How do I get video out of premiere, and into avisynth?

[Blue_MiSfit]

So yeah..

I'm messing around with Premiere Pro 2, and have shot some nice 24p footage with a Panasonic DVX-100. I threw together a stupid little edit, lots of clips of the beach, waves etc...

I want to get this into an output file - either without re-encoding, or going lossless. I want to then frameserve this output file to MeGUI or VirtualDub using AviSynth.

When I export DV, the framerate gets messed up, and I get a 29.97 clip, not a 23.976. I think it was also interlaced. Bad.

I can export to lossless using ffdshow VFW, and lossless jpeg looks ok, but every couple frames there is garbage. So that is not an option. I tried Debug Mode's Frameserver, which is supposed to serve AVIs, but it doesnt seem to work correctly with 2.0. Going straight to XviD doesn't work either.

How can I get the video out, maintaining 24p?? Is there anything short of exporting uncompressed YV12???

Thanks
~MiSfit

[krisq]

try this excellent frameserver for premiere. DebugMode Frameserver (http://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/)

[Blue_MiSfit]

I tried that, but it seems to have some problems with 2.0.

Have you tried it with Premiere Pro 2.0??

[krisq]

no, sorry. I'm working on 1.5 :(

[check]

are you sure every frame is breaking? check by stepping through frame by frame, it might be artifacts caused by the CPU not being fast enough to decode in realtime.
If not, I'd guess the problem is lying with the raw video output that premiere is handing to the encoder, or with your version of ffdshow. It might be worth updating ffdshow (x264.nl has nice builds) and playing around with output options.
If you have the space, uncompressed video is always an option....

[Blue_MiSfit]

i have the may 26 2006 ffdshow build, so i'm pretty sure that's not the issue.

Installed huffyuv (not inside ffdshow, the real codec), and tried that, no go. i see no video when I try to play the output file in vlc or mpc.

I tried uncompressed, and this didnt work either, avisynth says unsupported fourcc, which apparently was "v210"

Tried mjpeg again, and it seems to work, but this time crashes the viewing app after just a couple frames (tried mpc and vdub with ffdshow, same results, and VLC shows nothing)

If I output DV, I could probably do some crazy pulldown to get it back to 24p, just not sure what the script would be...

[emersk]

Debugmode frameserver works well with premiere pro 2.0 . I frame serve to virtualdub 1.6.16.

I can get great de-interlaced divx 6 output that way. By contrast exporting with Premiere 2.0 from mpeg2 to h264 using mainconcept's plugin for premiere results in no de-interlacing.