I just re-installed my OS, so there shouldn't be any junk I don't know about.
I work in Adobe Premiere CS4 (I can't use CS5, because I have 32bit OS). When it was installing, it installed a bunch of its own codecs and I didn't install any other codecs. The only other A/V software I installed was the latest version of Media Player Classic, After Effects 7.0 and Yamb.
My main video source is a H264 encoded 15GB 720p file. Other sources are lossless AVI clips rendered from AE.
When I render in H264 from Premiere, these problems are way worse and more frequent then when I render in lossless. The problem isn't present at all with the lossless files from After Effects (the crawl, the 1st flyby and so on), only with the H264 compressed files, so I'm assuming working with lossless only should solve the problem.
I work and render at 25fps.
Here's the whole list of properies of the H264 main source I'm currently using:
General
Complete name : D:\Media\STAR WARS\01 SW\1977 Episode IV - A New Hope 1080p_track1\BluRay_You_Too.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 14.8 GiB
Duration : 1h 54mn
Overall bit rate : 18.4 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-11-07 14:17:48
Tagged date : UTC 2011-11-07 14:17:48
Writing application : Yamb 2.1.0.0 [http://yamb.unite-video.com]
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1h 54mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 18.4 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 40.0 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 542 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.063
Stream size : 14.8 GiB (100%)
Writing library : x264 core 116 r2074 2641b9e
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=1 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x3 / me=dia / subme=1 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=0 / rc=crf / mbtree=0 / crf=14.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=40000 / vbv_bufsize=40000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.0
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2011-11-07 14:17:48
Tagged date : UTC 2011-11-07 14:36:48