exporting an AVS script from Premiere

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exporting an AVS script from Premiere

Postby projecto2501 » Fri Oct 18, 2002 8:28 pm

Hello all,

I seem to remember reading in ErMac's guide about being able to expoet an AVS scrip from Premiere, and that this scrip could be fed to either TMPEGenc or VirtualDub. Now I can't seen to find where the instructions are. Any one know?

By the way, I've been trying to export my amv using HufFYUV but AVS bugs out after a few minutes of footage and starts inserting random footage and the audio stutters, so I'm looking for an easier way to get my Premiere project into TMEGenc.

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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Fri Oct 18, 2002 9:23 pm

If it's not working when exporting to HuffYUV then it's not going to work with anything else - are you sure it's your AVS that's producing random frames?

You arent using VFAPI are you?

To answer your question, there is a premiere frameserver that you can get from videotools.net but if you are doing 2 pass or encoding something more than once then this is has no advantage over HuffYUV whatsoever.
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Postby projecto2501 » Mon Oct 21, 2002 1:18 am

I think it's AVISynth because occationally one of the ramdon frames will be one of those red text AVISynth error messages (all the .avs files are working fine untill render time).

I think I might be running out of memory (even the max ~4.5 gigs of swap file on my to hard drives is not enough) since the errors occur after roughly the same amount of time every time I render (but the errors are diffrent each time).

I'm not using VFAPI on this one...

If I use the Premiere frameserver, I can still do a two pass encode, right? (or did you mean that two pass encodes can not be done, or have no benifit with the frameserver?)

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Postby klinky » Mon Oct 21, 2002 2:05 am

The frameserver takes exported frames from one application you're using and sends it to another application to use and process.

If you do it from Premiere, Premiere has to add all the effects you did to each frame before your other application can have access to it. So if you did a two pass, Premiere would basically render your video twice. If it takes 30minutes for Premiere to process your video. If you want to do a two-p1ass encode then it would take well over a hour.
It's better to export to a fast codec with all the frames already rendered and stored. Say if you use huffYUV you have the 30minute export, but if you want to make a VCD, SVCD, two-pass divx/xvid file, then you can do it ALOT quicker since you don't have to wait for Premiere to add all the effects over again.

As for the AVISynth problem, what is the error message you get? Are you using the latest version of AVISynth? What about the AviSynth plugin for Premiere? The latest version of AVISynth has better memory usage... May help... :\


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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Mon Oct 21, 2002 6:02 am

Make sure you arent slowing down any avisynth footage to really low speeds. This is a known bug with avisynth that it will crash if you slow it down to 10% etc in premiere.

It can also happen if you use too many effects, so try checking things like this.
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Postby projecto2501 » Tue Oct 22, 2002 8:13 pm

Thanks for the tips and advice! I'll see what I can do.
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