Premiere Pro 2 Creates Random Noise On Exported AVIs

[maikoherajin]

Hi all, I'm using Premiere Pro 2, and have a fairly severe problem. Having ripped the content out of a DVD, and made sure the resulting video was playable, I imported it into Premiere, and made a short clip to test it out. When I exported the movie to huffyuv, however, the resulting movie had strange noise in it. Usually random lines of color at the top of the video for one frame, occuring randomly every 5 seconds or so.

This random noise seemed to happen in a different fashion no matter what input / output format I chose for the AVIs. Setting the output to lagrith resulted in more solid color bands, and setting it to Xvid caused... a condition I could only describe as the video "having no keyframes." You could still see the video, but everything was grey and embossed looking. The only time I got a clean export was when I exported the video with no compression at all, which simply won't do.

This seemed to happen regardless of the settings I used, and regardless of the size / codec used to encode the original clip. Attatched is an example of the problem I'm seeing.

Thank you very much!

[Guiboche]

Hey there,

Unfortunately, there's no way to get around this. It's a hit and miss with your export.

If anything, I have found that "Recompress" when you export seams to help.

But for Huffy and Premiere, your export might always be corrupted (I believe it's a memory issue, but I can't be sure).

Export to uncompressed AVI, then, using VirutalDub (or any other tool of your choise) compress back to Huffy for your final stored master.

[maikoherajin]

It seems amazing to me that a program out for more than a year that costs $900 and has 'pro' in its name can be so... amateur when it comes to this. <shakes head>

[Guiboche]

Well it's not the fault of the program, but the fault of the codec. Huffy is known to have compatibility issues.....

[ozymango]

Frankly, I'm curious -- why are you ripping a DVD, editing it in Premiere, and then re-encoding (?) to huffy? Seems like kind of a complex process in order to get to ... ... is there an end-goal here that requires an mpeg to avi conversion? There might be ... actually I'm sure there must be better/easier tools to get what you want!

I love Premiere but I just use it for DV editing for DVD end-products, so that's where I'm coming from.

[maikoherajin]

Well it's not the fault of the program, but the fault of the codec. Huffy is known to have compatibility issues.....

Funny, considering every other program I've ever used to encode to that (including, if I recall correctly, Premiere 6.5) was able to do it without this issue.

[maikoherajin]

Frankly, I'm curious -- why are you ripping a DVD, editing it in Premiere, and then re-encoding (?) to huffy?

Fan videos! (: Well, that's what this project is anyway. The lagrith version is primarily for archiving the final version, and as an intermediary for encoding to other formats.

[Guiboche]

Well you can always export it to an uncompressed AVI from Premiere, then re-encode that to Huffy with VirtualDub.

[maikoherajin]

Well you can always export it to an uncompressed AVI from Premiere, then re-encode that to Huffy with VirtualDub.

Indeed, I ended up using debugmode to do just that.