As I've been working on my first video using my own computer, I've been doing everything I can to make it look as professional as I can. I've gone through the ErMac/AD AV Guide which has helped me out so far, but I've come across a few problems.
I placed a bunch of clips onto my timeline and I decided to export the video to see how it looked (I tried doing a normal preview with the software's monitor but none of the effect's would appear after I rendered the video, things would look fine before rendering). At first, the video quality looked choppy so I decided to switch the encoding settings on the project. The video looked better afterwards, but would get worse after I put more clips onto the timeline. So far, some video cuts contain small parts of previous video cuts in them, parts of the video have slight pixelation in them, a title image wouldn't fully fade in until it was about to fade out, and a lot of times, the video just stops and Windows Media Player closes on me. I have a guess as to what is wrong, I might be using the wrong codecs to make the video.
The AV Guide asks to use PICVideo MJPEC Codec, but Premiere Pro 1.5 doesn't feature it. The codecs it offers is as follows: Cinepak Codec by Radius, Fddshow Video Codec, Huffyuv v2.1.1–CCESP Patch v0.2.5, Indeo® video 5.10, Intel Indeo® Video R3.2, Intel Indeo® Video 4.5, Intel IYUV codec, Lagarith lossless codec, Microsoft RLE, Microsoft Video 1 and XviD MPEG-4 Codec. I have been using the Fddshow Video Codec, but I wonder if I made the right choice. Should I start a brand new project with a new codec and re-edit from scratch, or would it be possible to edit like I've been doing and then take my finished video and place it in the timeline of a new project?
Also, I've experimented with the rate stretch tool to speed up some clips, but some of them look de-interlaced when sped up. Is there something I need to put in the script of the clips when I make them in VirtualDubMod or is this just something I have to deal with?
The reason I ask all of this is because I use to have someone helping me out with my videos, I've found that going it alone is a lot tougher than I expected.






