Adobe Premiere Pro exporting problem

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

alright, after I edited all of my video, and put in all of the music and everything, i exported it to a movie in Adobe Premiere Pro. But when I was watching it in windows media player, there were SOO many cracks and pops it wasn't even funny (especially during parts with an abundancy of noise and parts with rock music). Something is very wrong with that thing. Does anyone know how to fix this or even what the problem is? thanks in advance

[daamon]

Hi ArtOfLosingMFZB,

A few things spring to mind...

1. Try playing the finished project in a different media player. There are loads to choose from.

2. If the end product is destined for TV (VCD, SVCD or DVD) then encode a small clip (a bit that contains the problem audio) to the relevant MPEG and try it out on the TV. Use a re-writeable disc.

3. The source audio may need normalising or reducing in volume. I'm not too hot on audio, but look into audio tools like Audacity or Goldwave. There are others...

4. The site www.wrigleyvideo.com is good for all things Premiere. Might be worth checking out the forums...

Good luck.

[edDV]

alright, after I edited all of my video, and put in all of the music and everything, i exported it to a movie in Adobe Premiere Pro. But when I was watching it in windows media player, there were SOO many cracks and pops it wasn't even funny (especially during parts with an abundancy of noise and parts with rock music). Something is very wrong with that thing. Does anyone know how to fix this or even what the problem is? thanks in advance

What format did you export the project to?
DV, MPeg2, other?

Clearly your PC isn't fast enought to play it in realtime. Don't fret, most can't.

Define your goal. Is this intended for DV storage, or DVD, or computer playback or streaming? You need to define so we can point you to the next step.

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

well, i exported it to DV because I plan on encoding it to DVD using TMPGenc later. and I played the uncut versions after I captured them from the DV cam and they played fine. but after i edited them, the places where I hadn't added any music still had cracks and pops where when I played it before, it sounded fine (on the same player, windows media player). nothing is wrong with the video, just audio. i'll try it in a different media player and I'll test it on my DVD player using SVCD in a bit.

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

well, i just encoded some places that had bad audio into WMV so if anyone wants to see what my problem is then I could send the file to ya (only 3-4 mb). it's really makin me mad cuz there really shouldn't be anything wrong...

[edDV]

Just saw this. OK video is good, problem with audio.

Best way to track the problem is to go backwards in the project until the audio is OK (or do the audio over).

For NTSC DVD, make sure your project setting is 720x480 and audio is 16bit 48KHz uncompressed.

Import any audio to that standard.

For a quick fix for audio levels, expand audio view (arrow down) turn on waveform, right click on audio timeline, select audio options, then audio gain, then smart gain and let it auto adjust level.

You can also enable the red gain rubberband and play with (keyframe) audio levels directly in the waveform display.

Play audio, test encode and see if it is improved.

PS: Remember to render the audio before preview.

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

alright thanks, that may help me. I'll try it later when I have more time but render the audio before preview? could you maybe point me in the direction on how to do that?

but on another note, I have tried some more things and this may give a better understanding of this problem or it may just give me a whole new problem. When I export the movie i go Export - Movie. But i looked in the premiere help files and it says that when I do that, it exports to Windows AVI and not DV AVI. So i tried to play the exported "Windows AVI" movie on another player (J Player) and it couldn't even open it. But it could open regular DV AVI fine. So I looked again in the Adobe Help Files and it said I could get it to DV AVI by going to Export - Export To Tape. But then i actually have to export to a tape! and I don't want that, i just want a regular DV AVI of my project! Can I somehow do this? Can someone please tell me how to if I can? Because I even tried to encode this "Windows AVI" export to VCD using TMPGEnc and it couldn't even read the video. So the final mpg file was completely black (no picture) but the audio was still there and it STILL sounded like crap. So I think the whole problem may just be this whole "Windows AVI" format that it likes to export to (it may be called "Microsoft AVI" but either way it's bad news). So i just need to know how to export to DV AVI. Any help on this would probably make my life, so thanks in advance.

[troyvcd1]

remember as stated before your audio music needs to be at 48k. If you just take music off of a cd it will be at 44.1k and needs to be resampled to 48k before putting into premiere. On exporting your movie make sure all the settings are correct for exporting. Check your audio and video settings. If your exporting to avi it will be the same as a dv avi file and this should work.

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

hmm...well read my last post. It is exporting to AVI yeah but I don't think it's DV AVI because window media player is the only other player that reads it. Now, I used the export to tape feature to see if the crappy audio would occur if I exported it onto tape (which is DV AVI) and when I watched it on my TV, it played fine and the audio sounded great, exactly how I wanted it to sound. So there has gotta be a way to export to DV AVI and get around these errors. am I doing something completely wrong in the settings? because I haven't touched them since I got the program.

[edDV]

alright thanks, that may help me. I'll try it later when I have more time but render the audio before preview? could you maybe point me in the direction on how to do that?

but on another note, I have tried some more things and this may give a better understanding of this problem or it may just give me a whole new problem. When I export the movie i go Export - Movie. But i looked in the premiere help files and it says that when I do that, it exports to Windows AVI and not DV AVI. So i tried to play the exported "Windows AVI" movie on another player (J Player) and it couldn't even open it. But it could open regular DV AVI fine. So I looked again in the Adobe Help Files and it said I could get it to DV AVI by going to Export - Export To Tape. But then i actually have to export to a tape! and I don't want that, i just want a regular DV AVI of my project! Can I somehow do this? Can someone please tell me how to if I can? Because I even tried to encode this "Windows AVI" export to VCD using TMPGEnc and it couldn't even read the video. So the final mpg file was completely black (no picture) but the audio was still there and it STILL sounded like crap. So I think the whole problem may just be this whole "Windows AVI" format that it likes to export to (it may be called "Microsoft AVI" but either way it's bad news). So i just need to know how to export to DV AVI. Any help on this would probably make my life, so thanks in advance.

Under File, "Export Timeline", then "Movie" then look for settings.
The selection of file format for export is there.

[edDV]

You have a built in Mainconcept encoder in Premiere under

"Export Timeline", then "Adobe MPeg Encoder"
From there you can encode the timeline directly to MPeg2

A DV-AVI file is difficult to play in realtime in full resolution on the desktop without hardware acceleration. Best to play it back to the TV through the camcorder. The camcorder has a hardware DV decoder and NTSC encoder.

Alternatively a DV-AVI file can be played with PowerDVD, WinDVD, Nero Showtime, etc. with somewhat limited quality.

[troyvcd1]

I got an email from someone on this topic. You may not have gotten it also. It seems there is a bug in premiere where the audio gets added together and clips when 2 or more tracks are put into a dv avi file. Your best bet is to export to uncompressed avi or what I would suggest is to export your audio separately to a separate wav file.

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

hmm... good idea, i'll probably export the video and audio seperately if I can't get the problem fixed. oh well, as long as I get my project exported at full quality i'll be fine

[daamon]

What are you planning to do with the finished project?

Are you exporting to DV AVI so that can then be encoded for (S)VCD or DVD? If so (and you've already mentioned TMPGEnc), look into frameserving using the Debugmode Frameserver.

It may well bypass your audio problems, save having to export to DV AVI and go straight to encoding from Premiere.