x264 encoding in Adobe Premiere CS2?

[Deinorius]

Hi, I'm working at my university for some video captures.

Up today I did by cutting with Premiere, exporting with Lagarith and then encoding with x264 and Nero Digital using Batch Files.

So my question. Is there any possibility to use x264 directly in Premiere? I have still the possibility for Nero Digital but I like x264 much more because of crf. The quality is better with smaller filesize. And I can encode audio with the quality setting instead of cbr.

[Dark Shikari]

I don't know of any way to do so unless there's a program that lets you frameserve directly out of Premiere.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Yes there is. Debugmode Frameserver. Look into it, it's VERY useful. It creates a dummy AVI that can be processed however you want.

Not sure it would be compatible with 2 pass encoding - but you're most interested in CRF, so that shouldn't be a problem. VirtualDub would probably be the easiest way to do it!

~MiSfit

[Deinorius]

Why should be VDM the easiest way?

I will search for this Debugmode Frameserver, let's hope it's the way I'm searching for.

Could there be a problem because it doesn't support YV12? I have to test, if there is a difference in filesize between these two encoding methods.

[fields_g]

I didn't use CS2, but do have CS3 Master Suite. There is the export to Adobe Media encoder, which contains Mainconcept's H.264 encoder.

I think it was added in CS3, but thought I'd mention it!

[Deinorius]

Well to be honest, it's Pro 2.0 not CS2 (if there exists a CS2 Version anyway). Just remembered.

I don't need Mainconcepts Encoder because...
1. I could use Nero Encoder
2. I like the use of crf. Does any other encoder have such a feature?

[fields_g]

Agreed.... I'm so happy that flash is moving to h.264 so that I can be a little more selective of how much Adobe needs to be in my workflow. I much rather use x264 myself.

I'll have to look into the Debugmode Frameserver.

[MasterNobody]

Deinorius
If the AVI container is not problem (and losing few last frames if you use B-Frames or multithreading) than you may try x264vfw (http://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/)

[Deinorius]

@MasterNobody
Even with that I have to use batch files for sound and muxing.

But you're right, it would be the easiest way for encoding, but I don't want to use this way. It's just not actual anymore.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

You can remux from AVI files to MKV or MP4 at any time:
* MKVtoolnix reads H.264 streams directly from AVI and writes them to MKV container.
* MP4Box needs two steps: First extract H.264 stream from AVI, then mux it to MP4.