Video editing voes

[Pet Terry]

Hello, I'm editing a video.

Except that I haven't got started yet because Adobe Premiere Pro doesn't behave. I have a bunch of videos that I converted to XviD-format because otherwise I would have ran out of harddrive space. Premiere doesn't seem to like XviDs though. Everything else works fine except the preview image and just imagine how hard it is to try and edit a video if the preview doesn't work. Even sound works ok.

I would use uncompressed AVIs, but my harddrive space is limited. I tried some other formats too, but encountered the same problem. And converting to some formats took way too long even if the file size would have been okay (I'm using VirtualDub to convert, by the way).

So I'm stumped now. Converting ~300 video clips to XviD took a while and that was the fastest format to convert to. Video and sound quality were fine and would have suited my needs very well, but damn Premiere just had to mess it all up.

Please help me, my life may depend on it.

[GarageGothic]

Not sure if it is helpful, but I found this at:
http://forum.digital-digest.com/archive/index.php/t-51777.html

"Change the fourCC code of the XviD file to "DIVX" instead of "XVID""

[Pet Terry]

Wheeeeeee, it works now. Thanks a bunch, GG! I actually did Google, but found some random forum thread where someone only said that XviD won't work in Premiere, period.

[Pet Terry]

Double post, sue me if you want.

I have this old project file which is a mess, however, there is this neat sequence which I'd like to use in the new project. I tried to delete all the imported video clips from the old project file (I was planning to import them again and organize them better so that I could just use the old project file to create the new project), but Premiere also deleted everything from the timeline so that didn't work. I also tried to simply copy the neat sequence from the timeline to the new project file, but no, that didn't work either.

Now what? I could simply export the sequence in AVI and then import it to the new project, but I'd rather if the sequence wasn't in one piece in case I need to tweak it later on.

(I was hoping I would get this project nicely started tonight, but Premiere has managed to amaze me so many times already. I could have spend the little of spare time I have to something way more productive. Shame on you, Adobe.)

E D I T :
This is getting ridiculous. I went for the export to AVI -route after all... but now the exporting process stops when it's about halfway through, crashing Premiere. What does Adobe have against me?

[magintz]

Anyone with a camera, adobe premier, adobe photoshop and a spare afternoon MUST follow this guide to the 'T'!

http://www.alienryderflex.com/rotoscope/

[AJA]

Anyone with a camera, adobe premier, adobe photoshop and a spare afternoon MUST follow this guide to the 'T'!

http://www.alienryderflex.com/rotoscope/

This is an old one:
http://www.serpentpictures.com/videot/trailerit/dfr_teaser_large.mov
And we used After Effects for rotoscoping.

This is getting ridiculous. I went for the export to AVI -route after all... but now the exporting process stops when it's about halfway through, crashing Premiere. What does Adobe have against me?

Well, divx and xvid aren't very good for editing purposes. That might be the reason. MJPEG is an ok choice if you don't have much free space and the jpg artefacts (depends on the quality, obviously) aren't a problem. Can't help you more than that, sorry.