Export problem / Premiere Pro

[ramin]

I just bought Premiere Pro 1.5 and have some codec-related difficulties with exporting videos in XviD/DivX/3vix/QT/.. only with DV i am able to export videos. I have K-Lite Code Package 2.27 installed. Does anyone have the sme problem as well... or maybe someone out there can help me out? I want to export my videos in XviD mostly.

thnx in advance

[dcsos]

YOU GOTTA SELECT EXPORT Microsoft AVI not (Microsoft DV AVI) then on the VIDEO SETTING sub page (select on left of EXPORT MENU) you pull down from MICROSOFT VIDEO1 -a hideous codec- to your XVID

[ramin]

ops...guess i'm sleepy and forgot to write the PROBLEM!... ok, the problem:
when I export my movies in XviD/QT/DivX/... the produced video is not viewable -- the image is terrible, it's either jumpy, blury or it won't show at all, and when i change some settings it prompts my players to shut down. But when I export to DV there's no problem.

[dcsos]

I agree PREMIERE PRO cannot do these formats the results suck universally- I thought 1.5 fixes this but Isee you had simalar probs, because PREM PRO 's output is unusable..blurry, field errors etc
I use VEGAS and PREMIERE 6.0 output fine!

[ropdoh]

Its not that easy to get premiere pro two handle the 2-pass options for all these codecs.

I'd suggest frame-serving from Premiere Pro to VirtualDub, and sorting out your encoding options there.

Debugmode has a freeware frameserver for Premiere Pro:
http://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/

[ramin]

well...if it's a popular bug isn't Adobe going to do something about it? I mean the only way I found is to use output for MPEG2 or WMV and then convert it back to XviD

Premiere-problems aside, I have a question about other softwares (e.g. Vegas). I need a software which does the same job as premiere (joining, cutting, fading in/out, timeline,.. ) plus having a lot of visual effects, do u know any?

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thanx ropdoh, but i don't know anything about frameservers, maybe u could tell me what does it do generally

[ropdoh]

Frameserving creates a "fake" uncompressed avi file which other programs can read in (Such as virtualdub), so instead of exporting an uncompressed file from premiere (which will take up a HUGE amount of space), loading that into virtualdub and creating your xvid / divx / whatever

you use a framesever, which does exactly the same, but doesn't actually create the HUGE uncompressed file. It basically sits in between two programs (Premiere and Virtualdub for example) and passes uncompressed video data between them as if there was the uncompressed avi file on your hard disk.

Hope that doesn't sound too confusing, they're actually really easy to use.