[Problem]X264 and Premiere Pro CS4, no video, only sound?

[hdnine]

Hey everyone,

I am having a problem that is driving me crazy. I have material i need to edit with crossfades and all that so i have turned to Premiere Pro CS4 as i did a couple of years ago. Now, much later i can't remember the correct settings to get high quality H264 output?

I installed the latest x264vfw and used the default settings, but i get no image, just sound. So i turned over to Virtualdub and tried it there and i have no problems at all -- so what's wrong with Premiere? I would do everything in Virtualdub or Avidemux but i really need those crossfades. Now i have tried almost every setting imaginable in CS4 to get picture without luck so has anyone else been in a similar position?

The clip is 1920x1080p, 24fps, 192 kbps audio coded in Fraps codec.

Thanks,
Krister

[Baldrick]

You could try use Debugmode FrameServer and frameserve to virtualdub, etc and encode.

[hdnine]

Thanks Baldrick but to be honest i don't understand how frameserving works. I downloaded and installed the program, started the frame serve as i exported the clip. Frameserver started.

I then opened the same file in Virtualdub and selected Start frameserver. A small dialog window appeared and that's about it. I had an option to stop serving at either end but how does this work anyway?

[hdnine]

Right... i sort of got it to work with Virtualdub but the quality after i compress looks really gray and dull. Also, the video is a bit choppy. When i frameserve into Virtualdub the initial video looks crisp and clear however.

It's strange that Premiere has such poor export with bad quality. I have tried every single setting there is and every codec at my disposal. I have tried uncompressed... nothing works, everything looks like crap to be honest. =(