PREMEIRE PRO timeline:avi video looks bad but audio is ok

[GalacticoX4]

I'm new to editing so sorry if this is elementary.

Problem:
i have several random clips. When i combine them in a timeline sequence some files in the sequence play fine but others have perfect audio but the video is garbled static, snowy or just a black screen.

Info that may help:
1) in premeire pro there are two preview windows under "monitor". all the videos play perfect if played in the left (middle) window but poorly in the right (sequence 01) window.
All files play perfect in Windows Media player 9 and in Real player.

my system:
Pentium III 800E, geoforce 2 mx card, 512 mb ram, win xp pro all updates. tons of codecs installed. (i know it sucks i plan to upgrade soon)

Here is codec info on the clips that play wrong, retrieved using G-Spot 2.21.
1. all the videos are .avi video is "4CC: DX50/divx NameX50/divx, audio is MPEG-1 Layer 3. 480x288 sound is fine the video is black and has occasional snow and lines.

all other file types seem to work fine. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[video_guy]

Hey GalacticoX4,

I just helped another guy with a similar problem. Here's what I wrote:


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Adobe Premiere is kinda picky when it comes to editing. It only likes certain video formats to edit with. These are Uncompressed AVI or dv AVI. It has trouble editing mpeg and other AVI compressions. It looks like your computer is fine in todays standard so the jerkiness would probably not be caused by that. I have read somewhere that Premiere does not like DivX files when editing. So I would suggest comverting them using a program like virtualDub to Uncompressed AVI, which is a lot easier to work with. Also, Premiere has a thing called "Rendering". It is a little time consuming but what it does is render the video to the format that you can edit with. It can do this with many video formats. Try to do that (just press enter when you are using the Timeline). Wait until it is done and then see if the jerkiness stops; it probably will. Also, any time you add a transition or effect you will have to render it (it takes all the frames in that clip and adds the effect/transition to it). The reason the video looks okay in one screen and not the other is one is the Timeline screen - what you see when you are editing and dragging the marker along the track. The other is the Source monitor - it shows the raw footage, so its just like playing it in Windows Media Player (you haven't made any changes to it). Hope this helps and try editing the vdeo in a different format.