need help quick

matt1808 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 1981

When I am capturing video from my video camera with Premier Elements it has all these little different color rectagles over the video. I need to know what causes this. Also is there any way to get rid of them.

Please help quick this is for a school project.

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

hmm i hope that im not right, but im thinking that its your tape or camera heads that is bad, not the program. this means either your footage is jacked, or you need to find another camera to capture the footage from.

RD · Addict Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 626 City: Discovery Bay

Scott's right, you could have a head clog, bad tape or a number of other problems but it is a playback based problem with the tape or camera. Have you run a head cleaner tape on it lately?

matt1808 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 1981

it looks fine on the camera it just gets the rectangles all over it in premiere

RD · Addict Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 626 City: Discovery Bay

Do you have the dropped frame warning on while you're capturing? It's unusal to have that happen during playback if you've got a clean video stream captured on disk. Normally what will happen is the video on your screen will freeze or stutter if your system doesn't have enough throughput but in my experience those pixelated frames are a sign of tape drop-outs or dropped frames. Other things to try: turn off all background apps while playing back and defragment your harddrive, check the video card settings and make sure it's not set to a weird size or over 100% as this could stress the processor enough to cause poor playback. Another thing I've found that can fix poor playback is doing a render on the video. Final Cut Pro has an analysis tool that checks the file for bad frames etc I'm sure Premiere does too - try running that on the file.

matt1808 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 1981

no warnings. Also it goes on to the computer without stuttering, it just has the little rectangles all over.

When I do it I close out of everything else. This is the first time it has happened so I am hoping it is just a bad tape.

RD · Addict Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 626 City: Discovery Bay

Sounds like a head clog, I'd try a cleaning tape on it too.

numbfoot · Posted: Mar 28, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject:

matt1808, definately try a head cleaning tape. Same thing happened w/ mine and works good. I'm no expert on any of this and there's prob a kajillion things that could b wrong but a cleaning tape is worth a shot.