The Strange Avi

Zotto · Post by **Zotto** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:59 am

Ok It's always me, First of all I want to sey hallo to all my fans in this section of the forum

Now let's start with "the problem of the day"

Since I have always used dvd footage for my amvs (lol I have made 2 amvs), I am not ready to answer to problems brought by "internet downloaded stuff".

Don't blame on me it's that I am italian and some kind of stuff are hard to find and I don't want for now to pay things via internet...

So your favourite forum member (aka me), had this avi, and here's what's happened:

I tried to put it in dgmpegdec to create an avs file but it didn't read it.

I tried to put it in virtual dub mod, but it didn't read it saying that "xvidcore.dll" (or was it divxcore.dll I can't remember) was missing, no problem I downloaded it (google > virtual dub mod) and made it run on virtual dub mod, but I still couldn't create an avs file.

So with no information of this avi (interlaced, framesize or whatever) I put it into premiere, and here's what premiere said.

Importing file:..... Yeah It didn't go through, and my pc neither was loading

So I went back to virtual dub mod and converted it with lagaryth (as you can see I was trying to follow the dvd footage procedure for amv making), but it did the same thing that the previous file had, didn't work with ae, dgmpegdec, avisynth, and didn't load in premiere.

So I am telling you: what can I do to make it readable? And what can I do to understand which are the characteristics of this Avi?

Please Don't leave your favourite noob all alone. Or I'll cry

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:59 am

<b>AVISource("C:\mypath\myvideo.avi")</b>

That's all you need to make an AVS file.
Paste that into Notepad, change the path and filename to whatever AVI file you're trying to load, save it with an .AVS extension, and open the sucker in VirtualDubMod.

Alternatively, VirtualDubMod has an "Open file via AVISynth..." option, which automatically creates an AVISynth script file for the video you're trying to open.
In newer versions (e.g., 1.5.10), this functionality is included in the normal Open dialog (the "Use AVISynth template" menu).

Zotto · Post by **Zotto** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:57 am

it didn't work scintilla, I've already tried the second way you proposed here...

here's what vdm writes:

Cannot determine file type of "c..bla bla bla"

even if I can make it work without avisynth scrypt

The main problem is, anyway to make it workable on premiere

Zotto · Post by **Zotto** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:58 am

Omg... my HuffYUV compressor is vanished

I can't neither open old amvs made by it because vdm says that it's missing in my pc...

How do i fix it

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Zotto · Post by **Zotto** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:15 am

I had to reinstall the whole amvapp thing.

Noy yuf is still there, but still I can't create an avs file, but after I reloaded amvapp the error changed: it's now:

Avisynth open failure:
ACM failed to suggest a compatible PCM format (c:\blah blah blah, line 2).

I don't know what that mean, Now I am trying to compress it with yuf... maybe it will be workable on premiere after that

, but with lagaryth it didn't work

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:55 am

It doesnt like the audio stream, disable the audio using this:

AVISource("C:\mypath\myvideo.avi", audio=false)

Zotto · Post by **Zotto** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:10 am

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:It doesnt like the audio stream, disable the audio using this:

AVISource("C:\mypath\myvideo.avi", audio=false)

OHHHH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH IT WORKS IT WORKS

thank you!!!

Ok step one: done

Now, what kind of work should I do on avisynth to make this sucker avi aviable for premiere? And still I don't have file informations... How can I get em?

Zotto · Post by **Zotto** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:45 am

I changed the fps from 23.9 to 25 and resized with landcozsresize (840 x 480, maybe it's a little weird), and I couldn't see any interlacing, then compressed with lagaryth

premiere finally read it, but it didn't conform my avi so I couldn't put it into the timeline and work on it...

I tried to get more information on the avi I had compressed with dgmpegdec, but it didn't work. If I try to check the avi, it crashes, if I try to check the .avs file and then I hit play to do the preview it istantly says that the preview is complete and gives me no information.

What can I do ç_ç Maybe I should get a different frame size, but it's too weird, before I modified it the only information I had on this avi were:

NTSC 23.976 fps, size 856 x 480, I couldn't see any interlacing with checkfieldorder(), And I don't know anything else since I couldn't use dgmpegdec...

Tell me a way to make it possible to use it in premiere... please...

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:54 am

23,976 suggests FILM, which is progressive which is not interlaced - that's if it's encoded correctly.

Zotto · Post by **Zotto** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:08 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:23,976 suggests FILM, which is progressive which is not interlaced - that's if it's encoded correctly.

that's good to know

maybe the problem could be the dimension? 856 x 480... Maybe lagaryth doesn't like it much and makes it impossible to render it with premiere...

Should I change it into something else with avisynth?

My first try, 840 x 480 didn't work, now I am just compressing it with lagarith without modifing the avi via avysinth.. Hope it will work..

Any suggestion?