Jerky Pans - Premiere CS2

[Larry Chapman]

I've been a CS2 user pretty much since it came out and never had this issue before -
I have several short clips in a sequence with pans (not an effect, straight video). I started noticing that the preview display of those clips was jerky (like a sticky tripod head might cause). The original video is totally smooth. I blew it off thinking it would render fine. Wrong. Export to DVD or export to an AVI file retains the horrible movement.

After much investigation (and some luck) I determined that if I render right after a re-boot everything is fine.

Other system behavior that may or may not have anything to do with this are:

1) When I play a DV-AVI file with Windows Media Player I have to click in the play area to get the video to appear (the audio starts right away).

2) When I play an un-compressed AVI file with Windows Media Player I get a codec error and only the audio will play.

Thoughts?

[Andrew Reyna]

Larry,

Maybe your PC has been bogged down and you are lagging?

[Larry Chapman]

Originally Posted by Andrew Reyna

Larry,

Maybe your PC has been bogged down and you are lagging?

It's a dual 3.2Ghz machine with 2.5Gb of RAM. I watch the CPU and memory utilization, seems normal. Anyway, even with a "slow machine" a render might take a long time but I don't see how that would cause the resulting DVD to exhibit the results I'm seeing.