Advice for people having problems exporting from Premiere

[BishounenStalker]

If you're using fade transitions, use the ones provided by Premiere VERY sparingly. These kill virtual memory faster than the Bubonic Plague in Europe, and your video may not export completely. My advice is to save them strictly for complete fade-outs and fade-ins.

How to get around it:

Create your own fades using an extra video track. Take the part of the previous clip you want to fade out and place it in video track 2. Use the Video Options > Transparency palette to set your Key, then use the handles in the video track to fade it out. Repeat this procedure using the part of the next clip, but put it in Video Track 3 and fade it in. Voila, homemade transition.

Combined with the filters available to you in Virtualdub, you'll save your virtual memory and still get good-looking fades.

[klinky]

I do not know what type of computer you have, but I have never had problems with transitions. Atleast when I used them on my first three videos. Rubberbands are much l33ter and most of the transitions in Premiere look cheap anyways.

I never used Premiere on a machine with less then 256MB of ram, so maybe you have less? I never ran into a problem exporting my video becasue of transitions.


^_^

~klinky

[NicholasDWolfwood]

If you're using fade transitions, use the ones provided by Premiere VERY sparingly. These kill virtual memory faster than the Bubonic Plague in Europe, and your video may not export completely. My advice is to save them strictly for complete fade-outs and fade-ins.

How to get around it:

Create your own fades using an extra video track. Take the part of the previous clip you want to fade out and place it in video track 2. Use the Video Options > Transparency palette to set your Key, then use the handles in the video track to fade it out. Repeat this procedure using the part of the next clip, but put it in Video Track 3 and fade it in. Voila, homemade transition.

Combined with the filters available to you in Virtualdub, you'll save your virtual memory and still get good-looking fades.

I never have any problems exporting. Only problem I had was that the Premiere pre-made effects wouldn't show up when I exported, but I never rendered them, so I just use rubberbands. I also have a 4.25GB swap file along with 512MB of real RAM.

[BishounenStalker]

I dunno. My second video that I just completed a couple days ago wouldn't export completely. It'd get to around frame 6800 before telling me I didn't have enough RAM (I'm on Win2K Professional if that's a factor). I literally had to zoom out so I could see where it was stopping or getting lagged, and I noticed it was the transitions. I used the rubberbands and had no trouble.

I'm not even sure of "my" (read: the family) comp's specs, only that e just increased the hard drive to 120GB because our old one crashed and burned. But I'm sure our RAM sucks.

The only reason I didn't have trouble with the first video was because I used all rubberbands since I had no clue how to use the transitions palette.

I guess this is just some advice for anyone else who doesn't have enough RAM (besides scorig more chips. This is a temporary fix until you do).

[jbone]

Are you using DivX source? I've only ever had problems like that when trying t export from DivX.

[BishounenStalker]

Yeah, I was. I had Final Fantasy and Chrono Cross footage that I'd ripped into uber high-quality DivX files o.o

[Akashio]

Yeah, I was. I had Final Fantasy and Chrono Cross footage that I'd ripped into uber high-quality DivX files o.o

Well THAT'S your problem, dummy! Premiere HATES DivX, and I for one don't understand why anyone would WANT to edit with DivX in the first place besides HDD space and you said you have 120g

[Mr Pilkington]

If you're using fade transitions, use the ones provided by Premiere VERY sparingly. These kill virtual memory faster than the Bubonic Plague in Europe, and your video may not export completely. My advice is to save them strictly for complete fade-outs and fade-ins.

How to get around it:

Create your own fades using an extra video track. Take the part of the previous clip you want to fade out and place it in video track 2. Use the Video Options > Transparency palette to set your Key, then use the handles in the video track to fade it out. Repeat this procedure using the part of the next clip, but put it in Video Track 3 and fade it in. Voila, homemade transition.

Combined with the filters available to you in Virtualdub, you'll save your virtual memory and still get good-looking fades.

I have had said problem once... once. It was on my (late) file server system/honeypot. MMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 466 and VooDoo 3. So sucklicous. And the only reason i was using that is because my main computer was on the fritz.

[BishounenStalker]

Well THAT'S your problem, dummy! Premiere HATES DivX, and I for one don't understand why anyone would WANT to edit with DivX in the first place besides HDD space and you said you have 120g

Depends on what you're editing. Since I was using video game footage, I could only rip it into AVI format with PSxMc, and that limits the choice of good codecs. Cinepak sucks horribly (big files, low quality), Premiere won't even read Indeo, and Microsoft's native codecs are even worse than Cinepak. Hence, DivX/XviD is your best bet for quality alone (even though I have a 120GB hard drive, it's never a bad thing to get good quality AND save space).

[FurryCurry]

I've never ripped game footage, but what about exporting that as a HuffYUV encoded AVI? or setting XviD up to encode at maximum bitrate, and then converting what you need to Huffy after?