Adobe Premiere-Multiple Clip Creation Question

[aussteve]

I am using adobe premiere 6.0 and am attempting the following-I have a single long block of video and have managed, with the help of this forum, to add a fade in from black and a fade out to black effect. I then save this in premiere as a project. When I open Ulead Movie Factory and import this project as a video, prior to burning, it is split into a large number of clips which are out of any order.
I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to advise me why this is so, and if it may be simplified into one simple clip. My whole purpose was to simply take this lump of video, fade it in and out and then burn it, however I am finding it obviously more complicated than this!
Any advice is gratefully appreciated
Thanks in anticipation

[afish]

I'm not familiar with Ulead Movie Factory but what are you importing. If I take you literally it sounds like you are trying to import the project. Do you mean the Premiere file ? Have you rendered the project first? Need more info! Some authoring programs accept .avi files and transcode them before burning. Some dont accept avi, only mpeg2(muxed or not muxed) so they dont need transcoding. What does Movie Factory accept?

By the way, judging by your user name are you a fellow Oz man

[aussteve]

My thanks to afish for your reply. And yes, fellow oz man from the deep south. You definitely get the better deal with climate!
I am venturing into this area and am an extreme video newbie so your patience is gratefully appreciated. I thought I would just roughly go through what I am attempting and when you stop laughing perhaps you can advise me.
I started with a chunk of video imported into premiere 6, added a few small transitions, and attempted to preview it, which results in premiere wanting to save the file. It does a preview build and works fine. After this I hit save and exit the program, and a look in explorer shows two sets of files in adobe, one is a small 16 kb Project file, and the other is a folder containing 2 clips, one 12 meg and one 6 meg respectively. These two clips combined form my little test project, their properties state they are video files, 720x576 25 fps, so I take that to be dvd video, and I also take it that premiere has rendered them.
I still wonder why the program splits my original file into 2 clips? Anyway, ulead just states "Import
video" so i steered it to these 2 clips, highlighted them, and they are loaded into ulead. This can then be burned ok. Incidentally I used a trial of ulead (dvd movie studio) because the packaging said it was idiot proof. They were wrong.............
At any rate, my main real difficulty is, is that if this little clip, all of 60 odd seconds of video, is divided into 2 already, how am I going to go about dealing with 40 minutes of video? It looks like it will split into myriad clips in random order and be very difficult indeed to sort out.
Your thoughts would be appreciated

[TOMMO]

I can see wherte the confusion is coming from.

In order to preview what is on the timeline in Premiere, the program makes a rough render of the video files. In this case Premiere has assumed that it needs to make two files which playback seamlessly enough to foll a person into thinking it has made one video file. This approach is fair enough especially if you want to view the files before rendering the proper movie.

What you need to do is .......

With your timeline complete with transitions etc, go to FILE > EXPORT MOVIE and make your selection from the list of options. To keep it very simple, if the shots were originally from my DV camera I would select DV AVI at the dimensions you stated (720x576 at 25 FPS). Name it and click OK or SAVE. It will now render your video as one complete with transitions. I think you can now import this into Ulead to produce your DVD. I believe the program takes care of encoding to MPEG2 for you etc.

For Info>

Premier 6.5 and Premiere Pro both have built in MPEG encoders so you can export direct from the timeline and DVD compatable MPEG. Saves a bit of time and the results are very good.

Or you can use programs like TMPEnc to encode to MPEG for you.

However >

For the sake of easy progress keep it simple and use what you have at the moment.

Have fun, when you have sussed it you will wonder what the problem ever was. Then there will be a Aussie Speilberg.

[aussteve]

My thanks to you Tommo for your informative reply. You have saved me a considerable sum in tranquilizers
I wonder if Spielberg has actually tried to use Premiere? Who knows.....
Regards
Steve