Premiere Pro CS3 crashing on import

[Lohoydo]

I'm trying to import some mkv files using the avisynth plugin into Premiere Pro CS3, but it keeps crashing. Specifically, the .avs file appears as an importable file, I select it and the "Import File" window's outline appears but the contents of the window never appear and a couple seconds later I receive the standard Windows "Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 has encountered a problem and needs to close." Anyone have any ideas how to fix this or get around it using a different method?

.avs script:

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DirectShowSource("D:\Kaleido_Star_09.mkv")

Machine:
dual 2.0 core
2 gigs of RAM
GForce 8600GTS GPU

[mirkosp]

Try putting a

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setmemorymax(1024)

before that line and see if it still happens.

[Lohoydo]

Didn't fix it.

[mirkosp]

Try getting the ffmpegsource (version 1.21 will do fine, I guess) and call the video like

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ffmpegsource("D:\Kaleido_Star_09.mkv")

That will take a bit to load the first time you load the script since it'll make an index file. Also, it won't load the audio. If you need it, call it like this, instead

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ffmpegsource("D:\Kaleido_Star_09.mkv", atrack=-1)

Be warned that the audio will be indexed as pcm though, so it'll weight quite a bit.

[Lohoydo]

OK, that didn't work, but I figured out the problem/solution
Premiere was looking for the plugins in:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS3\Plug-ins\en_US
as opposed to the folder where the avisynth plugin was putting them:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS3\MediaCore\

The copy I manually placed in the first directory was apparantly old (last modified in 2000), so after copying the file created by the installer to the directory Premiere wanted and updating avisynth to 2.5.8 it worked

Thanks for your time and effort,
Lohoydo