Help with Encoding

MADfan1 · Post by **MADfan1** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:43 am

Hi all, my first post. I am currently working on my very first AMV and I am having a problem with the encoding. I am using Adobe Premiere Pro. I came to the forums and found that encoding with huffyuv was best. However after doing this when I try to play the file nothing shows up on the screen but a black screen using, Winamp, Windows classic etc. So then I try putting it into virtualdub but I get

error: MPEG Import Filter: invalid pack at position 3: marker bit not set; possibly MPEG-2 stream

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So I went back to Adobe and just exported it as mpeg2. This works, shows up in media player but the size is 179mb. I would like to get it down to about 100mb so that I can upload it to YouTube. So I used Digital Media Converter 2.4. This did reduce the size but now the music is all out of sync with the video.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:53 am

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... xport.html

MADfan1 · Post by **MADfan1** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:29 am

yeah I followed all those steps. However it still plays with a black screen...no video or audio. I ran the file through G-Spot and it said everything was fine. All codecs were there blah blah.

MADfan1 · Post by **MADfan1** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:38 am

Well theres no edit button...

Using VirtualDubMod instead of just Virtualdub I was able to edit the mpg into an avi file under 100mb with ausio and everything working fine.

I still don't understand why when I encode with the huffy codec nothing shows up on screen. Even if Gspot says everything is good.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:48 am

Do you have the "Always suggest RGB mode for output" box checked? Not that you should be trying to open a HuffYUV file in a normal media player anyway (that doesn't include things like VirtualDub(/Mod)).