AVS File won't open

Ashton · Post by **Ashton** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 11:37 am

FurryCurry - Don't be so quick to tell him to throw everything in VDub, if you do as much filtering and such as you can with AVS you can save yourself a lot of compressability and stuff by 1) not doing color space conversions, and 2) taking advantage of some of the wonderful filtering availible from AVS filters.

NetJunior · Post by **NetJunior** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 3:20 pm

First off, I'm on Win2K, I've got HuffYuv 2.1.1 and I've had all the settings correctly placed. Apparently however, Adobe Premiere quits with about 1000 frames remaining. No error message. No nothing. And since it always leaves a nice ~2gig file, I've always figured I had set to "Close when finished" on accident or something. But, I decided to watch it export today, no I wasn't extremely bored, just pissed. And I watched it close. So I figure this is what its been doing all along, and this creates an unreadable file to start with. Any suggestions?

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 7:32 pm

the 2 gig file size limit is an issue with FAT32 formatted hard drives.

Windows 2000 or XP or anything you still need an NTFS drive to write big files.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 10:41 pm

You could export in two parts and use avs to re-combine them in Vdub, along with adding the audio.

NetJunior · Post by **NetJunior** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 1:19 am

I'm exporting to an NTFS drive, so I don't see why it would shut down at the 2 gig mark... Is there some kind of option somewhere that can restrict file sizes even for Win2000?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 3:00 am

Bah ! :O

The 2GB limit is a AVI limitation.

FAT32 has a 4GB file size limitation.

~klinky

NetJunior · Post by **NetJunior** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 11:13 am

Ah, well at least that clears it up. Thanks Klinky!

NetJunior · Post by **NetJunior** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 12:10 pm

Ok, I've split the file, and during the second segment, it still does the same thing. Quits. Now, I'm going to have to try and pinpoint the exact frame it's quitting on. But, is there any effect, or file type that can crash premier while exporting?

gypsy · Post by **gypsy** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 8:00 am

I had a similar problem with my first video.

I never solved the problem but I found a way around it.

Look at your timeline next time you export. If premiere crashes at a certain point (it closes premiere by itself) open up and change you work area to export just that part of the timeline. If it crashes again you know where the problem lies in your timeline.

You can try to export your audio apart from your video and compress them seperately later.

If it's still crashing you could try what helped me. Change your render settings to exactly match your export settings. Also change your rendering path to the same drive as your exporting to. Render that part of the timline and then export the entire thing. Cause your timeline is rendered with the same settings as your export settings it'll to a "direct stream copy" for that part and not "compress" it.

You just basically got to debug it one step at a time. Look ate every option. I would look at the problems in this order.

a) Export video only
b) Export to different codec than huffyuv like mjpeg @ 100%. (If huffy doesn't work)
c) Make sure the exported file can play in mplayer2
d) Make sure AVS works (make a avs file with any other video file o drive)
e) Double check avs file for spelling mistakes or Copy and paste the path from windows explorer.

The problem is most likely that the AVI file isn't "closed" and is unreadable.

Well... That's my 2c

Hope it helps.

Cheers vir eers
Gypsy
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ecamac01 · Post by **ecamac01** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 2:23 pm

the above part will be the best bet especially if all your work is not coming from DVD footage, ou asked earlier what can crash Premiere...in my experience its using multiple file codecs, like xvid mpeg4, or divx along with either huffyuv encoded avi's or with avs scripts...also premiere crashes when you have too many scripts loaded...

i.e. if your making a ghost in the shell from fansubs and you have footage in xvid and footage in divx, premiere crashes where the 2 frames meet...but this is usually during editing and not as prevelant during exporting...

you can go further and try working with 4 seperate projects, one for each minute...that has worked for me when i use many scripts...

good luck...