Premiere won't export- help!

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Premiere won't export- help!

Postby Penguin_Factory » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:17 pm

So, I finished the video I was working on in my last noob-question thread.

I tried exporting it a few times with disasterous results (more about that in a sec) but now Premiere freezes up whenever I try it again. The progress bar appears and everything, but it just sits there and is eventually labelled "not responding". Can anyone help me out with this?

Another issue: I'm using the Xvid MPEG-4 codec as a compressor and every time I save the file comes out too big or too low quality. I've read the compression section in A&E's technical guide, but what I need to know is where to put the slider bar thing for a manageable size.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:58 pm

Don't export with a compressed format in Premiere. Export uncompressed, it solves a lot of problems. Then recompress with VirtualDubMod.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:18 pm

^ Oh, okay. I was thinking there must be an easier way to do it.

What exactly is VirtualDubMod? Is that the same as the VirtualDub program, or do I need to download something else.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:31 pm

It's an expanded version of the program that has a lot of features you might have used more on the clipping end of things. For what you need now, I think VDub would be fine.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:02 am

Hmm...... I got the file down to 70 MB at decent quality, but there's yet another problem.

I noticed that the original avi file that Premiere exported has some video issues that weren't there while I was making the AMV. Specifically, everything is kind of fuzzy and during cross-fades (of which there are lots) a narrow horizontal line appears for a second during the transition.

I'm guessing this is something wrong with the source footage that I couldn't see in Premiere's small screen. Is it too late to go back and spruce it up with Virtualdub?
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:18 pm

Did you export uncompressed? I've gotten problems like that after I exported with HuffYUV before, but never uncompressed.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:19 pm

I'm not entirely sure whether the problem file was uncompressed or not.... I'll try again and see what happens.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:48 pm

Okay, looks like I saved the original footage incorrectly with Virtualdub.

I just want to make sure before I do anything, will changing the interlacing and resolution of the clips mess up my AMV at all? The footage will still be recognized as long as the file paths and names are the same, right?
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:05 pm

I'm not entirely sure, but I think:

If you didn't deinterlace to begin with you're going to have to redo or re-synch your entire video clip by clip because deinterlacing changes the number of frames in your clips.

If someone know's a method that fixes this without issue or i'm completely off base, speak up please.
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Postby Melanchthon » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:20 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:I'm not entirely sure, but I think:

If you didn't deinterlace to begin with you're going to have to redo or re-synch your entire video clip by clip because deinterlacing changes the number of frames in your clips.

Decimation reduces the framerate. Plain decombing of each frame will preserve the framerate, but I wouldn't bet on any lipsynch being preserved. I'd leave the resolution as it is and resize the whole thing after export, unless you used any effects that would be affected by the resize. You'd probably have to redo those.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:38 pm

Plain decombing of each frame will preserve the framerate, but I wouldn't bet on any lipsynch being preserved


I'm not even sure if the problem (the line thing) is being caused by inter-lacing, since it only happens on cross-fades, and it's only one extremely narrow part that's affected. Movement and such is fine.

I'd leave the resolution as it is and resize the whole thing after export


I can do that with Virtualdub, right? Also, what would the normal resolution for an AMV be? The footage is NTSC widescreen, if that affects things.
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Postby Melanchthon » Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:17 pm

Penguin_Factory wrote:I'm not even sure if the problem (the line thing) is being caused by inter-lacing, since it only happens on cross-fades, and it's only one extremely narrow part that's affected. Movement and such is fine.

So your footage was imported progressive? I dunno then. Got a screenshot?

Also, what would the normal resolution for an AMV be? The footage is NTSC widescreen, if that affects things.

Any resolution where the width and the height can be divided by 16 and the aspect ratio is as close to 16:9 as you can get will do.

Couple of resolutions you can try: 848x480, 640x352, 512x288. The middle one is the one I see most often.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:39 am

Here's a partial screenshot:

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It doesn't look very big there, but it's extremely distracting in motion.
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