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Edge
8th December 2001, 10:19
Ok. So I've capture a relatively short video clip (not more than 10 minutes) at 720x480 using Huffyuv. File is just about 5 GB in size. I go to Premiere thinking this will be a snap-- merge some video clips together (as well as some still images used for titles and filler) and I'll get the finished product just like that.

Naturally, nothing that SEEMS this simple EVER is.

Instead of working properly, Adobe Premiere 6.0 crashes (hard) with a generic Win32 error dialog explaining that Premiere tried to write to memory it shouldn't have. It happens repeatedly, at the same point, EVERY time. (In this case, it almost always happens at or near frame 6142 of the exporting session.) I've tried doing it on a different system (with WinXP instead of Windows 2000) to no avail (thinking perhaps I had a bad memory module, or perhaps a bad hard drive (pagefile getting corrupted, mebbe?).. but given the repeatability of the situation, it leads me to believe that Premiere 6.0 just has issues with large files (greater than 4 GB anyways).

I've tried using AviSynth to act as plug-in for Premiere, but as was posted by someone else, the AviSynth plug-ins do NOT agree with Premiere 6.0. Instead of showing the frames of video, all you get is black (the audio, however, works fine apperently.. while moving through the timeline I can hear snips of audio that seem in their proper place). So, I tried exporting the timeline as-is, hoping the black frames might be replaced with something meaningful in an exported file.. Whoops. Premiere's inability to deal with the rest of the world rears its head again-- another generic Win32 error dialogue.

Does anyone have ANY advice for using video capped via VirtualDub in Adobe Premiere 6? I've tried everything I can think of, and am convinced that this was a bad idea the whole way around...

Roginator
8th December 2001, 11:04
I haven't tried this myself, but what about saving as a segmented set of files in Virtualdub and then adding them separately into Premiere

Edge
8th December 2001, 20:53
Originally posted by Roginator
I haven't tried this myself, but what about saving as a segmented set of files in Virtualdub and then adding them separately into Premiere
I just tried this.. seems strange, but now Premiere crashes almost immediatly upon trying to open the file. (Instead of getting almost halfway through the file, like the larger file.) Each file is roughly 2 GB in size now (exact size is 1,996,178, the other files vary in size by a few kb), so it shouldn't be a filesize issue for Premiere. Now it simply just doesn't like the files. =)

Very odd. I'm going to poke around the settings in VirtualDub (something I just recently started using) and see if perhaps there's a setting I missed that might have lead to this. If anyone has any other ideas, feel free to reply. =)

Cart
22nd December 2001, 00:45
Have you tried playing with the checkboxes involving RGB decompression in Huffyuv's settings dialog?

Maybe using VFAPI to frameserve the video will be more effective.

-Cart
http://www.geocities.com/lukesvideo/index.html

burly
9th January 2002, 17:12
Hey Edge:

Just got my cap card last night and attempted same test.
Capped video, multisegment less than 1 Gb files, imported into
Premiere 6.0 fine. Added to timeline and played backed fine.
I had 6 files of 700 Mb each.

I am running Win98SE and Premiere 6.01.

Have you had any luck getting this to work.

What I am attempting is capping from my Hi-8 using S-video.
Then use Premiere to edit and frame serve to TMPGENC to create an
SVCD for playback on my APEX DVD.

I have already done this using a digital camcorder and a firewire
card and it works great, but I have alot of old videos that need converting.