDs - Cheap brands usually works for Data-DVD - BUT NOT AS Video-DVDs
• DVD-R - as they play on more and even older DVD-players (never DVD+/-RW)
Yours Bengt W

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