How to tell what codec a Video was compressed with...
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Zeaul
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One of those new codecs did the trick, the .AVS file will import now. BUT now I come across some other problems. The audio seems to be broken up, chopping in and out every second so it sounds awful and the video seems to chop a little with it as well. Also it seems to be in widescreen format, is there an editing mode in Premiere the supports widescreen? I looked for it but cannot seem to find it anywhere, I'm sure there is options somewhere in there I'm overlooking something.
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Arigatomina
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Yep, that pack is all I've ever needed to download for xvid/divx problems.
As for the choppiness - it's probably a bad encode, not much you can do about that except edit around it (save your huffyuv clips from the non-choppy parts). Widescreen - I can't say for sure, but I've seen vids done in premier where the footage was widescreen and I've never heard of it being a problem. Though you could always use Vdub's 'trim' filter to cut it into fullscreen (no one does this, so you probably won't want to - it stretches the footage). Otherwise, a quick tip - if the source footage isn't great looking you might want to use Vdub's 'smooth' filter, or another filter or two to clean it up before you convert your clips to huffyuv and edit with them. Better to clean it up before rather than after you make a vid out of it.
As for the choppiness - it's probably a bad encode, not much you can do about that except edit around it (save your huffyuv clips from the non-choppy parts). Widescreen - I can't say for sure, but I've seen vids done in premier where the footage was widescreen and I've never heard of it being a problem. Though you could always use Vdub's 'trim' filter to cut it into fullscreen (no one does this, so you probably won't want to - it stretches the footage). Otherwise, a quick tip - if the source footage isn't great looking you might want to use Vdub's 'smooth' filter, or another filter or two to clean it up before you convert your clips to huffyuv and edit with them. Better to clean it up before rather than after you make a vid out of it.
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Corran
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klinky
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Zeaul >> Why are you using AVIsynth. If it's an AVI File thre is no reason to. Well 'cept Premiere doesn't like working with XviD files and will usually give you a black screen.
What you need to do is use VirtualDub to cut out clips and save them as something like HuffYUV then import those clips into Premiere. I would preview with an MJPEG codec. A evalution version of an MJPEG code is available here : http://www.jpg.com/jpeg2000.htm.
This will give you much higher performance than running your AVI file through AVISynth.
As for it being wide-screen. This is kind of a no brainer. You need to learn about resolution. X,Y man, height/width. To find out the darn resolution of the file you can use Virtual Dub's File|File Information to tell you that. Then just input the proper settings into Premiere's project settings. Make sure "4:3" is unchecked. You'll also have to reflect these settings in the Export settings as well.
ffdshow will not decode stuff for AVISource or Premiere because it is a directshow filter and AVISouce/Premiere use the VfW API to access AVI files.
Next time use a FourCC changer(http://www.inmatrix.com/files/avic_download.shtml) to lookup the FourCC of the AVI @ a website like here : http://www.movieking.co.uk/guides/fourcc.html ...
What you need to do is use VirtualDub to cut out clips and save them as something like HuffYUV then import those clips into Premiere. I would preview with an MJPEG codec. A evalution version of an MJPEG code is available here : http://www.jpg.com/jpeg2000.htm.
This will give you much higher performance than running your AVI file through AVISynth.
As for it being wide-screen. This is kind of a no brainer. You need to learn about resolution. X,Y man, height/width. To find out the darn resolution of the file you can use Virtual Dub's File|File Information to tell you that. Then just input the proper settings into Premiere's project settings. Make sure "4:3" is unchecked. You'll also have to reflect these settings in the Export settings as well.
ffdshow will not decode stuff for AVISource or Premiere because it is a directshow filter and AVISouce/Premiere use the VfW API to access AVI files.
Next time use a FourCC changer(http://www.inmatrix.com/files/avic_download.shtml) to lookup the FourCC of the AVI @ a website like here : http://www.movieking.co.uk/guides/fourcc.html ...