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Cut-and-close-gap video distortion? Prem elem 9

Aug 22, 2012 2:19 PM

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Hi, I have Adobe Photoshop Premiere Elements 9.

I am creating some tutorial videos on math and other topics. I want the tutorials to be succinct, which requires me to edit out a lot of blank space.

Things look fine when I first load the file, but after cutting the video and audio up and delete-and-close-gap'ing a lot of it, the video at the end is very visually distorted. I can't even tell what's going on and it looks horrible.

Any suggestions or tips/forwards to threads that answer this question?

sorry if this is a repost, i'm very pressed for time

354 Views 3 Replies Latest reply: Bill Hunt, Aug 28, 2012 2:57 PM

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1. Steve Grisetti,

Aug 22, 2012 5:40 PM in reply to Gramiscus

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You don't say what software you're using to record your tutorials, but most use codecs that Premiere Elements struggles with.

You might be better off editing these non-camcorder files in a program like Windows MovieMaker or iMovie. These programs are not as powerful as Premiere Elements, but they do support a much wider range of file formats and codecs.

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2. Gramiscus,

Aug 28, 2012 12:53 PM in reply to Steve Grisetti

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I was using CamStudio with the Lossless codec it comes with, so that makes sense what you said. I would like to have some of the options that premiere has. Is there any work around that I can do to change the codec to be usable by Premiere?

such as, playing the video in windows media player and recording it with a codec that works, or ..?

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3. Bill Hunt,

Aug 28, 2012 2:57 PM in reply to Gramiscus

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You might want to take a look at this article on editing Camtasia footage: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/453044?tstart=0

There are some useful comments by Jeff Bellune, who uses Camtasia for his tutorials. Now, many of his comments were done with Premiere Pro CS3 & CS4 in mind, but much will translate to PrE, as well - just not all of it.

Good luck,

Hunt

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