Total NEWBE needs help!

[gNOMEintheRedHat]

OK,

I've got Premiere 6.0 and I have my video from DV cam layed out and edited the way I want. all files together total more than 16 gig!(~80min)

I want to save it to a MPEG2 file of less than 4gig and have high quality.

If I use Premiere's built in encoder It doesn't allow me to sellect the bit rate. Do I want to frame serve to CCE or TMPGenc? I haven't got a clue how to do this. I've got all the software, but HOW do I make Premiere "Serve" the frames?

Detailed instructions needed for this DUNCE!

Thanks,
gNOME

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[Baldrick]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/premiereavisynth.htm

[gNOMEintheRedHat]

OK, Thanks.

I've got the latest AVSynth (.92) and it looks a little different, but I think I've got it.

PROBLEM:
TMPGenc (2.0) Will not accept the Part.avs as an input file. (Unrecognised Format) so I sellected the AVIwrapper.
TMPGenc IS accepting the input now, BUT it is not accepting the audio....

I tried "Output a WAV file" and the WAV_out.wav file appears, but TMPGenc is not accepting it either.

I now know that I MUST upgrade...

DULE Celleron 366
128MB RAM
12gig system disk
19gig data disk

155 HOURS left and it is not getting any audio!

[RaleighNC]

Did you copy the dll to \system dir and merge the settings in the registry??

[Shabubu]

I've always had trouble frameserving from premiere. An easier method to encode to mpeg is to use BBMPEG (http://go.to/doom9 has it) and install it as a plugin (instructions are in the readme). If you want to use transitions you'll have to get the Panasonic encoder as I've never actually got them to work with BBMpeg

[gNOMEintheRedHat]

Thanks Shabubu,

I downloaded bbMPEG and started to compress to MPEG2 and went to bed, when I got up this morning I looked at the progress..... Time Left: About 4 days !!!!!!!!!

OK, the wife must be convinced that a new computer is needed!

[gNOMEintheRedHat]

Wooo Hoooo!

OK here is what I did.
After letting bbMPEG crunch on it for about 28 hours and still being told it will take 4 days to finish I said forget it.

I realised that I still had Uled Video Studio 4 that came with my Camcorder. I did not like the interface it used, so I'd forgotten about it.

BUT... It produces very decent MPEG1 files VERY Quickly on my 366x2 system.
It took about 4 hours to encode Enterprise Series premier(only 68min with the comercials cut out)
I made my VERY FIRST VCD using NERO 5.5.5.1 and it worked fine in all my computers......

My Toshiba 3109 woun't read CD-Rs though......
My need to pick up a APEX from Wal-Mart for $89

Thanks for the help.
LES