Common Compression Problem from Adobe Premiere?

[xexyzl]

I've done some searches in this section and it seems I'm not the only one who has had this problem. Let me outline it for you:

So, I'm following VicBond's DVD Footage guide, right? I get my footage, import into Premiere Pro v.7 and mess around for 6 weeks, then export it as per instructions. I look back in the guide to distribution, and it says download TMPGEnc and put in such and such settings. I follow it to a T, hit start, and wait 20 minutes. It dings when finished and I happily go to my C drive to the video file. That's odd, its only 20 megs, I thought it would be much larger. I open it up, and what's there? 5 and a half minutes of audio, with a nice black screen.

I try this several times, and I also attempted it with my friends first AMV he created (we formed a studio and he handed his over to me since he doesn't have internet), and it didn't work either. I finally said "screwit" and downloaded MediaCoder and tried to export an MPEG2 from there. No go, doesn't encode correctly. I try it on various other formats, and it ends up similarly. My only possible theory is that Adobe Premiere does a crappy job of exporting workable AVI footage, but thats something of a wild guess.

The only compressed copy I have is from a fit of desperation when I threw it into Windows Movie Maker and exported at the highest setting.

Sorry for not doing some more research, I probably could have found an answer with a little digging.

Some Notes:

Adobe Premiere Pro v.7
TMPGEnc 2.5 Trial
Huffyuv Format AVI
Windows XP Media Center

[Scintilla]

So, I'm following VicBond's DVD Footage guide, right?

That's your first problem. <a href="/guides/avtech">R</a><a href="/guides/avtech">EADFAG</a> instead.

I get my footage, import into Premiere Pro v.7

Strike two. <b>Adobe Premiere Pro has never made it past version (CS)3,</b> people. I'm going to assume you mean the original Premiere Pro, version 1.0.

I'm going to assume you exported from Premiere Pro using HuffYUV, since you mentioned it in your software list. Did you follow <a href="/guides/avtech/premiereproexport.html">these guidelines</a> for how to properly set your export settings?

[xexyzl]

Alright thanks for your advice. I was able to correctly export it from Premiere Pro v 7.0
And I was able to encode it into mpeg-2 format. However, I'm afraid I made one to many mistakes a little farther back, but at least I know now what to look out for on future projects.

Thanks again for your help, I should have this first video up sometime soon so keep an eye out for it in announcements.


P.S. I'll bet VicBond007 isn't very happy

P.S.S. Yes I know I was wrong, Premiere Pro was CS1, but I honestly thought from the about screen that it was v 7.0