Problem exporting to DivX with Premiere

[Dark-Rayden]

It's almost everytime the better way to do a lossless encoding first and then a encode in the format you need.
You should encode your project either in lossless AVI or as Quicktime with setting 'Animation' or 'None'.
Then encode this file to the thing you need.

If you have to less space ... bummer, you should have known in the first: serious video editing needs hardrive space ...

[AtomAndBrad]

Honestly, in all of my experiences, Premiere and DivX/XviD simply do not get along, either exporting or importing. If HD space is an issue however, one solution could be to export and encode in chunks. Meaning:

1) Set your work area for the first minute only
2) Export that in Lossless
3) Take that into VDM and encode to DivX
4) Delete the Lossless encode
5) Repeat steps 1-4 for each minute of your video until you have all of your minute long DivX chunks. When you name your files, name them the same as the first segment, but adding numbers to the end (like segment01, segment02, etc.)
6) In VDM, open up your first segment
7) Go to File > Append Segment, then choose your 2nd segment, and check the "Autodetect additional segments by filename". Assuming that it's the same resolution, frame rate, codec, and bitrate method (Constant Bitrate is the best for this method), then the files will just append together
8) Scrub through your whole video to make sure it all appended correctly and in the right order.
9) Under the Video menu, select Direct Stream Copy
10) Go to File > Save As, and save your final appended DivX movie.

Now, since you said you had VDM, I'm assuming you're on Windows. Thusly, I'd also ask, what (if any) lossess compression codecs are you using? If you're just exporting Uncompressed RGB, then yeah a longer film is going to be gigantic, especially if you're working in HD. Thusly I would suggest trying out either Huffyuv (http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv-2.1.1.zip) or Lagarith (http://lags.leetcode.net/Lagarith_1313.zip). Both offer lossless compression. Lagarith will give you smaller file sizes than Huffyuv, but it does decode a bit slower, but if HD space is your primary concern, than I'd say go with that. I generally use Huffyuv for all of my encodes since it also decodes really fast.

Hope this helps :)

[lehmi]

from my experience uncompressed avi is the only format you should use with Premiere. It's the fastest for editing and the only one which makes sense when exporting (divx becomes 3 times as big, and lots of frame errors etc.).

You should use virtual dub to compress the avi to a an avi of your choice, and maybe sorenson squeeze if you go the quicktime route.


-alex

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