mkv, script, and premiere - noob ?

T0bloodyT0care · Post by **T0bloodyT0care** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:54 am

I'm soo confused....but thats what I get for being lazy and not wanting to read much I guess...

anyway I'm trying to get an mkv video onto premiere...I got all the wolfs rain and want to do and amv...so...I downloaded avisynth...I downloaded the plugin for premiere...and I made a script that looks like this:

DirectShowSource("C:\wolfsrain\Wolfsrain01.mkv")

but when I try and open the thing it sais:

DirectShowSource: could not open as video or audio.
blah blah blah
no combination of filters could be found to render the stream
audio retuned:DirectShowSource: timeout waiting for graph to start
blah blah blah

why why oh why?

can anyone help me with this insanity...it would be greatly appreciated =)

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:51 am

kill the audio ( killaudio() )

T0bloodyT0care · Post by **T0bloodyT0care** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:33 pm

thanks....but now that I have this

DirectShowSource("C:\wolfsrain\Wolfsrain01.mkv")
KillAudio()

it sais: the same thing

???

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:13 pm

You don't play the videos in Windows Media Player, do you? That error only occurs when no DirectShow decoders or splitters can be found. DirectShowSource only works if you can play the video using DirectShow-based players (like WMP, Media Player Classic, etc.).

Up In Flamez · Post by **Up In Flamez** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:29 am

why not just open it in virtualdubmod and use the "Direct Stream Copy" and make an avi instead of trying to edit the mkv directly

T0bloodyT0care · Post by **T0bloodyT0care** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:54 am

oh yay....I was trying to do that and the outcome would be like a file that was 30gb in size...and I need 30 of these....but of course (duh) i didn't know about the direct stream thingy....thanks a bunch =)

T0bloodyT0care · Post by **T0bloodyT0care** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:06 am

hmm...I gots another question =)

maybe this should go into the adobe forum but since i'm here....I got the file converted to an avi using virtualdub and disabled the audion and subtiles because there was no need for them...anywho it works in my media players but when i load it into adobe premiere it is only a black screen with a little static here and there...

any suggestions...sorry for being unable to find out my self

T0bloodyT0care · Post by **T0bloodyT0care** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:09 am

ahh...I got it, I did an avisource avs script for it...now it works ...for now =)

thanks to those who helped