Help with editing method...

[Al'x]

Since my past AMVs were totally disorganized, and took a very long time to make, I decided to use "Premiere" to sequence the video. I used the premiere plugin that allows avisynth scripts to be treated like video files.

However, once the video was about 1:00 long, Premiere became so laggy and buggy that it became impossible to continue (crash every 5 minutes). The flaw is obviously in the editing method, since I have a very good computer, good vcard, good CPU, 1024MB RAM, etc.

Here is my editing method
1-start by ripping DVD into VOBs with dvddecrypter
2-index with dgdecode
3-make an avs of the d2v
4-make multiple small avs's importing from step 3 avs that cover all the parts of the source that I might want to use
5-"fix" ("preprocess"?) the avs's from step 4 using YATTA (i.e. telecide/decimate the footage with overrides, plus do some freezeframing and stuff), then crop and lanczos
6-determine the clips I want to import into premiere, then make another avs importing an avs from step 5 and bring this into premiere
7-fiddle around with all clips in premiere
8-export from premiere (at this point the scripts are out of the picture and the rest is not important)

I am wondering what in this list will most optimize the editing

-making sure everything is on the same hard drive (right now all my files are basically distributed randomly between 2 hard drives)
-making the avs files into AVI's before importing into premiere (kinda a "last resort")
-something I can't think of

Also, any advice to make the editing method more efficient would be nice =)

[Scintilla]

Why do you need step 4? Going through two stacked layers of AVISynth can't be a good thing for processing speed.