Premiere CS4 Renders incorrectly

I am having issues with rendering is Premiere CS4. Everytime I import files (png, gif, swf) and try to render them they are distorted. I pay close attention to match the original file settings in my presets and have used the interpret footage option and that doesn't either. I am using a custom setting with a square pixel ratio and 24 fps. Any ideas?

JSS1138 wrote:
I guess the point I was trying to make is that you don't edit swf files. You create them when you're done editing standard camera media.
I agree. Is there a reason for using swfs? Are you creating some animation effects in Flash or are you using swf sources that you didn't create yourself?
Do the images look distorted in Premiere or is it just when you export? If it's just when you export it sounds like the export has different aspect ratio settings than your project. Check to make sure all of your export settings match your project (Especially Frame size and Pixel aspect ratio).
I usually try to use 32-bit targa files for still images or a Photoshop .psd file since both can retain the alpha information. JPEGs work well also, but can't hold alpha info. Can you bring some of your images into Photoshop, convert them and see if that helps?

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recently premier started rendering very slow after making a change to an effect or adding something, etc..
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Time of this report: 5/24/2010, 12:19:54
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       Manufacturer: NVIDIA
          Chip type: Quadro FX 1800
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One hard drive means one set of read/write heads... which can not be in two places at the same time
When parts of the program or swap file are being read from or written to... the data files suffer
A link with many ideas about computer setup http://forums.adobe.com/thread/436215?tstart=0
And even more hardware discussion http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forum
Including this post about 3 possible builds http://forums.adobe.com/thread/598040?tstart=0
You really need a 2nd hard drive for video files... I haven't looked in a long time, but I think the official system requirements on Adobe's page even says something about a DEDICATED 7200rpm drive for files

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Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but I can not seem to find this precise issue among the slow rendering discussions.
Bruce B

I hope you've found the answer already, but it sound exactly what I've run into.
My problem was that I upgraded from CS2 and then removed the suite once CS4 was running.
If you have done the same thing, simply reinstall Premiere CS4 and it will work as it did for me.
If not, I don't know what to tell you.
Good luck,
Dan

Issues rendering Premiere CS4 movie with Media Encoder

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>Any ideas what I am doing wrong
Second thing wrong is posting in this forum. People in the Premiere forum will do a better job of offering help This forum is dedicated to helping people with suite-wide issues such as installation.

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I had a DV 24P project go into what I call "rendering freeze" - it opens up the render box, but then does nothing. It will simply sit there for hours if I let it, but I can escape out of it at any time. The project was a CS3 import that is 95% done, and my deadline isn't until March, so I set it aside for more pressing work. I'm on Vista Ultimate and CS4 has been rock solid for me on multiple projects, from scratch and CS3 imports.
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I hope you've found the answer already, but it sound exactly what I've run into.
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If you have done the same thing, simply reinstall Premiere CS4 and it will work as it did for me.
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Can you help me with this Premiere CS4 error? (picture included)

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I have Adobe Premiere CS4 and when I recently updated to 4.2.1 many of my videos now do not have playback in the source or edit windows. Some are black screens, and some are turquiose during playback. If I click on the edit window to select the video frame and move it within the edit window (say to the left side) it will play back with a turquoise overlay and show the video behind it enlarged. This ONLY happened when I did the update. I am running Windows 7 64bit. When it was at 4.0.0 everything ran just fine. The video I have been working on is a 1080p .MOV file. Has anyone else seen this? There is a picture of the problem below.
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A couple of XP-Pro hot-fixes messed up my nVidia Quadro in PS. A simple driver update fixed those. I had gone more than 6 mos. with not one problem, and then installed the hot-fixes and BOOM!
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Premiere Cs4 handle CPU...performance...and idiot questions

Ok, i tried to read as much as i could, performance threads about Premiere Cs4...but couldn't help it.
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exporting speed has to do with footage, type of media that is being exporting and GPU??????
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3)Premiere CS4 cannot handle multicore anyway...and every user here has the same problems??????
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Roger thank you very much!
It is now starting to make sense. I have only run it once and not tried any other tricks yet (like trying to use the Source from the RAID array rather than from the C: drive)
Now rather than taking 130 seconds for encoding it is down to 25 seconds versus 8 seconds for CS3. I suspect that at least some of that is because they are using the C: drive for the source.
MPEG encoding has also a major improvement by using the rendered preview files and as matter of fact it reduced the MPEG encoding time from 75 seconds (CS3) to 57 seconds (CS4)! Maybe we will have to go back to suggesting rendering the timeline before any encoding.
One other plus for CS4 is that the rendering is much smarter in that any duplicate segments are rendered only one time.
Why do they hide these menus with such tiny hard to find icons? I had a similar problem finding a playback option for my second monitor.

Premiere CS4 - Encoding with AME ridiculously slow

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After having read many threads on various forums, I have not come to a single hint as to why AME is encoding any type of video materal extremely slow. I'm sorry if this question has been asked many times on this forum, but maybe someone has come up with a working solution?
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I have already run that test about 4 hours prior to writing this thread. Now I'm not at this computer, but from top of my head the results were:
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