Premiere Export Problems...

[TIbrO]

Hey gang. Usually I am on the helping end, but today I require the help. Last night I was trying to export my first DVD quality music video. A friend and I shot the video and put it to some music, edited it in Premiere, blah blah... Used the DVD resolution of 720x480, but made it NTSC Film framerate of 23.98fps. I got Panasonic MPEG Encoder Plugin 2.51, which works fine when I export to normal NTSC VCD quality and settings, but last night, when I tried to export with it, it would always get to frame 2661 out of almost 7000 frames... then it tells me in an error message that "Your bitrate or VBV buffer size is too small." Then I hit OK and it brings up another error that says "Error (Disk Full?)" with another OK button... I have 16GB free according to the Premiere export progress dialog, and I am on Windows NT kernel, so no 4GB limit, and the file comes out as 37MB anyway. Anyway, that's the MPEG-1 export problem I am having.

The next export problem I have is that when I try to export to DivX MPEG-4, the video finishes rendering and being exported to AVI, but when I play the AVI, it's upside down! What gives? I've never had this happen until now, but then again, I've never used such high resolutions... The reason I use this high of resolution now is because I started putting my sutdio logo on it, and at 352x240 it looks horrible, and so does other text.

Anyone have any ideas why DivX is upside down and MPEG-1 won't even finish? I was hoping to come across a solution besides using AVISynth and TMPGEnc to export. If no solution comes up, I will just have to use TMPGEnc to encode with. But that wouldn't fix my DivX being upside down...

[TIbrO]

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[TOMMO]

Tibro - Sorry I cannot help you> However you are not alone. XING Encoder did the same - So I had to ditch it. My copy of Panasonic Encoder kept reporting that ti could not find the libaries. So I had to ditch them and stick with TEMPEnc and AVISYNTH. Not that its the end of the world - just really bugged me why it should suddenly start happening and suddenly tweo useful tools are US.

[TIbrO]

Damn... That's not what I wanted to hear. Oh well... So no one knows what's up with the upside down DivX encode either, eh? And Panasonic is just being ghetto now, even though it costs money... Pfff... good thing I warezed it, or else I would be pissed off. Suck that Panasonic, for making shitty products.

[tinycorkscrew]

TIbrO -

I don't know what OS you're using makes a difference, but I've gotten upside-down playback of DivX before when I used Win9x. If you have the Angel Potion codec installed on your computer, that could be a cause. Uninstall it and reinstall the proper DivX codec. Another possibility is that hardware acceleration is disabled in your display settings. Go to Control Panel -> Display -> Advanced and adjust the settings to see if it makes a difference.

Don't have a clue about the MPEG export. I used to use Panasonic w/ Premiere, but I've found that exporting to avisynth and encoding with TMPGEnc gives better results.

[TIbrO]

Aha! I have found the solution... You see, I use a Matrox Marvel G400-TV card, and there seems to be a known bug, which is the one I just found out about, that when you use a resolution for a DivX AVI that is not a multiple of 32 pixels in width, your hardware overlay is not used, so you get choppy playback and possibly other issues, such as mine, upside down playback. When I read that at matroxusers.com, I got something called DivXG400, which is a patch you install that adds black borders to videos that are not a multiple of 32 pixels in width, so that they end up being a multiple of 32 pixels wide, enabling the hardware overlay and hence fixing your playback problems. It says in the readme that DivXG400 is not only limited to use on Matrox G400 cards, but to every card. They just named it that because the G400 card was the first card they noticed the bad playback with. So if you ever have a DivX AVI that plays upside down or just more choppy than it should for DivX, you need the DivXG400 patch.

By the way, thanks to everyone who read my post and attempted to help me. And also, I never use AngelPotion codec... only the codecs distributed with the Tsunami pack.