Hi,

First, I must ask the obvious......do you have tails on the outgoing and heads on the incoming clips?

Pete

Bumping this topic because I am having the same problem in CS6.  Was also having this in CS5.5 but didn't go away when I upgraded like I hoped.

System...

Matrox MX02 LE w/ Max

nVidia Quadtro 3800

Windows 7

24G Ram

All the latest drivers and updates.

Encoding using Matrox AVI with MPEG2 iFrame codec @ 25 MB/s.  Using the DV NTSC Standard 48k Sequence Preset.

As the OP mentioned, it appears as if cross dissolves are starting at 20% and finishing at 80% causing very harsh beginnings and ends of transitions.

I'm also having problems where opacities in the titler don't match the output.  For example a drop shadow might be set at 50% opacity, but is barely visible in the preview monitor.  Another example was a had a circle with a radial gradient, the outside edge being at 0% opacity.  In the titler the circle blended nicely, but playing it on the timeline I could clearly see the outer edge of the circle and it was unusable.

Anyone have a fix for this issue?

Hi Scott,

Do you have Premier updated to 6.0.1, and Matrox drivers current at 7.0.2? Nvidia driver current?

I don't know if this will have any effect on your issue, but please try this info from Matrox release notes -

To improve the brightness of live video windows (such as the live preview

window in Matrox A/V Tools) on a system that has an NVIDIA display card,

use your display card’s control panel to set the dynamic range for video to

full. In the NVIDIA Control Panel under Video, select Adjust video color

settings. In the displayed dialog box, select With the NVIDIA settings,

click the Advanced tab, and from the Dynamic range list, select Full

(0-255). Apply this setting to all the displays on which you preview video

using Matrox software. (Ref# 56660)

Thanks

Jeff Pulera

Safe Harbor Computers

Jim Simon wrote:

 

MPE hardware should work as it was designed for.

 

It is working as designed

Technically you're probably right, but I agree with Ann.  It shouldn't break fundamental functions.  I know that sometimes there's some give an take, but we're talking the default transition here.

I tried your Film Fade presets.  They definately help to minimize the abduptness and I can see why this isn't an issue for you if that's what you use.  The reason it works is all in the white/black levels, and it's a decent and stylish work-around.  It's opacity that is the problem.

One key thing to point out is that the abrupt cross dissolves don't happen when it's just a single layer over nothing.  It's when you add a 2nd layer, even if it's over a Black Video clip, it becomes abrupt.

Whenever I want to still be able to edit using GPU accleration but want certain things to be smoother or appear with the correct levels of opacity I turn off GPU acceleration before exporting my project. I realize this will slow down export times quite a bit, but it will make your titles appear correctly. Plus you still get to edit without having to render to get instant previews.

Understandable, basically I was just offering the workaround that I use. Although I generally only worry about the opacity issue which when you switch modes is fixes the opacity issue 100 percent in my personal experience, since I don't use Premiere's built in cross dissolve much I haven't been bugged by that part personally.

I do realize though that it stinks that it can't seem to just work as expceted to begin with.

Jim Simon wrote:

 

The black exacerbates the issue.

Exactly! Which is why I did it for testing purposes only.  Opacity over nothing, and opacity over a Black video clip should look idendical but it doesn't.  That Black Video clip could be anything else, and it looks bad.

Jim Simon wrote:

 

Well its not working properly

 

In what way?  Do you mean it's not working the way Adobe designed it to work, or the way you want it to work?  The former we can maybe fix, the latter needs a feature request and a whole lot of patience.

I would guess she means it's not working the way it always has in the past.  When you drag the default Cross Dissolve to the timeline, you expect it to work right and it doesn't.  When you have a drop shadow on a title, you expect it to look the same on the timeline as the way you designed it in the titler, and it doesn't.  It's blatenly obvious to me that this isn't intended by design, but a side affect of the MPE that needs to be fixed.

I think the reason I didn't see more posts about this is I wasn't looking back far enough.  Here's a thread I found about this same issue from over a year and a half ago, and I guess the topic has already been discussed at length and everyone has lost hope?  I'm new to this era of MPE+GPU, just recently upgrading from CS1.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/773441

And Hey Jim, you are a participant in that thread saying things like "Hardware MPE messes up my titles to the point where I have simply turned it off.  Wasted $200 on a compatible card."  I see you experienced my same frustrations back then, but have learned to live with it and are now defending it.  I'm sure I'll learn to live with it too (doesn't look like I have much choice).  Do you still turn off Hardware MPE for titles?