jasek78! Monitor problems - audio plays, screen is black. Help?

[lange74]

Clips play fine in Clip viewers but nothing but audio and a black screen in the Monitor window. Can't work on timeline without. Size is 352 x 240 which is different than project settings. Is this the problem and if so, how do I change them. Saving and creating a preview doesn't help.

 

[jasek78]

I need more information to know what's going on.

What format is your clip (.mov/.avi/.mpg), and what codec (if any) is the clip. Also your project settings, size, format, codec, etc...

jason

 

[lange74]

Thanks for the reply, Jason. Here's what my settings look like:

VIDEO
Capture Settings Project Settings Clip .mpg Export

DV/IEEE Microsoft DV n/a Microsoft DV
1394 AVI AVI
Microsoft DV Microsoft DV n/a Microsoft DV
(NTSC) (NTSC) (NTSC)
720 x 480 720 x 480 352 x 240 720 x 480
29.97 29.97 29.97 29.97
millions millions millions
100% 100% 100% 100%
D1/DV NTSC(0.9) Square (1.0) Square (1.0) Square (1.0)

Audio
48000 Hz 48000 Hz 44100 Hz 48000 Hz

RENDER
Lower Field Lower Field unknown Lower Field first first first

The .mpg was captured using DAZZLE Digital Video Creator and should just be a standard file. I double-checked the playback settings and they are set to show on Desktop. The other item of note: the preview files that came with Premiere can be edited and play fine in the Monitor window.

 

[jasek78]

Try capturing the video as an AVI (preferably uncompressed) clip. It may not be that the MPG is what is doing it, but I have not had very good experiences with Premiere 5.x and MPEG compressions. The format may be your problem. If you need it in MPEG, then bring it into Premiere after you capture it and re-export it.

Most of the problem lies in the MPEG compression. The only way to edit an MPEG is to uncompress it to avi or mov format, then recompress to MPEG.

jason