Premiere Hates Me: Exporting Problems

7sigma · Post by **7sigma** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:54 pm

Greetings, everyone.

I'm in a bit of trouble and I thought I could ask you guys for some help. I've delayed this to get as much information as I could and try to to fix it alone, but I've reached my limit.

The problem is: I've been, for the first time, editing directly with the .avs files in Premiere. Editing went trough like a breeze, but when I tried to export the finished project, one of these two errors took place:
1) The project wasn't exported at all, instead giving me some random-named corrupt files, or
2) The project WAS exported, but the footage was delayed about half an hour (that is, if a scene that I used in my video started exactly at the end of the first hour of the DVD, it was replaced by some other scene that ocurred almost half an hour before).

I suspected the slow-motion I did in my video was the guilty, but it wasn't. Even after I remove all the scenes in altered speed the project still won't be exported.

Then, I suspected my .avs file, and I made a new one. Bingo, the new one had a different duration - about half an hour longer. However, I can't find a way to replace my faulty .avs for any other! If I simply delete it and make a new one, the new one gets corrupted the second it steps foot on Premiere. Replace Clips made the PC crash, and I haven't thought of any other method.

Any ideas?

Footage is Cowboy Bebop - The Movie, a 16:9 anamorphic, interlaced (telecined) DVD.
Software is Premiere 6.5, the most evil piece of data in the planet.
My PC is an Athlon XP 2400+ with a 256MB FX5600 video card.

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:25 pm

I had this problem with some .avs scripts before, using some weirdly telecined Orphen footage.

Try this line at the bottom of the .avs script:

Code: Select all

AssumeFPS(24)

Or, if you're doing the project at 29.97, replace accordingly. This forces the .avs script into feeding the clips at the same rate, so if it hits a 29.97 progressive section, it doesn't go weird. Or something. I'm still not sure why my .avs scripts borked....

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:49 pm

Sounds like you might have remade the d2v files, or else pointed the avs files to different files? In any case these could be any number of things that could have gone wrong. You say the clips in your video are delayed by an hour and a half? Then that means that there is now an additional hour and a half of video in your avs files. Look through the avs and see whats there that wasnt there before. Is it just black space? Is it a couple more episodes? Post your script and lets see.

Jason 00 · Post by **Jason 00** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:53 pm

Well, first thing I would do is bring your .avs into Virtual Dub and make sure your ripped DVD footage is displayed properly (i.e. cropping, resizing, etc.) Also go to File> File Information> this will display the frame rate and overall duration of your .avs. Make sure if you are using IVTC within your script that your frame rate has not been changed. That could be why your scenes seem so far out of sync. ChangeFPS(?) or AssumeFPS(?) will allow you to make adjustments within your script, just add one near or at the end. As far as your .avs becoming

corrupt

make sure your timecode settings within Premiere matches your .avs files frames per second 30FPS or 24FPS. Also what codec are you trying to export with. Divx or Xvid will cause nothing but problems within Premiere. I have seen DivX throw up an error in Premiere 6.0 just because it could'nt encode one of the canned effects properly. If none of this advice helped out, perhaps you could post a copy of your script?

Jason 00 · Post by **Jason 00** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:57 pm

Man, when I first started no one else had posted yet. Got distracted

, most of what I siad has already been posted now >_<

7sigma · Post by **7sigma** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:44 pm

Here's my script:

mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\Lune\Meus documentos\Footage\Cowboy\cowboy.d2v",ipp=true,cpu=4)
AssumeFPS(24)
LanczosResize(848,480)
ConvertToYUY2()
_2dcleanYUY2(0,10,2,3)
ConvertToRGB32()

I'm trying your suggestions, I'll tell you if it worked. Thank you for the help.

SQ · Post by SQ » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:45 pm

0o the first line needs to be

mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\Lune\Meus.d2v")

SQ · Post by SQ » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:46 pm

SQ wrote:0o the first line needs to be

mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\Lune\Meus.d2v")

Nevermind. I read it wrong. I'm an idiot. Ignore me.

7sigma · Post by **7sigma** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:06 pm

Don't worry SQ, it happens.

As to your sugestions:
1) Moving the AssumeFPS(24) to the end of the script changes nothing.
2) The project settings match my video in every way.
3) I'm exporting in uncompressed RGB, so it is not a codec issue.
4) Zarzrax, I think you are on the right track. Maybe somewhere along the way I might have used a similarly named .avs as footage, but this other .avs was IVTCd. Unfortunately, I've deleted that .avs, so I can't tell how it was. I'll try to remake it and see if it works.

7sigma · Post by **7sigma** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:20 pm

That was it! I must have remade my script somewhere along the line and forgot to do IVTC, so the lenght and fps rate of my video were different than the project.

Just remade the .avs and did IVTC, now the sinch match!

Thank you guys very much for the help.