Topic: Codecs and Premiere 6

Hey guys! After I have rendered my .avi files using DivX 5.02 the playback seems to be slow in some parts and the audio out of sync. I rendered them using only 1 pass and this has worked in the past and now all of a sudden Im having these problems. Ive also configured it for smooth playback but yet Im still having the aforementioned problems. But the main thing that I cant work out and solve is importing the DivX .avi's into Premiere and I get some of THE slowest playback on the monitor and overall REALLY slow performance in when it comes to editing in Premiere.

"You don't know how paralysing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter: you can't do a thing." - Vincent Van Gogh

Irony of ironies, I hardly ever mess with video anymore yet I'm rendering a 22 minute movie using the same codec right now.

Hopefully I don't have the same problem, actually I recall doing the same thing about a month ago maybe with divx5.02 anf everything went fine then. I'll let you know what happens with this one.

One question I have for you, have you installed WinMedia9 codecs recently? I did and I watched a few videos that were out of synch after that like you said. Hopefully it's a coincidence, this render should tell me...

Jason

I... have yet to to video for the web... I want to... its just that... rendering is boring.

Please let me know how it goes as I have been wondering about such things.

                                   

boring ya, I have to step away from the computer when it's rendering for fear that Premiere will crash if I do anything while it's rendering. anybody else think Premiere is an unstable piece of crap? Lot better o na new computer with half a gig of RAM and 533 bus tho I must say. Back using 5 or 6 on a machine with 133 bus it would die all the time, no it just hangs alittle now and then, and an occassional loss of work crash

anyway, not hijacking your thread luxo, just bored waiting for this movie to finish cookin =)

Jason

Italics, original post that was nullified by edit: rendered perfectly, well, exactly as I put it together anyhow Are you sure your timeline is good and synched? As far as importing divx clips into the timeline, I rarely do that, sometimes I'll take a compressed clip and compress it further but normally I work with uncompressed AVIs.

I'd suggest working with raw video on the timeline everytime if you're doin any editing. Batch capture, save your project and batch list, then you can dispose of the project to free up hardrive space, then bring it all back again from tape if need be.

Hope something in all this crap helped a little.

EDIT : OOPS ok, I'm playing this now on a win2K with WMP6.4 and I'm getting the same trouble you're talking about. Can you tell me what OS and player you're using when you're getting the bad results? The machine I was viewing this on successfully was XP with WMP8.
EDIT : AGAIN I went ahead and installed the divX player on the win2K machine and it plays fine though that. 6.4 must not be capable, is that the player you're using?

Jason

[This message has been edited by JKMabry (edited 01-19-2003).]

Hey dude. Not sure if I have installed WinMedia9 codecs, there are ALL sorts of codecs on this damn computer. LOL @ standing away from the computer while rendering, Im like that as well. I think its got something to do with rendering be asceptible to jinxes or magnetic energy (I swear I emanate ALOT of that stuff and thats why things bugger up on me! ) Thank God this only happens now and again, rendering has its days I guess. I think Premiere CAN be an unstable piece of crap, but as my IT teacher once said, "Its not the computer, its the user"

ATM, Im actually recompressing (this will take a while for me to explain) the footage I previously did. To make things easier Ill do it in point form.
1. Original .avi's are compressed to Widescreen PAL 29frames using DivX 5.02. When recently played back there is slow playback and out of sync audio. This being to MUCH frustration.
2. These compressed files are then imported into Premiere AGAIN. The overall performance, as stated at start of topic, is REALLY slow playback and editing performance.
3. These .avi's are being compressed using DivX ;-) MPEG4 Fast Motion and overall result is spot on at the moment. Plus performance in Premiere is fine as well.

The specs of the my comp Im doing this one, as you asked, are Win Media Player 8 in WinXP Pro. I had the bad results and the good results all in this player so I think its all to do with codec and footage. DivX Player 2.0 Alpha plays my latest files ok except sound is lacking. So Im just sticking with Media Player. Bloody technical shit, some things are SO fickle.

"You don't know how paralysing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter: you can't do a thing." - Vincent Van Gogh

I'm wondering if this doesn't have to do with the size of the movie here (and network traffic). Like I said I did a movie a month ago maybe and it was fine, but it was smallish (if I recall it ended up at 30ish MB). This movie is 22+ minutes and 720x480. It runs different everytime I play it on the Win2k 500mhz/256RAM machine, mostly badly, even through the player I said was working ok (the divX alpha2.o playa). Seems that network traffic in has a big effect on how it plays.

I think I'm going to stay away from the new divX codec for big movies.

Jason