Premiere and MP3 output

[gagnonf]

I'm trying to produce a compressed movie from a DV source that I edited with Premiere 6.02. The target video CODEC is DIVX and the audio is MP3.

I have no problems encoding to DIVX, however, MP3 does not appear as a Premiere CODEC. I'm ready to buy any such codec plugin for Premiere, but from where???

Thanks!

FG

[gagnonf]

No answers??? Does that mean there are none?

If I wanted to write one myself, where would I find the tech info for that? (I've been a tech guy for the last 15 years, so I'm not effraid of writing a bit of C, but I need the basic tech info on Premiere)

Thanks!

FG

[BJ_M]

i would think installing this and following dir included - you would then have mp3 as export option ...
http://members.telocity.com/~linuxgod/ra-codec12.zip

[GenkaNT]

BJ_M, gagnonf

With all due respect, Premier will never see MP3 encoder on it's own. Try finding 3-rd party Plug-In or encoder that does audio out in mp3 format.

[gagnonf]

Thanke GenkaNT,

THat's exactly what I'm trying to find: a third party CODEC. But where???

FG

[gagnonf]

BJ_M, thanks for the suggestion.

What you're proposing is the Radium MP3 CODEC, a more or less legal version of the AudioActive version (www.audioactive.com) and.......

does not work with Premiere!!!!

Any other suggestion?

[BJ_M]

ok sorry .. i wasnt sure , never wanted to make a mp3 anyway ..

[gagnonf]

BJ_M, making the audio track an MP3 reduces significantly the space the vid takes on disk. I'm trying to archive some Hi8 and VHS tapes, and that takes a huge amount of space. Anything I can save is worth it...

THe problem is that despites the CODEC shows up as installed on the system, it does not show as a compression option for audio in Premiere (when you do a Movie Export).

Why is that so???

[BJ_M]

compress the audio to mpeg 1 then is all i can suggest or use another program to save/edit and render your hi8 and tapes captures ..

[gagnonf]

Anybody has any idea why the MP3 codec does not appear for encoding using Premiere, while it does appear while using Virtual Dub???