Poor play back quality

Anybody have trouble with a classic 120 gb having a skipping static sound randomly during play back? A HD going bad?

Here are some things to try and a few questions...
1) Does the iPod do this with another set of headphones?
a) If yes then try playing music through a docking station. If it still does it, then your iPod is probably heading south.
b) If no then your headphones are shot.
If you don't get static through the docking station, then you 3.5 mm connector is either dirty or failing. To clean it use a damp q-tip. I don't know if alcohol or the like would be a good idea.
Hope your Classic keeps rockin'
Dr. Dodd

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Hi all,
I really, really hope someone can help me here.
I have a brand new Samsung Note 3. The problem I'm having is the play-back quality when I transfer videos I've recorded from the phone on to my macbook pro.
The video just lags but the audio is fine. Infuriating.
Initially, the video play-back on the phone was an issue but I have sorted that out. I tried transfering the videos back on to the phone and the play back is fine. It's just via the macbook it isn't so.
I have tried playing the videos via Quicktime and VLC media player - both the same.
Help! (please)

I've had good luck using Handbrake > http://download.cnet.com/HandBrake/3000-2194_4-10808250.html

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When I burn a dvd it plays back with no problems on my mac but on my set top dvd it seems to jitter and shimmer.
suggestions appreciated.
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Trevor

The following threads disccusss how to maximize DVD compability, how to get good quallity and "jitters". Not quite sure which one applies, if you could describe the issue better perhaps?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=480177&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2203050&#2203050
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Dvd play back on Tv is 4:3 , also poor playback quality

I recently purchased a jvc everio HDD, Along with that I purchased elements 7. I am having many issues with the software. I am new to editing but have researched all the posts and done alot of home work. I have read the all the post about mod files. But I am more confused
Issue one... When I burn a dvd and play it back on any dvd player the video is compressed back to a 4:3 aspect. I have noticed that the video is squeezed and everything appears to be skinny when viewing.
To clarify , My camera films in 16:9 ratio. When I set up My new project I choose . Hard disk/widescreen (this setting say it is for video files produced by jvc everio). When Ii am done I choose burn/dolby widescreen.
when I import my video clips to my pc, it saves them as mov.files. which I understand is a quicktime format... is this causeing the issue.
I was convinced it was a camera issue. So I burnt some clips using my pc burner program and played them on my tv and they were in 16:9 and played just fine and the video looked amazing..
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Issue two.... When I bring my video's in I loose alot of quality. Also my clips hae glitches in them , some are green clitches and others are neg art of other clips . I played back on my media player ,these glitches are not there.
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Issue three..... When I import my clips , the PRE viewer is very pixelly ( like really bad webcam bad) it is so bad that I actually took the sony camcorder back, thinking that the issue was my camera. I then exchanged for the jvc..... I have watched many utube tutorials on youtube... and have been able to see that the players are not as pixelly as mine....
Help....... I am so frustrated with purchaseing software and having problems.

With MOD files are imported into Premiere Elements they are not properly interpreted as 16:9... they will appear as 4:3 on the timeline and if burnt to DVD will play back as 4:3. You need to right click on the clips in the project Media Panel and select Interpret footage and then Conform To and select the 16:9 widescreen preset.
Not sure why it is saying the videos are .mov files, did you do ant conversion before importing. Regarding the glitchy distorted frames, try renaming the file in the Program Files folder for Premier Elements "ImporterFastMPEG.prm" to something else. PE7 will not use it then and this should eliminate you bad frame problems.
The Premiere Elements viewer does not show the final quality of the video but should not be that bad. Did you render the timeline by pressing the Enter button on your keyboard... this needs to be done for non DV-AVI format video or when you place effects/transitions/title on the clips. The clips will playback without rendering but playback will be much smoother and cleaning after rendering.
Most of these issues can be overcome be converting your video to DV-AVI before importing to Premiere Elements. The "box" says PE7 plays with many file types but it struggles with many and MOD files is one format that it does struggle with. DV-AVI is handled natively and gives no problems. Can you import the clips into the software that came with the camcorder and export to DV-AVI? Otherwise you could use MPEG_Streamclip to convert them. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/415317?tstart=0
Also a lot of these issues are discussed in this thread. Dont know if you saw this one. http://forums.adobe.com/message/1757486#1757486

Final cut pro 4.5 playing back poorly

I've been using Final Cut Pro 4.5 for a year or two now, and suddenly it's been dropping frames like crazy on playback. I just upgraded to OS X 10.4.6, and Quicktime 7.1, and after that, Final Cut Pro hasn't been working right. I use iMovie to import all my footage (just from a regular DV cam) and that works fine and everything plays back fine in Quicktime and in iMovie and in the Finder. However, when I'm looking at my project in Final Cut Pro, it already starts dropping frames and freezing up when my clips are still in the browser and I'm just looking at them in the viewer. They kind of freeze, and the audio keeps going, and then the video comes back a few seconds later, and freezes... Every once in a while I get an error message that says "General Error." I've closed all other applications, disconnected the internet, and Final Cut is still not even playing back my files correctly. Looking at other posts, I made sure no windows were overlapping, I set the zoom to "Fit to Window", I threw out the FCP preferences, everything I could think of. My computer is only an 800 Mhz Powerbook G4, but I have 1 Gig of RAM. The video files are all on an external Firewire hard drive, and both my internal and external drives have a good amount of free space. My laptop is also plugged in with the energy set to Best Performance. And until upgrading my OS, I hadn't had any problems like this. Has anyone else experienced this? Is Upgrading to FCP 5 the only solution (or will that not work either?) please help. Thanks.

I think your problem stems partly because of OS and QT combination you are running. I'm a firm believer in running FCP HD in 10.3 and QT 6 because it was written for that OS and QT combo... I've an article about all of this in the Creative COW magazine.http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newpage_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=http://www.creativecow.net/magazine/cowmagsubscribe.html will get you a pdf by registering.
Capturing in iMovie isn't the best either. If you capture with FCP, the DV codec used is optimized for FCP, and you'll find a much happier result.
When you go to an new OS, don't 'upgrade' rather, reinstall it from the ground up... starting with a nice empty disk drive. FCP HD will run the best in 10.3.9 if you don't have a capture card, and in 10.3.8 if you do.
Jerry

Poor iTunes video quality

Hi,
I just purchased an episode of Lost through iTunes because I missed the original airing on TV. When I try to play back the video on my iMac, the quality is garbage. The video is jerky, stops, and when it does run, it runs at about 10 frames per second.
It does this while in full screen mode, and also when running in windowed-mode.
There are no other applications running in the background, not even Dashboard is loaded up. I've tried repairing permissions and re-starting the computer. iTunes videos play back fine on my Mac Mini, but for the purpose of this Lost video, it needs to play back on the iMac.
I downloaded the 7.0.2 iTunes update (it was on 7.0.1), hoping it would eliminate this issue, but if anything it's worse since the update.
Any suggestions to make the video play back smooth? This computer has plenty of free hard drive space, and a gig of RAM. It's annoying that this computer cost what it did new, and now four years later can't play back a Quicktime video that I paid $1.99 for.
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A
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Macmenno,
Thanks for the reply.
To be honest I didn't really look at the requirements for iTunes, I just assumed it would work haha. Thanks for pointing that out. I wouldn't think 200 MHz difference would cause it to run this poorly, but oh well.
A

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I have an iPOD nano with version 1.0 software.
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I only have a 20 GB with Color Display, which sounds fine. I use the Apple Lossless encoder BTW.
I've never had any problem with any CD (even those who jump so badly in the player that you can hear about 5% of the songs) when ripping with iTunes (although once it refused to rip a track on my worst CD).
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Audio tracks play back wrong audio

at some point in my mix sessions , in different sessions , one of my audio tracks starts playing back audio from both its channel and another channel simultaineously. there not always adjacent tracks , not assigned to the same voice and have seemingly nothing in common. if i change voices i can sometimes allieviate the problem or it will start playing a different track audio simultaineously. i have two records pending and need some immediate help please...

D,
Just to warn you (or throw some experience in). Logic 7 has for me, operated poorly with sessions created from older versions of Logic. It is often fine if you just want to duck in and grab something but the sessions do go weird if you just keep using them they go batty and can often get kind of self destructive.
Updating/merging/replacing the environment is one of the first steps to take, just creating new updated objects helps, even using presets and channel strips from older versions seem to give problems. Copying objects and configurations over can give you different results, but basically the more you replace and create as new the less problems you'll have.
So you know you have alot of reworking to do if you really want to do alot of work with these in the current version. Determine where a good transition point would be and try to follow with that. Often mixing or sooner than later but plan on taking some time reworking things. It's almost easiest to just grab everything and paste it over into a 7 built autoload-without the plugins. Audio Objects and plugin instances seem to give alot of problems. I usually end up redoing a bunch of stuff if I have a ways to go and export away. Things really get fixed along the way but it is a pain and better to do it sooner. Unless you're coming up on a mixing stage or something soon I'd just do it (and keep a backup of the older versions just in case I want to retrieve something.
I am working on an album that was created on a 6 autoload and 12 of 13 tracks had to be reformatted in 7 from forward INcompatabilities-some of them twice because they did not get a 100% clean autoload (as in the instruments and/or audio objects were opied over). Maybe I'm just weird, don't take only my word on this because it is alot of work for many projects to just redo things like this but you should be aware of what some people have encountered and be prepared to take some of those steps if there are more people saying their experience has been like this.
Best of Luck

When watching my Apple TV (3rd gen) the picture jumps a few frame every few seconds, this happens when I rent a film or play back from my new Mac Pro, my Wifi is the Airport Express.

When watching my Apple TV (3rd gen) the picture jumps a few frames every few seconds, this happens when I rent a film or play back from my new Mac Pro, my Wifi is the Airport Express.

These may be different issues, but lets look at rentals first.
Poor motion can result from mismatched output. If your source is 24 or 30 fps you should set the output of the Apple TV to 60 Hz, for 25 fps content use 50 Hz.
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I have an HD project in Premiere Pro CS4 that is about 9 minutes. When I render out to Flash for the web, once it's all buffered it plays back real smooth. So the client wants a copy of the "file" to be played on his computer running Windows and Windows Media Player which he will attach to a large 55" flatscreen via HDMI at a trade show. I rendered out several different files ranging from .MOV to H.264 in various resolutions (1920x1080, 1280x720p, 720x480 wide, iPod, etc.) and tested them on my Dell Inspiron i3 laptop running Windows 7 Home 64 bit connected to my 46" tv via HDMI to simulate what the client would have.
The 1920 file was huge (2GB) as one would expect and plays back jerky
The 1280x720p .MP4 file was about 400mb which I was excited about, but plays back jerky
The other two (.MOV and .MP4) at 720x480 play back smoothly
So I'm guessing that it's either a disk / processor issue with playing back the larger files or combo of that and the graphics card or am I having an issue with the way the settings are set in the export options?
The box I'm producing the video on is a Mac i7 quad-core, 8GB RAM and a nice ATI card. The full rez versions of the files play fine on it. BluRay is out too. Don't have a burner and they don't have a player.
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And the answer is.... converting the footage to WMV. Tada. I exported a nice huge HD 1920x1080 H.264 file and then used iSkysoft Video Converter to convert it to WMV. Now the only thing is that iSkysoft Coverter only allows 1280x720 as it's largest resolution for WMVs, but even so, the quality on a 46" LCD TV coming from a laptop via HDMI looks pretty sharp. The video was running very smooth (and it was running off a USB key <g>) to boot.
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The file size of the converted WMV: 437.5MB
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Captured clips are playing back at least TWICE as fast

Hey all- I am capturing HD footage from a JVC Pro HD camera - footage shot at 24P. Everything seems fine with the capture (except for the fact that there is no device control - only capture now), but when I play back the captured clips I hear the audio playing at normal speed but the video is playing back at leat at twice the speed - all actors are in FAST motion. I hear the crew and director speaking, getting ready to shoot as I watch the scene start and speed through and end right as the clip ends.
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Tom-
Thanks for getting back to me last night. You seem to be a master in these parts. I am new here. I am really a director and writer but through my production company I have done a number of things in FCP over the years, always without any problems. That is until the introduction of HD and 24p at which time I sort of started saying to our amazing editor "whatver you say" and clouding over with confusion. After I got your message I went and got FCP 5 from the Apple store in an attempt to keep my friend, whose short we were trying to edit, from crying. Once installed and running we had the same issue as we had in FCE HD - the video - in terms of quality - was captured perfectly, but the clips would play back at almost twice the speed that they should have. I tried virtually every easy set-up that pertained to HD and nothing worked. On a few of them I could get an actual Log and Capture window to come up but when I went to play the material via device control there was no image, althoug I could see TC running. A friend suggested that you have to take the captured HD 24p clip and bring it into the timeline and render it for it to work. Is that true? I tried it to no avail. So, he shot on JVC GY-HD 100 at 24p. I now have FCP 5 HD and am considering buying LUMIERE software that purports to streamline this very issue. Any thoughts or suggestions you may have for me would be greatly appreciated.
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As above really, only noticed this since the latest software change but my be coincidental.
I have recently had picture breakup when playing back reordings on BBC1HD and Ch4HD, when I watch the channels live there is no evidence of the breakup and if I check the signal strength on both channels I am getting Signal strength of 78% and quality of 100%
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I think that is what he is saying Alex...
If you think about what I tested, the model seems pretty right... Delete the room, it does not delete the file from webdav... So, when the room is re-created, it will play back original content so looks like they are not storing room historical data, i.e. is there a recording, how long etc....
I think it is an great solution to be able to remove completed rooms and FMS pick the old room up from webdav on the fly. Seems the most logical option.
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Maybe integrating some sort of API where when setting up the recording, we provide specifics (i.e. an authentication token), to allow the file to be placed there? Or maybe a slightly different approach would be to provide a cloud front url for picking up the files and the transfer could go on behind the scenes.... Also with the cloud front, distribution would be much quicker as the files could end up closer to the location of the FMS which in turn would create a richer experience with less waiting...
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Two things to try:
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I know someone was recently looking for the 5.1.4 upgrade and Apple has taken it down from their site...all other searches were fruitless.
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