Problem with Premiere 5.5... Help needed

Icarus · Post by **Icarus** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 1:24 am

Hi people! I'm rather new to this community and anime video editing as a whole so please bear with me a little...

I tried to edit VOB files directly using Premiere as instructed by Ermac on his guide. I followed all his procedures strictly but still ended up with failure. I installed all the necessary files such as Avisynth Beta 6, MPEG2DEC.DLL, and HuffYUV V2.1.1. But when I try to open the .avs file, all I get is a black screen on the monitor/clip window. I've tried changing the Frame Size to 720X480 as suggested on the guide but that didn't seem to work, either.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this problem?

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 1:49 am

It's bad mojo from pirating software.

(How do I know? Adobe never produced a version 5.5 of Premiere. Pirates hacked, renumbered and redistributed it)
http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr ... lny.cv.net

Icarus · Post by **Icarus** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 2:08 am

dokidoki wrote:It's bad mojo from pirating software.

(How do I know? Adobe never produced a version 5.5 of Premiere. Pirates hacked, renumbered and redistributed it)
http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr ... lny.cv.net

Ahh. You got me there. But seriously, how many of you actually spent $504 on the software itself? Is getting the original version really going to solve this problem?

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 2:45 am

[raises hand]

I have a legitimate version of Premiere 5.1 and 6.0. And I never have any problems with them.

I can't guarentee it'll fix your problem. But I also ain't gonna help you fix the problem if you pirated the software.

I'm tired of everyone always assuming people pirate Premiere. I payed money for it, I know many people who payed money for it, and believe it or not some people use other, cheaper editing programs instead of pirating software. For pete's sake you can probably get your hands on Windows Movie Maker and use that, for free!

But instead you decided to pirate software, and HACKed software at that. No, no, bad user. Shame!

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 3:53 am

Is getting the original version really going to solve this problem?

You'd know if you had the original version to begin with

~klinky

Icarus · Post by **Icarus** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 10:52 am

*sigh.

Oh well. Guess I'll have to do that then.
Found this deal at Ebay: Premiere 6.1 for $175.
sounds almost too good to be true. You guys think its a wise decision to get that?

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 11:02 am

It would be wise... owning the software (and the manual) is a good thing indeed.

However, it might not solve your problem (but it might help).

I find that a lot of people don't resize the window enough when doing the avisynth thing. To really make sure it works do this:

make sure you project settings AND your clip settings are Square Pixels in the Pixel Aspect Ratio selectors.

Then double click the clip to open it

hold down SHIFT (to maintain aspect)

and drag your window out larger than just 720x480. The black box inside will stay at 720x480. When you let go of the mouse it should be there - sometimes just extending it to 720x480 doesnt make it show up for me.

Also, make sure the source clip is working correctly by choosing properties in premiere - if it give you the right length and resolution then it should be fine.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 1:54 pm

Hey, I pirated Premiere. But maybe around Christmas time, I'll look on eBay and ask my dad to get me 6.0 or 6.5, as the version of Premiere that I downloaded isn't screwey, it's stable, but I feel safer buying the program and not using a pirated copy.

Mask of Destiny · Post by **Mask of Destiny** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 7:11 pm

I too have a legitimate copy of Premiere. I got a really good deal on it though. My copy of v6. came bundled with my ADS Pyro DV. It even came with the printed manual. I got it all for around $200.

Do you have an ATI card by any chance? Some of their latest drivers include screwy MPEG2 codecs that are incompatible with premiere and those third party drivers won't install over ATI's drivers.

Icarus · Post by **Icarus** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 8:02 pm

Mask of Destiny wrote:I too have a legitimate copy of Premiere. I got a really good deal on it though. My copy of v6. came bundled with my ADS Pyro DV. It even came with the printed manual. I got it all for around $200.

Do you have an ATI card by any chance? Some of their latest drivers include screwy MPEG2 codecs that are incompatible with premiere and those third party drivers won't install over ATI's drivers.

Yeah. As a matter of fact, I own an ATI Radeon 8500 64mb vid. card with the latest catalyst drivers.

I guess I'll just have the rip and convert the whole thing to AVI format, in that case.