Premiere Pro 2 Creates Random Garbage On Exported AVIs

[Maiko Herajin]

Hi all, I'm using Premiere Pro 2, and have a fairly severe problem. Having ripped the content out of a DVD, and made sure the resulting video was playable, I imported it into Premiere, and made a short clip to test it out. When I exported the movie to huffyuv, however, the resulting movie had strange noise in it. Usually random lines of color at the top of the video for one frame, occurring randomly every 5 seconds or so.

This random noise seemed to happen in a different fashion no matter what input / output format I chose for the AVIs. Setting the output to lagrith resulted in more solid color bands, and setting it to Xvid caused... a condition I could only describe as the video "having no keyframes." You could still see the video, but everything was grey and embossed looking. The only time I got a clean export was when I exported the video with no compression at all, which simply won't do.

This seemed to happen regardless of the settings I used, and regardless of the size / codec used to encode the original clip. Attached is an example of the problem I'm seeing.

[krisq]

Yeah, I have something similiar when I try to export to lag or huffy :(. Adobe and their crappy vfw support, eh? I've manage to overcome this by installing DebugMode Frameserver (http://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/), frameserve my output to virtualdub and from there, to lagarith or huffyuv. It's slightly inconvenient but it works for me. :)

[Maiko Herajin]

I've manage to overcome this by installing DebugMode Frameserver, frameserve my output to virtualdub and from there, to lagarith or huffyuv.

Indeed, that does seem to work for me too. It's nice to be able to use avisynth scripts straight off of there too.

Still, it's absolutely outrageous that a program that has been out for a year, costs $900 and is labeled 'pro' should have such a huge flaw in it. Anybody at Adobe ever heard of a patch?

[Blue_MiSfit]

Yeah I finally got debugmode working. It's a VERY nice piece of code.

[odie5533]

It took me a few minutes to realize this, but when installing the DebugMode Framserver, you must set the plugin directory for Premiere Pro to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0\Plug-ins\en_US.

A few months back I spent about 10 hours trying to get the video I worked on out of Premiere. I finally gave up, and have since lost that video I worked on because I simply couldn't get it out of Premiere. I came back to Premiere just yesterday and made another video. Similar problems arose when exporting: HuffYUV gives me artifacts, XviD won't playback, uncompressed avi freezes my computer, Premiere dies when trying to save Lagarith, Cinepac goes too slow, HuffYUV only likes YUY2 formats, Premiere doesn't like YUY2 format, Microsoft DV AVI won't playback on my pc, etc, etc, etc. Each of these trials took around 20 minutes each render time, so the hours quickly added up.

DebugMode Framserver worked the first time. After installing it, everything just starts working. I'm able to save my movie as HuffYUV or Lagarith perfectly, and I don't notice much (if any) of a decrease in render time. Adobe should hire the guy that wrote this thing to fix their exporter because apparently they can't do it themselves.