Problems getting a working codec in Adobe Premiere Pro

[chrisneal]

Hello all.

I've spent my 5 day waiting period doing lots of reading and trying different things, but unfortunately I'm still stuck. (I like the 5 day deal, btw, I did learn alot!)

My history:
I have a personal .vob file from a ripped dvd that I want to edit in PPro. I figured out through this forum to use VirtualDubMod to convert the .VOBs to .AVIs. I have tried numerous codecs, (Cinepak, MSU Lossless, Alparysoft, Huffyuv) before finally settling on Alparysoft, which seemed to produce the highest quality video, excellent compression, and very reasonable file sizes.

My problem:
When I import my AVI into PPro, the Program Monitor is all black :( The clip plays fine in the Source Monitor, and I get audio in the Program Monitor, but no video. The same AVI plays fine in Windows Media player.

I'm not sure if it is a Premiere issue, a codec issue, the way I encoded it via VirtualDubMod, or something else altogether!

One answer to my problem is "find another codec that works". I've been encoding to my heart's content for about a week now, and I'd really like to get the Alparysoft one working if at all possible. :)

Has anyone encountered this problem before?

I've actually got the Alparysoft devs looking at it too on their forums, and the Adobe forums said, "Use a DV codec." ...very helpful :)

Anyway, enough rambling. If I can provide any more information, I would be happy to.

Thank you in advance for your time.
Chris

[killingspree]

i know my answer doesn't deal with the original problem at hand, but since i know PPro is very picky about video codecs, why don't you just use a frameserving method? of course those aren't the easiest once either, but it'll no doubt save you quite some diskspace and also the extra encoding step...

the problem is that you can not directly open avs (avisynth script files) in ppro, but you have to create a fake avi... i'd recommend the ffdshow method. it's worked extremely well for me in connection with premiere...

an alternative would be the good ole vfapi frameserver, which might even be more compatible, but is quite a bit slower.

hth
steVe

[chrisneal]

Hi Steve,

Thank you for the reply :)
I actually found out why the Alparysoft codec was giving me problems, and, not surprisingly, it was user error...

I was compressing in YV12 format instead of RGB24...oops :)
I tried the same codec in ImTOO DVD Ripper, and it worked fine, so then I checked the Alparysoft log file that gets created and saw that was different.

I'm good to go for now :)
Thank you for all your help!

Chris