Importing/exporting question
owiseone61755 Jul 28, 2012 10:32 AMI'll start by saying I'm new to video editing and adobe premiere pro. Forgive me if what I ask has been asked repeatedly before but I can't find an answer to my question through keyword searchs of google and these forums.
That said I have a canon vixia HF M31 HD camcorder. I thought it was 1080p but investigating on the web it seems like my frame rate settings are 60i and 30p but 30p is really 30i?? I'm a little confused about this. I've been recording in what the camcorder tells me is 60i at 24Mbps but when I put the files on my windows 7 PC the file description and adobe tell me the video is 29.97 fps.
I'm using adobe premiere pro CS6.0.1 and adobe media encoder CS6 6.01.31(64 bit) in a windows 7 environment. 8 gig of DDR3 ram, 3.18 ghz intel dual core processor overclocked to 3.50 ghz and an nvidia 570 gtx video card.
So when I set up a new project I originally thought my video was 1080p at 60i so thats the preset I used in adobe. So my first question is, why is my camcorder saying 60i and my pc telling me its 30(not sure how to tell p or i from file description) and two if my sequence settings are in fact wrong because its really 1080i 30i do I need to start the project over? I've done all my edits already. Is it simply a matter of copy and pasting the edits/music into a new sequence with the appropriate settings?
My last question is regarding what appears to be frame rate lag or slightly jerky picture during pans/zoom outs of wide shots. Most of the video of close up and medium shots plays smooth after I encode it but theres a few wide shots where I pull out showing off the entire landscape of a garden I was shooting and it gets a little jerky. Its slight but definitely noticeable. However when I watch the original .mts files of the same shots in VLC they playback smooth. So something is happening in the adobe process that is making them jerky. Can anyone help me out with how to smooth those shots out??
Thank you guys so much for your help. Having a blast with this new hobby but as you know, so much material to learn!



