Slugs / clips playing at wrong / high speed
I've been having an issue with PPCS5 for a while now. Video imported from my iTouch (720p) and Flip Cam (720p) videos play too fast (appears to be double-speed) when previewing video clips (slugs). However, when I drop the video into the timeline it plays the proper speed. It makes it very difficult to place the in and out points on the slug. I've tried reinstalling PP CS5 but to no avail. I'm working on a Mac Pro tower with dual quad-core Intel Xenon processors. I tried the same video clips on a different computer and it worked fine (27 inch iMac with i7 processor) so I'm thinking there's some sort of corrupted preference file. Any clues??
I believe I have solved this problem. I tried using a problem clip on a different computer and it played properly. So I started looking comparing preferences between my machine and that computer. The ONLY difference was the audio in/out preference. My machine uses a Creative SBX surround-sound card. There are two preference options for using that card (don't know what the difference is). I switched it to the second preference and now video clips in the bin appear to be playing fine. This only seemed to effect .MP4 files, and files from the iTouch/Phone, or from a Flip cam. Don't know why, might be some way the audio compression was handled.
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How to play 100fps at normal speed?
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Karsten wrote:
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General
ID : 0 (0x0)
Complete name : /Volumes/Ring til Ramasjang - klippedisk/RaÌoptagelser/Optagelser_121214_nære/private/AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM/000 38.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
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Duration : 46s 265ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
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Maximum Overall bit rate : 24.0 Mbps
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Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
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Format settings, CABAC : Yes
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Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 21.1 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 22.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.406
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ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
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Codec ID : 129
Duration : 46s 304ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.41 MiB (1%)
Text
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
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MCS Index: 15
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-------------------------------------------------------------------- Keep in mind, my findings show a 100% faster network in Ad hoc mode on a 2.4 Ghz connection
This is quite unsatisfying as I have bought the airport express on Feb 9th 2010 and it was the latest available model according to local genius bar.
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