Slowly learning but still have questions

Speedy_Lube · Post by **Speedy_Lube** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:32 pm

Well I have some real problems here.

I have been making videos in Premiere and can't figure out the whole encoding process. Oh sure, I realize I ought to use MPEG or xVid and not QT (oh the horror

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Anyway here is the deal. I can get my videos made. I can export them into large .AVI files of 700MB to 1500 MB (I also make live action vids too).

When I try to encode these I always run into problems. A while ago I was advised on this board not to use Premiere's own encoding which is fine since I can't get it to work right anyway. I was told to use VDubMod. This did not work because everytime I tried to open the file I would get errors. I tried some other programs like TMPGEnc, and Gordian KNot. They either would not open my large AVI or in the one case I was able to make a file, there was audio but no video.

Can someone please help me with this?

What programs should I use to encode?
What format should I use to Export my video from Premiere so that I may use an encoding program to make a MPEG or Xvid file of it?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:57 pm

Are you exporting DV AVIs? That's the only thing I can think of that would cause problems in VDubMod <i>and</i> TMPGEnc.

Try exporting with the HuffYUV codec and see if you still get those problems.

Chow_the_cow · Post by **Chow_the_cow** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:02 pm

I'm no genius at encoding but it might help if you stated what it says on the error messages. I haven't had many problems with Virtual dub and this GUIDE can probably help u do anything u need to. You may want to re-install virtual dub or make a AVS file out of your avi (This is explained in that guide) and import that into Virtual Dub. Hope this helps to some extent.