Here is a trick for dramatically improving AVCHD / MTS files using VLC. I was getting a lot of skipping on my macbook and now I have buttery smooth playback.
Thanks to this post on the Photography Within blog, I’ve now found a trick that enables VLC to play these files very smoothly – you just have to change one setting:
Go to Tools > Preferences
In the lower left of the box click the checkbox “Show settings – All”
Then go to Input & Codecs > Other Codecs > FFmpeg and look for the option called “Skip the loop filter for H.264 decoding”
Change it from “none” to “all”
Restart VLC
So I am working on a project in Premiere Pro CS4. I imported a composition from After Effects using Dynamic Link. When I exported the final movie the portion from After Effects rendered as just a black screen. Turn out the problem was that the After Effects FPS did not match the Premiere Time Line FPS. It took me forever to figure this out.
This is the tip that help me figure it out:
Apparently in 4.2.1 there is a bug that if the fps of the Dynamically linked comp is not the same as the sequence fps…it won’t render the comp.
I changed the comp from 30fps to 29.97 to match the sequence and it rendered.