Bugs of the Week - 11-16-12

Another installment of our (semi-) weekly list of important, interesting or unusual bugs in popular NLEs.

Premiere

Many people reporting problems with NVIDIA driver 306.97 for the GTX285 on Windows

Corrupt JPEG headers can cause Premiere to reference the wrong file

The Encore process doesn't stop when quitting Encore on Windows

Premiere crashes when you reanalyze a clip with the Warp Stabilizer effect switched off

To export H.264 video in higher than 1080p resolutions, you must be using H.264 Level 5.0 or 5.1

Premiere crashes if dynamically-linked applications are not closed before it exits

Workflow notes from an FCP switcher, including several bugs and workarounds

Avid

Media Composer 6.0.3.2 released

Several complaints about waveform drawing times

New Blackmagic 9.6.8 driver improves Media Composer 6.0.3.2 trimming performance

Media Composer doesn't remember settings when outputting more than 8 audio channels

Symphony appears to use 12-bit data for color correction when a ProRes 4444 file is fast imported

AMA can sometimes misinterpret and clamp luma levels from some QuickTime sources

Issue with Avid only keeping a few copies of a bin in the Attic (Pro Versioner can help with this):

FCPX

10.0.6 stability discussion

Many threads about 10.0.6 users being unable to Share or it being very slow

Exported audio levels not matching audio meters

Several threads about reduced responsiveness in 10.0.6

Titles may be shortened when uploading to Vimeo if they contain an ampersand

Encore

Here's one I had myself this week - encoding an H.264 for Blu-ray and an MPEG-2 for DVD in Adobe Media Encoder from the same ProRes 4444 source resulted in them being labelled as different lengths by both QuickTime Player and Encore. However, they both had the same start point and end point, were the same frame rate and the audio matched up perfectly so it would appear to be an issue with how the duration was reported. The strange part was that it occurred even after I re-encoded the file in Compressor.

The reason this was a problem is because Encore has a great feature where you can link Blu-ray and DVD media to create both types of disc from the same project. However, this feature relies on both files being of identical length. In the end my workaround was to simply duplicate the project and create a separate copy for the DVD version.

FCP 7

Autosaves not appearing in interface after restart

Trick for quickly revealing a sequence in the browser

Cinema Tools

Cinema Tools expects certain fields to use alphanumeric characters only