Premiere Pro CS4 is messing up colours. Any ideas?

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I'm trying to cut together a video on PPro CS4. I've got some desktop captures that I need to edit together.

The videos were recorded in VMware workstation and come in two different types: A linux machine and a Windows machine. The linux videos are all 720x400 and work fine. The Windows videos are 1115x737 and are causing lots of grief.

My workflow would normally be to take the VMnc encoded videos, convert them to Largs in virtualdub and then import them into PPro. However, for some reason, virtualdub won't read the Windows videos, despite them playing perfectly in VLC.

The next plan was to use CamStudio to capture the VLC output. This gives me a Largs file that virtualdub can now read. However, when I drop it into PPro, it's read perfectly in the file viewer, but the main monitor seems to create another version of the video with messed up colours which then overlays on the original. Difficult to describe, screenshot is below.

Thinking that this was a size issue, I successfully used virtualdub to resize the video to 640x480 and I still get the same issue. It also occurrs if I use Huffyuv instead of Largs. The fact that it's occurring across multiple codecs and video sizes makes me think it's a setting somewhere in PPro that I'm missing...

Any idea how I can make PPro CS4 play nice with these?

Thanks :)

 
Have not got a clue what you are talking about ..... but, if by Cam Studio pro you mean the freeware app which allows you to record screenflow, then you can use different 'codecs' with it. It may be you are using the standard one - there is I believe an additional codec it comes with which is a seperate download. I made some videos recently with it and they gave me grief when I used one of the codecs. Apologies, if I am barking up the wrong tree. I just thought I'd cut in just in case it is the same thing. :)
 
Have not got a clue what you are talking about ..... but, if by Cam Studio pro you mean the freeware app which allows you to record screenflow, then you can use different 'codecs' with it. It may be you are using the standard one - there is I believe an additional codec it comes with which is a seperate download. I made some videos recently with it and they gave me grief when I used one of the codecs. Apologies, if I am barking up the wrong tree. I just thought I'd cut in just in case it is the same thing. :)

Yes, I saw that - I work in Lagarith mainly, and that's an option.
 
VLC has all its video codecs built in, hence why the windows video plays fine in that. VIrtual Dub needs codecs installed on the system to be able to read/save videos (it cannot use the codecs built into VLC)

Get something like ffdshow with the haali media splitter installed if possible and that should sort you for any codec you need :)
 
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