Premier Crashing when opening multiple avs scripts

[fiathriel!]

With VFAPI I typically encode just one DVD per script. And also I'm using older versions of Premiere which seem to be more stable than the newer from what I hear.

But making clips is the best choice. Find the scenes you know you are going to use and created a Lag or Huff file. Might be about 10-20mb + for a few seconds, but they should load with no problem. Then as you edit, you can cut more clips as you find necessary.

I don't do it because I never know what I'm going to use for my clips until I'm actually working.

I'm a bit like that, I like to keep the options open, scripting seemed like the most logical idea for the way I work and considering how many episodes I'd like to keep in full on the hard drive. So far the VFAPI seems to be kind of workable. When I get the errors I can at least save the project, then close, then reopen. If I don't close and reopen all the clips on all the tracks are locked and I can move them, bizarre behaviour but not completely unworkable.

[Zarxrax]

I don't think vfapi actually gives you any advantage over just importing them straight into premiere...

[Krisqo]

I don't think vfapi actually gives you any advantage over just importing them straight into premiere...

I have found that it does for me.

Case and point. I edited "Stay With Me" using only AVS files and I kept having the damn program crash and even totally glitch the last few seconds of the video whenever I would use certain clips resulting in me having to re-do the project in an older version of Premiere. From there, when I turned on the scripts, the cuts from one source all glitched and were shown as 10 frames of black. After fixing that by making clips for said scenes, I was faced with Premiere crashing every time I tried to export. The cure was exporting the video 10 and 5 seconds at a time. Importing the clips back into Premiere and then exporting again.

Using the same sources, same scripts, same computer, same programs, but using VFAPI, I have never had said problem again.

[fiathriel!]

I don't think vfapi actually gives you any advantage over just importing them straight into premiere...

I have found that it does for me.

Case and point. I edited "Stay With Me" using only AVS files and I kept having the damn program crash and even totally glitch the last few seconds of the video whenever I would use certain clips resulting in me having to re-do the project in an older version of Premiere. From there, when I turned on the scripts, the cuts from one source all glitched and were shown as 10 frames of black. After fixing that by making clips for said scenes, I was faced with Premiere crashing every time I tried to export. The cure was exporting the video 10 and 5 seconds at a time. Importing the clips back into Premiere and then exporting again.

Using the same sources, same scripts, same computer, same programs, but using VFAPI, I have never had said problem again.

My actual clip I'm trying to do is only 15 seconds anyway, a few years ago I used to edit in Premiere 5 or 6 with no problems with avs at all . . . . the VFAPI is still not behaving properly, I think just resizing all the eps might be a good start, or taking the suggestion on the AMV org guides that says to make cruddy avi's of all your avi scripts, just to edit with and then do a final run with the uncompressed ones at the end (or something like that, I only skimmed it), seemed like a good idea.

[Autraya]

I don't remember the size of each episode but I fit it on a 400gb drive but it did take me a little bit of work to do so, I cut out intro's and credits to save space and used 640X480 (I think) yv12 on the lagarith .. and a few other things i cant remember

VFAPI plays up extreemely badly in premiere pro 1.5 for me, lagging during playback to the point that I only see the very first frame and making export renders take forever.
example:
Princess tutu vid with lagariths was taking 2 minutes to export an umcompressed file for 1 minute of timeline but the same video and portion of timeline took 43 minutes with VFAPI (I went off and watched an episode of stargate while i waited).
I only use it if i'm extremely desperate these days but each to their own *shrugs*

[Krisqo]

I guess.

But using cruddy AVS files should help since you are not processing the filters. Especially if you are using something like VMToon which is extremely slow.