AVI refuses to open in editors or converters HELP!

DaPatches · Post by **DaPatches** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:01 pm

Deadline for a contest is coming up. Here's my problem. I have downloaded Peach Girl and it plays just fine in all my video players.

The problem is, that when I try to open these files in premeire it crashes premeire. When I try to open them in AFterFX, it gives me this error

I also cannot convert them, they crash the converter and even windows movie maker o.0

any suggestions?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:24 am

What converter are you using? Shouldn't crash VirtualDub(/Mod), which you should be able to use to convert the clips you need to something editable, like HuffYUV. There's also <a href="http://www.eo-video.com">EO Video</a> worth a try.

But, <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... ">um...</a>

DaPatches · Post by **DaPatches** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:58 pm

It's peach girl, it has not ben released in the US and is still airing on television in japan ^^

downloding it from [site name removed] where they dont host anything illegal ^^

[MOD42: Name of site with downloadable anime removed. It's still illegal, even if it isn't licensed.]

DaPatches · Post by **DaPatches** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:01 pm

http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,1667 ... _girl.html

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:45 pm

After Effects and Premiere prefer every frame to be a keyframe in a video. XviD and DivX under standard settings do not do this. Think of it like this. What Premiere wants is a video that each frame is the whole thing, like this:

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But in order to compress better, XviD/DivX use some fancy techniques to only keep track of the differences between frames rather than the full frame itself, like this:

|------|--|---|--------|----|------------|--|

So, if in Premiere you wanted to cut the first 3 frames off the clip, it would no longer have that first frame to get the rest of the picture from and you end up with that green mess that you see in a lot of (hate to stereotype) LBZ/Sum Naruto videos. Plus, if it's encoded weird, sometimes it'll just crash Premiere (as it's doing to you) whereas a video player will just skip the weird frame and move on.

You're best bet would be to open up the file in VirtualDub and resave with a HuffYUV codec. The file will be huge but they probably won't crash stuff anymore.

DaPatches · Post by **DaPatches** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:55 pm

:sigh: I went to gotdo that <save in huffyUV> but alas, I only have like 7 gigs free on my HDD...not enough T.T

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:52 am

Could try just taking the clips you want from the show and saving them (using the in and out point controls in VirtualDub to cut out stuff and save only those sections in HuffYUV). I did my very first video that way. Of course I didn't know how to clean footage at the time but it came out more or less okay...