Adobe Premiere CS3 + AVISynth + MKV files = Stuttering Video

Omikami_Amaterasu · Post by **Omikami_Amaterasu** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:20 am

Hey everyone! I am currently trying my hands on my first AMV ever; it's going to involve a lot of fighter planes so needless to say the Macross series and Sentou Yousei Yukikaze are involved... unfortunately a whole lot of them are MKV files and after digging around on Google a bit I found out two ways to import MKV into Premiere; the first is demux the MKV using MKVExtractGUI, which seems to be spitting out H.264 files for the video track (and since Premiere can't import H.264 natively I renamed the file to .m4v and it imports); the second is using AVISynth.

Now the problem. It seems like both methods yields a playback problem in Premier in which the video stutters/jumps around all over the place - almost as if Premiere is getting the frame orders confused. Has anyone encountered this problem?

Paranoir · Post by **Paranoir** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:05 am

I think you should convert them to lagarith for editing, editing with mkvs is laggy!

milkmandan · Post by **milkmandan** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:31 pm

What Paranoir said is right.

What I do, is demux the MKV out so you get that nice little xxxx.h264 file.
I then used AVC2AVI to convert the .h264 file to an avi.

At this point you can use VDubMod and convert to a lossless codec for smoother playback in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Lagarith works, so does Huffy. It's all up to you.

Vivaldi · Post by **Vivaldi** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:14 pm

I'd just make an avs file out of the mkv, and convert that to lags.

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:12 am

uncompressed for chewing up as much HDD space as possible....

or buy the DVDs they are on special atm for the collectors edition