*sigh* Premiere, why hast thou forsaken me...

[AbsoluteDestiny]

I'm afraid I'm at a loss.

I cant see any reason why that shouldnt work - especially if it works without the decomb stuff.

I dont have any trouble using decomb avs files in premiere - I'm not sure I know how I can help, sorry.

[RyanGlazner]

Ah well. Thanks for trying, anyway.

[RyanGlazner]

Okay, I have given up on AviSynth. I'm trying VirtualDub to deinterlace from the AVS file, but no matter what codec I use, VirtualDub's preview feature always estimates the end file size around 40 gig! Am I doing something wrong, or is this normal? I've tried using various and sundry codecs, with the same result or larger. Do I just not have a good codec? Most of my tests have been with Huffyuv and DivX. Does anyone know which codec has the absolute best compression? I'm very sorry if this has been discussed. I looked through the forums and guides for an answer, and ErMac's guide told me a lot about the codecs, but not which would give the smallest file size.

[AbsoluteDestiny]

Just deinterlace the stuff after you've edited the video, that's what the guide suggests.

There's not a great deal of use making an avi file for editing with when you can use the vobs - you'll just add another lossy compression.

If the avisynth vobs work interlaced in premiere then edit it interlaced and export interlaced and use virtualdub or tmpeg's IVTC to get rid of the interlacing later.

[RyanGlazner]

I'll still have to use a codec for compression/deinterlacing after i've edited it... so the "which codec" question still stands.

[AbsoluteDestiny]

HuffYUV to export (it's lossless compressino so you keep the quality)

then either divx or mpeg1 for your final distro file.

[RyanGlazner]

Ah, okay. Thanks for all your help!