Export AVI type-2 with Premiere Pro 1.5

[bledking]

This is probably a noob question but I can't find the answer anywhere.

In Premiere, I'm trying to export a movie in lossless avi to re-encode it in Xvid with vdub because for some reason, Premiere hangs when I try to export a movie in Xvid. Anyway, I'm using HuffYUV codec for the lossless avi and it creates a 2.3gb file. This file crashes everything I try to open it with, including vdub, and I've heard it's because normal avi can't be larger than 2gb.

So, I heard that I need to save it as a Type-2 AVI but I have no clue on how to do this and all I can find about type-1 and type-2 stuff is concerning DV video

Would greatly appreciate any help..

[daamon]

Hi bledking,

Welcome to the forums.

Export it as Microsoft DV AVI. Although this is not lossless, it is still an excellent codec and will be absolutely fine for converting to Xvid in VirtualDub.

If you specifically need Type-2 DV AVI, and you feel it isn't (though it should be) you can use the DV Type 1 to DV Type 2 Converter tool. But I believe that using Microsoft DV AVI will give you Type-2 DV AVI.

[bledking]

That seemed to work fine but the problem is that I can't save DV AVI in anything else but 720x480. It's not the 4:3 ratio of my original video

[daamon]

...but the problem is that I can't save DV AVI in anything else but 720x480. It's not the 4:3 ratio of my original video

DV AVI is constrained to 720 x 480 / 576 (NTSC / PAL), so no surprises you can't change the resolution.

What is your source footage that's in 4:3 ratio?

[bledking]

It's a video captured with Fraps from a game in 4:3 640x480

[daamon]

OK. I've only used Fraps very briefly, and that was a while ago. However, I do remember that I couldn't capture to DV AVI, so I had to go for uncompressed and use that in Premiere. But I wanted DV AVI as the end product so no problems.

I wonder - how about, instead of selecting NTSC in Premiere, if you create "Custom" project settings, and set it to work with a resolution of 640 x 480 and then try to save to Xvid?

Try it on a sample (short) clip...

The other thing to investigate is the 2Gb max AVI thing. DV AVI is around 13.5Gb per hour - so a 2Gb limit would mean that DV AVI can only be clips of around 9 minutes - and I've had DV AVI clips of around 30 minutes with no problem.

If you've got enough disc space, try exporting from Premiere to uncompressed AVI (called Microsoft AVI in Premiere). See if VirtualDub will open that...