Encoding h.264 to a format comptabile with AdobePremiereCS3

[Jever]

I've tried finding solutions through the forums, but either it doesn't fit with what I'm trying to figure out or it gets way too complicated too fast and I'm pretty much a newbie when it comes to these things. but any help would be appreciated!

I have some h.264 files and I'm getting the impression that vdubmod and Adobe Premiere CS3 aren't compatible with h.264 (especially since they don't import at all). I wanted to convert them to .avi but judging from what I've been looking into, I'm guessing that's not the best way to go. So I just want to know what program(s) I should use and what should I encode it to?

[Kariudo]

you'll probably end up using avisynth to serve your video files into vdubmod where you re-encode with a lossless codec like huffyuv or lagarith

you'll need ffmpegsource for avisynth to do its thing.

if you don't have huffyuv and/or lagarith:
huffyuv
Lagarith

[Kionon]

AVS

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DirectShowSourc(C:/address/for/your/h264files.mp4)
Filter(goeshere)

[mirkosp]

AVS

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DirectShowSource(C:/address/for/your/h264files.mp4)
Filter(goeshere)

I'd say that using ffmpegsource instead of directshowsource would be better.
To further info for the ffmpegsource and the download, go here.

[Kionon]

AVS

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DirectShowSource(C:/address/for/your/h264files.mp4)
Filter(goeshere)

I'd say that using ffmpegsource instead of directshowsource would be better.
To further info for the ffmpegsource and the download, go here.

Never been an issue for me.

[mirkosp]

Well, directshowsource tends to have that issue with the frame order... that's why I prefer the ffmpegsource. But if the directshowsource works great for you, than no problem with that.

[Jever]

Thanks for all the help, but I'm completely new to the AviSynth script writing. If it makes any difference, I originally had the files in .mkv and then demuxed them into .mp4. When I try to open them via AviSynth in vdubmod with directshowsource, I get an "Unspecified error". Then I tried ffmpegsource (storing the .dll file in various places, and I'm still unsure of where to put it...) and I have no idea how to even use ffmpegsource as a command.

Still in the process of learning AviSynth, so bear with me. It all sounds easy, so maybe I'm missing something pretty basic here...

[mirkosp]

Well, the best I can do is telling you to read THE guide. It should solve most of your problems. Also, you can use mkv files without the necessity of making mp4 from them. Both directshowsource and ffmpegsource will work fine.
As where to put the ffmpegsource, the path should be:

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C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins

Hope this helps.

[Corran]

Donald Graft has been working on an AVCSource filter. It works a lot like MPEG2Source.

First you have to extract the video stream. You can do this with a program like mplayer with the following command:

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mplayer.exe -dumpvideo -dumpfile D:\Outfile.264 D:\test.mp4

Then you index the .264 file using DGAVCIndex just like you would with DGIndex to create a .dga project file.

Finally, you create an AVISynth script that looks something like this:

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LoadPlugin("DGAVCDecode.dll")
AVCSource("project.dga")

It won't work on every AVC stream currently out until libavcodec matures more, but it wouldn't hurt to try.