Premiere (6.5) and MainConcept Standalone (v1.4.1) - How??!?

[jdmba]

Greets,

I am stumped - plain and simple.

Can someone out there in helper land PLEASE let me know how I can use the vastly improved MainConcept MPEG Encoder (v1.4.1) to encode a Premiere (v6.5) project now that the encoder is NOT integrated into Premiere (v6.5)?

I have a fully edited project saved as a PRJ, but am stuck. Since 1.4.1 is NOT integrated, Export-> is not an option.

HELP!!?!?!?

Thanks!

[willy_annand]

Export the movie as an AVI, if you don't have enough free space, use the Huffy codec as it is lossless.

Alternately you could frameserve the output from Premiere to the much better MPEG encoder called TMPGEnc.

I have both MainConcept and TMPGEnc and have tested them side by side. TMPGEnc is slower, but the output is much better, sharper and no artifacting.

[dcsos]

Export the movie as an AVI, if you don't have enough free space, use the Huffy codec as it is lossless.

Absolutely and I think he meant to say as an UNCOMPRESSED avi, if you don't have enough space for uncompressed, use HUFFY

[jdmba]

Thanks for the tips, but even huffy will fill the maximum AVI size of 4GB with only 10 minutes. I wound up with 1/2 the video which means I can't use TMP or anything else, because I can't make a full AVI.

Any other ideas?

[willy_annand]

The 4GB file size is only a FAT32 limitation. If you have NTSF, there is no such limitation.

Just looked in my capture folder at my current project, the Huffy encoded AVI is 31.2GB in size and is a 98 minute clip.

[jdmba]

Well then I guess I am stuck - thanks all!

[dcsos]

Just make big chunks of the files you can assemble later on the time line.
If you're worried, you can make the cut points at the end of a scene

IE: limit your renders to 3.99 gig..I do it like this on WIN 98

[racer-x]

No, No, No, a 1000 times NO!

Download this frameserver:
http://www.debugmode.com/pluginpac/frameserver.php

You can use it with Premiere, Vegas an Ulead Media Studio Pro. I use it with Premiere 6.5 and Main Concept Encoder v1.4 and it works great. Just remember to leave Premiere runing in full screen when frameserving.

Have fun.

[willy_annand]

Export the movie as an AVI, if you don't have enough free space, use the Huffy codec as it is lossless.

Absolutely and I think he meant to say as an UNCOMPRESSED avi, if you don't have enough space for uncompressed, use HUFFY

Premiere's default AVI export is in DV format.

[willy_annand]

If it is in the Video Capture that you are worried about the 4GB limit, give AVI_IO a try, it automatically splits the files into 2GB or 4GB.

With TMPGEnc, there is an Environmental setting to "Open Sequence Files As A Movie" select that and then you can simply load part one into TMPGEnc and it will load all the other parts.

[jdmba]

Thank you so much for all your replies ... please allow me to elaborate.

I taped a cartoon which my wife wrote, and captured it in 6 parts. It has been edited in Premiere down to a proper Project, but I am now stuck. I have no desire or interest in Windows XP and even if I ran Windows XP, I would run it in FAT32, so I cannot have more than the 4.xGB file size

When I exported the file into Huffy AVI, the 4.xGB was about 5 minutes, so exporting it will not be the solution. I have the edited file (including overlaying the final credit audio with the theme song to remove the 'up next'), so recapturing is not in the cards either.

Grrrr.

[willy_annand]

Thank you so much for all your replies ... please allow me to elaborate.

I taped a cartoon which my wife wrote, and captured it in 6 parts. It has been edited in Premiere down to a proper Project, but I am now stuck. I have no desire or interest in Windows XP and even if I ran Windows XP, I would run it in FAT32, so I cannot have more than the 4.xGB file size

When I exported the file into Huffy AVI, the 4.xGB was about 5 minutes, so exporting it will not be the solution. I have the edited file (including overlaying the final credit audio with the theme song to remove the 'up next'), so recapturing is not in the cards either.

Grrrr.

No interest in WinXP and wanting to stay with FAT32.

Then my friend you can forget about video editing.
You are severely limiting yourself.

Since moving to WinXP, I have had fewer problems than I have ever experienced since I came to the Windows platform from a MAC back in 1996. WinXP is the stablest and fastest OS I have used. And I started with Unix on a mainframe back in '73.

Do yourself a favour and pull yourself into this millenium with WinXP.
Your video editing wil be alot more painless. Your computing in general will improve as well.

[proxyx99]

I think you have been provided with all possible solutions for your problem. All you need to do is pick one. Win XP is the only way to go, don't be afraid of it. You are one of the few left that sticks to older Win.
It's been on the market long enough and passed the test. You can leave your bunker now. War is long over.

[Dragonsf]

...
Since moving to WinXP, I have had fewer problems than I have ever experienced since I came to the Windows platform from a MAC back in 1996. WinXP is the stablest and fastest OS I have used. And I started with Unix on a mainframe back in '73.

Do yourself a favour and pull yourself into this millenium with WinXP.
Your video editing wil be alot more painless. Your computing in general will improve as well.

What mainframe was that?I always thought UNIX was developed for DEC Mini Computers?At 73 mainframes used OS which were lightyears away from UNIX (usability).We used sort of MVS (or DbOS).Every machine had it's own OS.

[willy_annand]

It was the computer at the Unniversity of Toronto campus.

I forget the actual OS (at 50, the mind is already going ), but it was close to Unix in it's implimentation.

[racer-x]

Hey jdmba,

What the hell is wrong with you? Did you even read my post? I gave you the answer to your problem.

Actualy there are 2 answers:

1) Premiere v6.5 already comes with a built-in MainConcept encoder that you can use to export your timeline to Mpeg-2.

2) Use the Frameserver that I gave you the link to. You can frameserve your project out of the Premiere Timeline into the MainConcept v1.4 standalone encoder that you said you had.

Either method will work with Windows 98. Although you will be better off with XP. You can also Dual-boot 98 and XP like I do.

Good Luck.