Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 Generating Bad Exports

[DJ_Izumi]

So up untill now, I've always used Premiere 6.5. I liked my A/B editing and my Athlon XP didn't have SSE2 so no Pro 2.0 or higher for me anyway.

Well, that changed on Sunday when I swapped out my mobo and CPU and now my editing stuff is CS3 across the board.

This is where I've encountered the problem. I'm working on my first AMV since 2006 and I'm using Pro CS3. The issue is, I can't export anything except for uncompressed AVI or DV footage. If I export using anything decent and compressed and 'disc space efficent', the results are bad data. I've tried Lagarith, HuffYUV, MJPEG and even DivX 6. They are getting garbage data thrown into the encodes resulting in numerious bad frames with visual glitches and the exports basicly being unuseable. In some cases the encodes have enough problems that they will crash the encoder that I put the export into, like VirtualDub.

This also seems to effect the Render Work Area function. Only uncompressed AVI and DV formats seem to export correctly.

Naturally, this is pretty unacceptable, so hopefully someone can tell me what's wrong? I never had this issue in Premiere 6.5.

Additionally, these codecs work fine for export from VirtualDub and Adobe After Effects. They also render INTO Premiere just fine as well.

This is pretty unacceptable, so does anyone have any helpful ideas?

[mirkosp]

Premiere has always been well known for the garbage in non-uncompressed exports (actually, some people had that issue with 6.x versions too). You have some solutions:
1) Export as uncompressed. If you have enough free space, you can live with that.
2) Import the premiere project into ae. If you aren't using .avs files directly, you can import the premiere project into ae and export as huffyuv/lagarith from there. If you do have .avs files directly, I suggest making fake avis using vfapi and then, when you import the project into ae, replace the avs footage with the .avi footage that vfapi made.
3) Using Debugmode's FrameServer when exporting. It will frameserve your premiere timeline to whichever program you need, virtualdubmod too.

There might be other solutions that don't come to my mind right know. Also, I suggest you to check out this guide if you haven't yet, cause it will help.