splitting avi with adobe premier

[xPunkOff]

i was using adobe premier to split and extract an avi, following the step by step instructions on here. 5 hours later when the file was actually split (with just the first half done, so i still had another section to go after) i went to preview it before i converted it to mpeg so i could make animated menus using ulead dvd movie factory, but their was no sound captured at all on the movie! so i went back and viewed the steps i went through and with the timeline i made i did a preview on there like i did last night. when i viewed it on the video 1a section it played fine, audio and video all great. when i tried to view audio 1 their was no sound whatsoever. now how could the sound be playing in the video section but not the audio? on the same topic i have a couple more questions. still in avi format since i hadn't converted yet, after splitting the movie in half the first section ended up being 4 gigs when the actually movie itself is only 725 megs, how is that possible? and how do i change that so that its only gonna be half the size of the movie (approximately anyways since the first section is gonna be 45 minutes and the second will be 60)? also 5 hours is soooooo long to split one movie, i have a fast computer and all so its not like its slowing down because i have an old computer since i don't. is their a way to speed up how fast it splits?

[markums2k]

Sorry, not familiar with the guide here, but I am very familiar with Premiere. You mention that you don't understand how 45 minutes of video could take up 4 gigs. That's par for the course if you're working with un-compressed video. All the video I work with in Premiere is saved as Pinnacle DV (which is still AVI), and 1 hour of video usually translates to over 10 gigs. Once you encode to VCD compliant MPEG, your file sizes should drop into the 650/700MB range... if you do it right.

As far as the "split" process, again, I'm not sure how it works. I capture all my own video from DV or composite sources, so I just use the razor tool. No rendering required.

If you bring files into Premiere that did not originate there, it usually has to render the entire thing to fit the project's frame rate... even if the frame rates match. So, your 5 hour render times aren't too uncommon either. You may want to find another method of splitting video files if you're unhappy with all the waiting.

You could try encoding the entire movie, then splitting the MPEG file with a different program.