Fussy output and video automatically goes to pause

[visiondan]

I am having some fussy footage on output on PE4.0 and problems with the internet video automatically pausing.

First, I took all of this video on a Sony HDRHC9, which is a pretty good pro-consumer quality video camera and shot indoors with background and full lighting, then had that footage made into a 30 second commercial for my YouTube series on Real Estate, which was done at a professional studio with Apples Final Cut on a Mac and saved for PC in DV-AVI in 720, and opened them in Windows Movie maker and resaved them again as Dv AVI and that now works in PE4.0.

At the same time I shot footage under the same condition for the rest of the 8 segments of the series (the commercial was from this footage) so it is the same quality. The 30 second commercial done I final cu is not fussy.

Yet, when I took this first part which is a 30 second commercial of my series on real estate, and added it to the 3 minute segment I made in PE40, and saved the entire 3.5 mint video as a Window Player file in 320x240 30 FPS and mono audio the video footage of me is fussy both when played back on my PC (windows XP) and when played back in Windows Media Player online at my website: http://cogent-plan.com/html/video_footage.html (http://cogent-plan.com/html/video_footage.html)

I am having 2 problems:
1) It is pausing automatically for me when accessed on the internet at my website, so I wonder if this is being cased by the audio, as I increased in PE40 to a level 5 decibels?

2) The video of me, where I am talking, is very fussy, yet the background and titles are not. Which is weird because in the first 30 second commercial, I used the same Sony HDRHC9 and it’s not fussy in those shots. I did scale myself as larger in some of the scenes by 185% and in others 125%, yet on most scenes they were 100% and they are still fussy. I did use a chroma key for the virtual set with “high smoothing” and used “auto color, auto contracts, and auto levels”. I have now undone the high smoothing and turned off these control, yet the fussiness still remains when output in this 320x240 size, Can anyone suggest what to do about the fussiness?

THX
Dan

[ATR]

At some point between this thread and your other, I asked for a better description of your starting material. I think that I got my answer when you mentioned that you recorded using a Sony HDR HC9. I did some checking into your camera and apparently that camera records:

1. HDV format which is a version of MPEG-2 (1440 x 1080) and is
anamorphically stretched to 1920 x 1080.
or
2. Standard definition video in DV format

So, I am not sure where your "720" is coming from. Are you referring to 720 x 480 standard widescreen with 16:9 aspect ratio or 720p with its 720 x 1280 pixels 16:9 aspect ratio? What are the specifications of the "DV AVI" supplied to you by the people who processed your footage professionally?

All that being said. From what you wrote, it sounded like you were probably sending out your HDV footage to be processed professionally. HDV editing can be difficult. What I do not understand is, if they converted MPEG-2 into DV AVI for you, why the DV AVI would need to be converted to DV AVI again. But, you said that worked for you to get the footage into Premiere Elements 4. The answer may reside in those details.

The following are a few suggestions that you might want to consider for diagnostic purposes:
1. Up the resolution of your wmv and see if the fuzziness disappears
2. Check out your internet speed and other factors (antivirus, etc) affecting download to your computer to see if that impacts the pause viewing from your web site.
3. If you ever record in Standard DV format, remember to use a Firewire for capture, using Premiere Elements.
4. Be aware of what you are using for project preset when you open Premiere Elements.

I do not know if any of my comments are hitting the core of the issue. I am not an expert on uploading to web sites and HDV. We can continue to discuss this if you think that we are going in the right direction. If not, this is my suggestion:

Place your question at the Premiere Elements User to User Forum at Adobe http://www.adobe.com. Of all the alternatives, I believe that the people there that have the best hands on experience with uploading to web sites and dealing with the processing of HDV and unexpected consequences. There is no charge to place your question, but you do have to register (you will not be bothered with unwanted e-mails).

Whatever you decide, please let us know the outcome. I will be watching for your progress.

ATR