Video Compression in Premiere

Herbert West · Post by **Herbert West** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:28 am

Export your video from Premiere with HUFFYUV and then compress it with VirtualbDub to XVid/Divx, or whatever you prefer.

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:35 am

ok, thats cool, but not exactly what i meant.. i meant i have an .avi file and i need to convert it so i can use it in premiere.. it crashes when i just import it.. what do i need to compress it with?(like picvid,huffy, etc)

Herbert West · Post by **Herbert West** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:43 am

If you have enough hd-space use HUFFYUV, otherwise MJPEG with maximum quality.
Best thing is to use DVD footage and follow the guide step by step then you'll have phantastic quality.

DaNuKa_SAN · Post by **DaNuKa_SAN** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:57 am

usually if its for a preview go with a lossless codec...
the quality comes out the same as with a YUV2 or RGB4 color codec but it gets coded faster so less time wasted^^

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:54 pm

well i cantuse huffYUv casue that takes like 13 gigs just with the movie converted and i only got a 40 gig HD and i only got like 10 gigs free lol... so use what thingy?? if i use picvid there is this really annoying writing on top and bottom

Unfound · Post by **Unfound** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:31 pm

lordsofchaos0000 wrote:well i cantuse huffYUv casue that takes like 13 gigs just with the movie converted and i only got a 40 gig HD and i only got like 10 gigs free lol... so use what thingy?? if i use picvid there is this really annoying writing on top and bottom

Unless its 10+ minutes, I highly doubt it'll take up 13 Gigabytes (Depending on how much motion there is). Export at the original resolution settings out of Premiere in HuffyUV and then recompress through V Dub Mod using Xvid or compress through Tsunami MPEG Encoder. Then, you can delete the HuffyUV file when you're done compressing.

Katsumi_AMVs · Post by **Katsumi_AMVs** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:57 pm

lordsofchaos0000 wrote:ok, thats cool, but not exactly what i meant.. i meant i have an .avi file and i need to convert it so i can use it in premiere.. it crashes when i just import it.. what do i need to compress it with?(like picvid,huffy, etc)

You have just the avi files? Becaused recompressed footage it's not a good source for AMVs , would be better rip again your DVDs and then use avisynth to edit your vids with vob files.

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:46 am

for one the anime is like 1hr and 10 mins.. so yea it is 13 gigs..

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:16 am

holy cow

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 9:12 am

Unfound wrote: Then, you can delete the HuffyUV file when you're done compressing.

Or you can burn it to cd, like sensible people do, just incase you need it again.