I am using method 3 of editing in premiere as detailed in eadfag (i.e. edit with MJPEG, switch out later with .avs files). I am only 1/4 done with my amv, but I felt like exporting it to see how it looks with perfect quality (the picvideo MJEG codec is not very flattering in editing). I hid my MJPEG files, then told my premiere to take the .avs files instead. I previewed all the neccessary areas. So far so Good.
And heres where the shit hit the fan. I have a lower end computer (Celeron Processor, 512 sdr RAM, master drive is only 20 GB (with a 120 GB slave)) so my virtual memory is decent if not low. It has never given me serious problems until now. When I export my timeline, the entire process would only take a matter of minutes, except after processing about 15 seconds of my timeline, my computer crashes do to lack of virtual memory (all other applications are closed, there is no wallpaper, etc).
Realizing that exporting my entire 50 seconds was impossible, I created 4 work areas and exported the 50 seconds in three 15 second peices and one 5 second peice. This came very close to crashing my computer but it just survived. I opened up the clips (my clips are Huffyuv compressed and run at 30 fps, which is the rate premiere edits at). They played PERFECTLY (no skipping, still in perfect sync). Yay!
Now all I have to do is open up my first clip, then "Append AVI segment" the other 3. I open up VDUB, and because all four clips are the same resolution and framerate (and color type) they append nicely. I set up all my filters and compression, and I export a xvid (1st pass) file with sound. After the encoding completes, I view the file. Not long into the file (before where the 2nd file appends) the file begins very quickly to fall out of sync, skip critical frames, and slow down by as much as 10 times whenever any fancy editing crosses the screen (i.e. movement effect). According to VDub, the audio is running at 30.001 fps. So running my video at 30 fps should not cause such blatant problems (the HuffyUv source clips (15,15,15,5) ran at 30 fps and were perfectly in sync without ever skipping frames or slowing down). I tried encoding it at 24 fps, but that didnt work either. The file actually seemed more in sync for some reason, but the slow down was not improved and the file was still terribly damaged.
I read the guide again, and I double checked all of my advanced settings. My max bitrate is 10000. (the guide implied that this would be as high a value as I would ever need, and recommended lowering it if possible).
[I have considered the possibiliy of swapping xvid 1st pass files instead of .avs files (I dont have enough space to swap with huffyuv, which would take about 100+ GB for an entire anime series, which is what I am using) so that Premiere could process the entire the entire vid without running out of memory. However, this would mean my final product would be an XVID of an XVID. It would still be good quality, but not perfect quality.]

