I've done some searches in this section and it seems I'm not the only one who has had this problem. Let me outline it for you:
So, I'm following VicBond's DVD Footage guide, right? I get my footage, import into Premiere Pro v.7 and mess around for 6 weeks, then export it as per instructions. I look back in the guide to distribution, and it says download TMPGEnc and put in such and such settings. I follow it to a T, hit start, and wait 20 minutes. It dings when finished and I happily go to my C drive to the video file. That's odd, its only 20 megs, I thought it would be much larger. I open it up, and what's there? 5 and a half minutes of audio, with a nice black screen.
I try this several times, and I also attempted it with my friends first AMV he created (we formed a studio and he handed his over to me since he doesn't have internet), and it didn't work either. I finally said "screwit" and downloaded MediaCoder and tried to export an MPEG2 from there. No go, doesn't encode correctly. I try it on various other formats, and it ends up similarly. My only possible theory is that Adobe Premiere does a crappy job of exporting workable AVI footage, but thats something of a wild guess.
The only compressed copy I have is from a fit of desperation when I threw it into Windows Movie Maker and exported at the highest setting.
Sorry for not doing some more research, I probably could have found an answer with a little digging.
Some Notes:
Adobe Premiere Pro v.7
TMPGEnc 2.5 Trial
Huffyuv Format AVI
Windows XP Media Center




